1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457154703321

Autore

Tsai Robert L. <1971->

Titolo

Eloquence and reason [[electronic resource] ] : creating a First Amendment culture / / Robert L. Tsai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-35159-1

9786612351594

0-300-15187-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 198 p.))

Disciplina

342.7308/53

Soggetti

Freedom of speech - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Freedom as a Matter of Faith -- 2. Metaphor and Community -- 3. Linguistic Transformation -- 4. Political Pathways -- 5. War and Syntax -- 6. Adjudication as Facilitation -- Coda -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative book presents a theory of the First Amendment's development. During the twentieth century, Americans gained trust in its commitments, turned the First Amendment into an instrument for social progress, and exercised their rhetorical freedom to create a common language of rights. Robert L. Tsai explains that the guarantees of the First Amendment have become part of a governing culture and nationwide priority. Examining the rhetorical tactics of activists, presidents, and lawyers, he illustrates how committed citizens seek to promote or destabilize a convergence in constitutional ideas. Eloquence and Reason reveals the social and institutional processes through which foundational ideas are generated and defends a cultural role for the courts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0233505

Autore

CAMARDA, Guido

Titolo

Convenzione "Salvage 1989" e ambiente marino / Guido Camarda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Giuffr, 1992

Descrizione fisica

xvi,363 p. ; 24 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784204603321

Autore

Watt Diane <1965->

Titolo

Amoral Gower [[electronic resource] ] : language, sex, and politics / / Diane Watt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9412-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 38

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - To 1500

Ethics, Medieval, in literature

Courtly love in literature

Politics in literature

Sex in literature

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. 189-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Texts; Preface; Introduction: Social Gower; PART I: LANGUAGE; 1. Gower's Babel Tower: Language Choice and the Grammar of Sex; 2. Writing Like a Man: Rhetoric and Genealogy; PART II: SEX; 3. Transgressive Genders and Subversive Sexualities; 4. Sexual Chaos and Sexual Sin; PART III:



POLITICS; 5. Tyranny, Reform, and Self-Government; 6. Oedipus, Apollonius, and Richard II; Epilogue: Ethical Gower; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gower's writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to modern debates about the ethics of criticism.