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UNINA9910465626303321 |
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Spiegelman Willard |
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Imaginative transcripts [[electronic resource] ] : selected literary essays / / Willard Spiegelman |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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9786611925598 |
0-19-970971-8 |
1-281-92559-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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American poetry - History and criticism |
English poetry - History and criticism |
Poetics |
Poetry |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Unforced Marches: A Virgilian Memoir (2007); 2 Wordsworth's: Aeneid (1974); 3 Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth (1985); 4 Keats's "Coming Muskrose" and Shakespeare's "Profound Verdure" (1983); 5 Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero (1986); 6 The Rake, The Don, The Flute: W. H. Auden as Librettist (1982); 7 Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (1975); 8 "In the Mash of the Upper and Nether": Ben Belitt's Places (1976); 9 "All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars" (1989): On Ben Belitt |
10 The Comedian as the Letter I, or the Perils of Vaudeville in a Post-Modern Age: On Irving Feldman (2001)11 Repetition and Singularity: On Louise Glück, The Seven Ages, and Jorie Graham, Never (2003); 12 Poetry in Review: On the Collected Poems of Donald Justice (2004); 13 Rita Dove, Dancing (2005); 14 The Nineties Revisited (2001); 15 Jorie Graham Talking (2006); 16 Poetry in Review: On A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery (2006); 17 "Naked without My Line-Ends": Robert Lowell in His Letters (2006); 18 The Achievement of Robert Lowell (2005); |
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Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N |
OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y |
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Foreword by John Hollander Introduction 1. ""'Unforced Marches': A Virgilian Memoir"" 2. ""Wordsworth's Aeneid"" 3. ""Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth"" 4. ""Keats's 'Coming Muskrose' and Shakespeare's 'Profound Verdure'"" 5. ""Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero"" 6. ""The Rake, The Don, The Flute: Auden as Librettist"" 7. ""Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop"" 8. ""'In the Mash of the Upper and Nether': Ben Belitt's Places"" 9. ""'All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars': The Case of Ben Belitt"" 10. ""The Comedian as the Letter I, or the P |
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UNINA9910786000703321 |
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Goldsmith Mike |
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Discord [[electronic resource]] : the story of noise / / Mike Goldsmith |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
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0-19-163382-8 |
1-283-63466-X |
0-19-163381-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Noise |
Noise pollution |
Noise control |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Nature of Noise; 2. A Silent Bang; 3. Classical Noise; 4. New Noise; 5. A New Science of Sound; 6. Noise in the Eighteenth Century; 7. Machineries of Noise; 8. The First Champions of Silence; 9. The Noise Century; 10. Noise in Wartime; 11. A Time of Peace?; 12. A Different Kind of War; 13. A New Beginning?; 14. The Power of Science; 15. A New Pollution; 16. Noise Now; 17. A Quieter Tomorrow?; Notes; Index; |
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A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable 'soundscapes' in contexts such as industry, schools, or public spaces, this is an area of active research for acousticians. But noise, in the sense of dissonance, can also be used positively; composers have employed it from Baroque music to Rock feedback; medicine harnesses it to shatter kidney stones and treat cancer; and even themilitary uses it in (real and rumoured) weapons.Mike Goldsmith looks back at the long history of the battle between peop |
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