The avian brood parasites [[electronic resource] ] : deception at the nest / / Paul A. Johnsgard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450780103321
• Autore: Johnsgard Paul A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 1-280-52922-9; 9786610529223; 0-19-535499-0; 1-4294-1568-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Disciplina: 598.2556
• Soggetti: Parasitic birds; Brood parasites; Electronic books.
• 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. 379-396) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 An Overview of Brood Parasitism; 2 Eco-morphology and Interspecific Mimicry; 3 Behavioral and Reproductive Ecology; 4 Breeding Behavior; 5 Host Retaliation: The Co-evolutionary Arms Race; 6 Waterfowl (Family Anatidae); 7 Honeyguides (Family Indicatoridae); 8 Old World Cuckoos (Family Cuculidae); 9 American Ground-cuckoos (Family Neomorphidae); 10 African Parasitic Finches (Family Passeridae); 11 Parasitic Cowbirds (Tribe Icterini); Appendixes; A: Glossary; B: Latin Names of Birds Mentioned in the Text; References; Taxonomic Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; OP; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites - those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species - and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation.

Conrad, language, and narrative / / Michael Greaney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960021903321
• Autore: Greaney Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12457-3; 0-521-12084-5; 0-511-30383-1; 0-511-15526-3; 0-511-11987-9; 1-280-16239-2; 0-511-04448-8; 0-511-48510-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.912
• Soggetti: Fiction - Technique; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Speech Communities. 1. 'The realm of living speech': Conrad and oral community. 2. 'Murder by language': 'Falk' and Victory. 3. 'Drawing-room voices': language and space in The Arrow of Gold -- pt. II. Marlow. 4. Modernist storytelling: 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness'. 5. The scandals of Lord Jim. 6. The gender of Chance -- pt. III. Political Communities. 7. Nostromo and anecdotal history. 8. Linguistic dystopia: The Secret Agent. 9. 'Gossip tales, suspicions': language and paranoia in Under Western Eyes.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur ; Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.