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UNISA996209294803316 |
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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture / / edited by Francis O'Gorman [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
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1-139-80182-1 |
1-139-00281-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge companions to culture |
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Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century |
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 |
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century |
Great Britain Civilization 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-305) and index. |
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Science and Culture / Bernard Lightman -- Technology / Nicholas Daly -- Economics and business / Timothy Alborn -- War 80 / Edward M. Spiers -- Music / Ruth A. Solie -- Theater / Katherine Newey -- Popular Culture / Dennis Denisoff -- Satirical print culture / John Strachan -- Journalism / Matthew Rubery -- Art / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Domestic arts / Nicola Humble -- Victorian literary theory / Anna Maria Jones -- The dead / Francis O'Gorman -- Remembering the Victorians / Samantha Matthews. |
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The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable |
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resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours. |
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UNINA9910786140703321 |
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Autore |
Marinković Ranko <1913-2001.> |
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Cyclops [[electronic resource] /] / Ranko Marinkovic, ; translated by Vlada Stojiljkovic, ; edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010 |
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1-299-46370-3 |
0-300-16884-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (768 p.) |
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A Margellos world republic of letters book |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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StojiljkovicVlada <1938-> |
Elias-BursacEllen |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Yugoslavia |
Zagreb (Croatia) Fiction |
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Originally published in Serbo-Croatian as: Kiklop. |
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Front matter -- INTRODUCTION -- CYCLOPS. Teil 1 -- CYCLOPS. Teil 2 -- AUTHOR INFORMATION |
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In his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to avoid fighting in the front lines of World War II. As he wanders the streets of Zagreb in a near-hallucinatory state of paranoia and malnourishment, Melkior encounters a colorful circus of characters-fortune-tellers, shamans, actors, prostitutes, bohemians, and café intellectuals-all living in a fragile dream of a society about to be changed forever. A seminal work of postwar Eastern European literature, Cyclops reveals a little-known perspective on World War II from within the former Yugoslavia, one that has never before been available to an English-speaking audience. Vlada Stojiljkovic's able translation, improved by |
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Ellen Elias-Bursac's insightful editing, preserves the striking brilliance of this riotously funny and densely allusive text. Along Melkior's journey Cyclops satirizes both the delusions of the righteous military officials who feed the national bloodlust as well as the wayward intellectuals who believe themselves to be above the unpleasant realities of international conflict. Through Stojiljkovic's clear-eyed translation, Melkior's peregrinations reveal how history happens and how the individual consciousness is swept up in the tide of political events, and this is accomplished in a mode that will resonate with readers of Charles Simic, Aleksandr Hemon, and Kundera. |
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UNINA9910164920303321 |
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Autore |
Wainwright Michael |
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Titolo |
Game Theory and Postwar American Literature / / by Michael Wainwright |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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LIT000000LIT004020LIT006000 |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Political science |
Literature |
Fiction |
Game theory |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
Political Science |
Fiction Literature |
Game Theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: -- Preface1. On Preliminary |
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Matters2. On Game Theory, the Art of Literature, and the Stag Hunt3. On the Postwar Strategic Background, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and In Cold Blood4. On Chicken in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye5. On Countercultural Chicken in Fahrenheit 451 and A Raisin in the Sun6. On Coldblooded Chicken in In Cold Blood7. On Called Bluff in Capote, Deadlock in Twain, and Bully in FaulknerWorks CitedIndex. |
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If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary hermeneutics, then critics must be able to apply its models to texts written without a working knowledge of von Neumann's discipline in mind. Reading such iconic novels as Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye from the perspective of the four most frequently encountered coordination problems - the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock, Game Theory and Postwar American Literature illustrates the significant contribution of mathematical models to literary interpretation. The interdisciplinary approach of this book contributes to an understanding of the historical, political, and social contexts that surround the texts produced in the post-Cold War years, as well as providing a comprehensive model of joining game theory and literary criticism. |
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