1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910287937303321

Autore

Price Bronwen

Titolo

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis ; : new interdisciplinary essays / / Bronwen Price, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2003

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

©2002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Texts in culture

Disciplina

824.3

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. Standing at the threshold of early modern culture, this key text incorporates the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Contributors consider the book's use of rhetoric, its narrative contexts, its political and ethical implications, its relation to the natural knowledge of the period, and the function of miracles in New Atlantan society. The politics of colonialism and Jewish toleration, its complex representation of gender, and the role and politics of censorship are also explored. This volume will be the ideal companion to Bacon's The New Atlantis and for all students of literature, politics, history, cultural history and history of science.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910213818803321

Autore

Yancey Kathleen Blake <1950->

Titolo

Reflection in the writing classroom / / Kathleen Blake Yancey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, UT, : Utah State University Press, 1998

ISBN

9780874213140

0874213142

9780585027654

058502765X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/07

808.04207

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching

Reflection (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

On reflection -- Reflection-in-action -- Constructive reflection -- Reflection-in-presentation -- Reflective reading, reflective responding -- Reflection and the writing course -- Reflection and assessment -- Literacy and the curriculum -- Reflective texts, reflective writers.

Sommario/riassunto

Yancey explores reflection as a promising body of practice and  inquiry in the writing classroom. Yancey develops a line of research  based on concepts of philosopher Donald Schon and others involving the  role of deliberative reflection in classroom contexts. Developing the  concepts of reflection-in-action, constructive reflection, and  reflection-in-presentation, she offers a structure for discussing how  reflection operates as students compose individual pieces of writing, as  they progress through successive writings, and as they deliberately  review a compiled body of their work-