1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455908803321

Autore

Owen Luisa Lang <1935->

Titolo

Casualty of war [[electronic resource] ] : a childhood remembered / / by Luisa Lang Owen ; foreword by Charles M. Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-299-05230-4

1-60344-702-4

1-58544-990-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Eastern European studies ; ; no. 18

Disciplina

949.702

Soggetti

Germans - Yugoslavia

Genocide - Yugoslavia

Electronic books.

Yugoslavia History 1945-1980

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. xxi-xxiv).

Nota di contenuto

""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""MAPS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""CHAPTER 2""; ""CHAPTER 3""; ""CHAPTER 4""; ""CHAPTER 5""; ""CHAPTER 6""; ""CHAPTER 7""; ""CHAPTER 8""; ""CHAPTER 9""; ""CHAPTER 10""; ""CHAPTER 11""; ""CHAPTER 12""; ""CHAPTER 13""; ""CHAPTER 14""; ""CHAPTER 15""; ""CHAPTER 16""; ""EPILOGUE""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416465303321

Autore

Aribaud Christine

Titolo

Destins d’étoffes : Usages, ravaudages et réemplois des textiles sacrés (XIVe - XXe siècle) / / Christine Aribaud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toulouse, : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2020

ISBN

2-8107-1007-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Albert-LlorcaMarlène

AribaudChristine

BédatIsabelle

BerthodBernard

DesrosiersSophie

FonquernieLaurent

GirardAlain

JubalIsabelle

LaurentFrançoise

OzolineAnastasia

PiponnierFrançoise

SireMarie-Anne

ValantinFlorence

Soggetti

Arts &amp; Humanities

Medieval &amp; Renaissance Studies

textile

religion

profane

sacré

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Organisées par l’Association Française pour l’Étude du Textiles (AFET) et l’axe Religion – Culture – Pouvoir du Laboratoire de recherche FRAMESPA (Université Toulouse 2), ces journées d’étude (Toulouse,



1999) ont été consacrées à l’ob­servation et l’analyse des pratiques du réemploi et du ravaudage, aussi fréquentes que reconnues dans l’histoire des textiles du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Le contexte dévotionnel et liturgique dans lequel renaissent certains textiles à une seconde vie pose des problèmes importants : le passage du profane au sacré et vice versa, la pérennité de leurs usages primitifs, dont les traces sont plus ou moins visibles ou identi­fiables, leur sacralisation et, inévitablement leur profanation. Les auteurs, anthropologues, archéologues, conservateurs de musées, his­toriens, historiens de l’art ou restaurateurs se sont interrogés sur les rai­sons de ces procédés, sur leurs enjeux, et le simple fait que l’Église catholique ait eu à statuer régulièrement sur ces réemplois en signale l’importance et prouve que la question dépasse très largement des pro­blèmes de nature couturière voire d’économie domestique.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813432603321

Autore

Roderick David

Titolo

The Americans / / David Roderick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8229-8026-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 pages)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

821.008

Soggetti

English poetry

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Sommario/riassunto

David Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question:



What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build--between countries, between each other--Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire.