1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459292503321

Autore

Bassard Katherine Clay

Titolo

Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing / / Katherine Clay Bassard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

1-282-75344-4

9786612753442

1-4008-2259-9

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

Disciplina

810.9/382

Soggetti

African American women -- Intellectual life

African American women -- Religious life

African American women in literature

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism

Christianity and literature -- United States

Community life in literature

Religion and literature -- United States

Spiritual life in literature

Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Religion

Women and literature -- United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars -- Chapter Two. Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery -- Chapter Three. "The Too Advent'rous Strain": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in



Phillis Wheatley's Elegies -- Chapter Four. "Social Piety" in Ann Plato's Essays -- Chapter Five. "I Took a Text": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives -- Chapter Six. Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson -- Chapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation -- Afterword. The Sacred Subject -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462335203321

Autore

Eskin Michael

Titolo

Poetic affairs [[electronic resource] ] : Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky / / Michael Eskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8047-8681-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics

Verbal art

Disciplina

831/.914

Soggetti

Poetics

Subjectivity in literature

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. [199]-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prefatory Note; Introduction: On Poetry, Life, Method, and Sundry Affairs; 1. Creative Fidelities; 2. From Encounter to Tryst: Celan and Shakespeare; 3. Metaphors of Subjectivity: Grünbein and the Philosophers; 4. What's in a Name? Brodsky and the English Muse; Closing Remarks; Appendix: Constellations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-70), the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and the most significant contemporary German poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458347703321

Autore

Krieger Robert

Titolo

Hayes' Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, : Elsevier Science, 2010

ISBN

1-282-95406-7

9786612954061

0-08-092201-5

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2407 p.)

Disciplina

615.902

615.951

Soggetti

Pesticides -- Toxicology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Pesticides -- Toxicology

Pesticides - Toxicology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

e9780123743671v1; Front Cover; Hayes' Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology, Third Edition; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents of Volume 1; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I: Pesticide Uses; Chapter 1. Dose and Time Determining, and Other Factors Influencing, Toxicity; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Dose and Time as Fundamental Variables of Toxicity; 1.1.2 Definition of Dose and Time; 1.1.3 Dose and Time Relationships; 1.1.4 Analogy to Thermodynamics; 1.2 Kinds of toxicity; 1.2.1 Nature of the Injury; 1.2.2 Duration of the Injury; 1.3 Quantitation of dosage-response relationships

1.3.1 ED 50 or LD 501.3.2 Measurement of Cumulative Effects; 1.3.3 Time Relationships; 1.3.4 Problem of Measuring Effect of Dispersed Toxicants; 1.3.5 Measurement of Graded Responses; 1.3.6 Dosage at the Tissue Level; 1.3.7 Statistical Considerations; 1.4 Dosage-response relationships in different kinds of toxicity or change; 1.4.1 Toxicity (Sensu Stricto); 1.4.2 Neurotoxicity; 1.4.3 Teratogenesis; 1.4.4 Carcinogenesis; 1.4.5 Mutagenesis; 1.4.6 Hypersensitivity and Allergy; 1.4.7 Induction of Enzymes; 1.4.8 Metabolism and Storage; 1.5 Factors influencing toxicity of any kind; 1.5.1 Dosage



1.5.2 Compound1.5.3 Interaction of Compounds; 1.5.4 Schedule of Dosage; 1.5.5 Duration of Dosage; 1.5.6 Route of Exposure; 1.5.7 Species and Strain Differences; 1.5.8 Discussion of Factors Influencing Toxicity; Chapter 2. Pest Toxicology: The Primary Mechanisms of Pesticide Action; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Primary targets; 2.3 Secondary targets; 2.4 Common target for structurally diverse pesticides; 2.5 Resistance as a limiting factor; 2.6 Nerve; 2.7 Photosynthesis and pigment synthesis; 2.8 Biosynthesis; 2.8.1 Herbicides; 2.8.2 Fungicides and Insecticides; 2.9 Respiration

2.10 Growth regulators2.11 Unknown, nonspecific and other targets; 2.12 Overview; 2.13 Conclusion; 2.14 Postscript; Acknowledgments; Chapter 3. Pest Control Agents from Natural Products; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Insect control agents; 3.2.1 Botanical Insecticides; 3.2.2 Microbial Insecticides; 3.2.3 Semiochemicals; 3.3 Disease control agents; 3.3.1 Fungicides; 3.3.2 Bactericides; 3.4 Herbicides; 3.4.1 Bilanafos (Bialaphos); 3.4.2 Glufosinate; 3.5 Rodenticides; 3.5.1 Strychnine; 3.5.2 Red Squill and Scilliroside; 3.5.3 Ricin; 3.5.4 Salmonella Bacteria; Chapter 4. Public Health Pesticides

4.1 Introduction4.2 Definition of terms in vector-borne diseases; 4.3 Impact of arthropods on human health; 4.4 Integrated pest management and vector management; 4.4.1 Noninsecticidal Methods in Vector Management; 4.4.2 Chemicals in Vector Management; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Changing Role of Insecticides in Structural Pest Control; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Pest problems: real or perceived; 5.3 Environmental and health concerns; 5.4 Insecticide applications; 5.4.1 Nonresidual Insecticides; 5.4.2 Residual Insecticides; 5.5 Soil treatments for subterranean termites; 5.6 Baits and baiting

5.7 Future directions

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology is a comprehensive, two-volume reference guide to the properties, effects, and regulation of pesticides that provides the latest and most complete information to researchers investigating the environmental, agricultural, veterinary, and human-health impacts of pesticide use. Written by international experts from academia, government, and the private sector, the Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology is an in-depth examination of critical issues related to the need for, use of, and nature of chemicals used in modern pest management. This updated 3