1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000011645

Titolo

La città termale e il suo territorio : atti del Convegno nazionale di studio, Boario Terme, 25-27 maggio 1984 / a cura di Cosimo Damiano Fonseca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Galatina : Congedo, 1986

Descrizione fisica

298 p., [29] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Saggi e ricerche / Centro italiano di storia sanitaria ospitaliera ; 1

Disciplina

613.122

Soggetti

Stazioni idrotermali - Congressi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Centro italiano di storia sanitaria ospitaliera, Reggio Emilia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493671103321

Autore

Hamilton Geoff <1972->

Titolo

A New Continent of Liberty : Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich / / Geoff Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

0-8139-4246-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Disciplina

810.9/897

Soggetti

Social structure in literature

Natural law in literature

Autonomy in literature

American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eunomia regained and lost: Thomas Jefferson and Samson Occom -- Prospective domination, retrospective liberation: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Apess -- Lighting out, circling in: Mark Twain and Sarah Winnemucca -- The tent and the thipi I: Ernest Hemingway and Zitkala-Sa -- The tent and the thipi II: Joseph Heller and N. Scott Momaday -- Eunomia lost and regained: Don Delillo, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor.

Sommario/riassunto

"Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"--