1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910424566703321

Autore

Achilli Alessandro

Titolo

La lirica di Vasyl'Stus : modernismo e intertestualità poetica nell'Ucraina del secondo Novecento / / Alessandro Achilli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici ; ; 41

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Vasyl’ Stus's (1938-1985) poetry is one of the richest and most complex chapters in the literary history of late Soviet Ukraine. His poems are not only born of the author’s talent, but also of his erudition and deep cultural awareness; Stus’s poetry eloquently shows the presence of a significant Modernist trend in the literature of the Ukrainian underground during the Age of Economic stagnation. Stus's Modernism is the ideal evolution of the Ukrainian poetic culture of the first decades of the century, and develops thanks to an intense intertextual dialogue with the European literature. Stus’s reception of Russian and German poetry, in addition to becoming the model for nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ukrainian poetry, proves fundamental to fully understand his work’s literary palimpsest, which this volume offers a comprehensive reading of, from the early stages to the maturity’s collections.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785064803321

Autore

Gordon Deborah (Deborah M.)

Titolo

Ant encounters [[electronic resource] ] : interaction networks and colony behavior / / Deborah M. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-64507-2

9786612645075

1-4008-3544-5

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Primers in complex systems

Disciplina

595.79/61782

Soggetti

Ants - Behavior

Insect societies

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Ant Colony as a Complex System -- 2 Colony Organization -- 3 Interaction Networks -- 4 Colony Size -- 5 Relations with Neighbors -- 6 Ant Evolution -- 7 Modeling Ant Behavior -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How do ant colonies get anything done, when no one is in charge? An ant colony operates without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do based on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions--resulting in a dynamic network that coordinates the functions of the colony. Ant Encounters provides a revealing and accessible look into ant behavior from this complex systems perspective. Focusing on the moment-to-moment behavior of ant colonies, Deborah Gordon investigates the role of interaction networks in regulating colony behavior and relations among ant colonies. She shows how ant behavior within and between colonies arises from local interactions of individuals, and how interaction networks develop as a colony grows older and larger. The more rapidly ants react to their encounters, the more sensitively the entire colony responds to changing conditions. Gordon explores whether such reactive networks help a colony to survive and reproduce, how natural selection shapes colony networks,



and how these structures compare to other analogous complex systems. Ant Encounters sheds light on the organizational behavior, ecology, and evolution of these diverse and ubiquitous social insects.