1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465626303321

Autore

Spiegelman Willard

Titolo

Imaginative transcripts [[electronic resource] ] : selected literary essays / / Willard Spiegelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786611925598

0-19-970971-8

1-281-92559-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

811.009

Soggetti

American poetry - History and criticism

English poetry - History and criticism

Poetics

Poetry

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. 285-297) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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);



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

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786000703321

Autore

Goldsmith Mike

Titolo

Discord [[electronic resource]] : the story of noise / / Mike Goldsmith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-163382-8

1-283-63466-X

0-19-163381-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

534

Soggetti

Noise

Noise pollution

Noise control

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;



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

Sommario/riassunto

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