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UNINA9910462263403321 |
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Ovid <43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.> |
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Love poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid [[electronic resource] /] / translated by David R. Slavitt |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2011 |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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SlavittDavid R. <1935-> |
Ovid <43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.> |
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Love poetry, Latin |
Epistolary poetry, Latin |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION / Dirda, Michael -- Love Poems (Amores) -- Letters (Heroides) -- Remedies (Remedia Amoris) |
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Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression. In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the companion Heroides-through a series of dramatic monologues addressed to absent lovers-he imagines how love goes for women. "You think she is ardent with you? So was she ardent with him," cries Oenone to Paris. Sappho, revisiting the forest where she lay with Phaon, sighs, "The place / without your presence is just another place. / You were what made it magic." The Remedia Amoris sees love as a sickness, and offers curative advice: "The beginning is your best chance to resist"; "Try to avoid onions, / imported or domestic. And arugula is bad. / Whatever may incline your body to Venus / keep away from." The voices of men and women produce a volley of extravagant laments over love's inconstancy and confusions, as though elegance and vigor of expression might |
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compensate for heartache.Though these love poems come to us across millennia, Slavitt's translations, introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda, ensure that their sentiments have not faded with the passage of time. They delight us with their wit, even as we weep a little in recognition. |
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UNINA9910792896203321 |
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Autore |
French Dan (Historian) |
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When they hid the fire [[electronic resource] ] : a history of electricity and invisible energy in America / / Daniel French |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Intersections: environment, science, technology |
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Electric utilities - United States - History |
History |
United States |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-230) and index. |
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Preface -- Introduction -- 1. English roots, utopia found and lost -- 2. The energy revolution and the ascendancy of coal -- 3. The conundrum of smoke and visible energy -- 4. Technology and energy in the abstract -- 5. Of fluids, fields, and wizards -- 6. Energy, utopia, and the American mind -- 7. Turbines, coal, and convenience -- Conclusion. |
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When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power |
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consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources. With its adoption occurring simultaneously with Progressivism and consumerism, electricity use was encouraged and seen as an integral part of improvement and modernity, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential--a newfound "basic right" of life in the United States. |
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