Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the Origin of species, from the nineteenth century, through punctuated equilibria and beyond / / Niles Eldredge ; cover designer, Lisa Hamm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464100003321
• Autore: Eldredge Niles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-231-15317-1; 0-231-52675-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.8/2
• Soggetti: Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution); Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy; Emergence (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Birth of Modern Evolutionary Theory -- 1. The Advent of the Modern Fauna -- 2. Darwin and the Beagle -- 3. Enter Adaptation and the Conflict Between Isolation and Gradual Adaptive Change, 1836-1859 -- Part II. Rebellion and Reinvention: The Taxic Perspective, 1935- -- 4. Species and Speciation Reconsidered, 1935- -- 5. Punctuated Equilibria -- 6. Speciation and Adaptation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own, more resilient findings. Eldredge begins in France with the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who in 1801 first framed the overarching question about the emergence of ; new species. The Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi followed, bringing in geology and paleontology to expand the question. In 1825, at the University of Edinburgh, Robert Grant and Robert Jameson introduced the astounding ideas formulated by Lamarck and Brocchi to a young medical student named Charles Darwin. Who can doubt that Darwin left for his voyage on the Beagle in 1831 filled with thoughts about these daring new explanations for the "transmutation" of species. Eldredge revisits Darwin's early insights into evolution in South America and his later synthesis of knowledge into a theory of the origin of species. He then considers the ideas of more recent evolutionary thinkers, such as George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the young and brash Niles Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould, who set science afire with their concept of punctuated equilibria. Filled with insights into evolutionary biology and told with a rich affection for the scientific arena, this book celebrates the organic, vital relationship between scientific thinking and its subjects.

A History of the Sonnet in England: "A little world made cunningly" / / by Jochen Petzold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910637714003321
• Autore: Petzold Jochen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG : , : Imprint : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783503205400; 9783503205394
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Disciplina: 821.04
• Soggetti: Philology; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Critiques littéraires.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page 1 -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. ; Introduction -- 1.1 The Invention of the Sonnet -- 1.2 Forms of the Sonnet -- 1.2.1 The Italian Sonnet -- 1.2.2 The English or Shakespearean Sonnet -- 1.2.3 Formal Variation and the Sonnet in English -- 1.3 Who is the 'I' of the Sonnet? -- 2. The Early Modern Period -- 2.1 The Sonnet Comes to England -- 2.1.1 Sir Thomas Wyatt -- 2.1.2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- 2.1.3 Tottel's Miscellany -- 2.2 The Sonnet Sequence Craze of the 1590s -- 2.2.1 Sonnet Sequences before Philip Sidney -- 2.2.2 Sir Philip Sidney -- 2.2.3 Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, and Edmund Spenser -- 2.3 William Shakespeare -- 2.3.1 Sonnets in Shakespeare's Plays -- 2.3.2 Shakespeare's Sonnets -- 2.4 Lady Mary Wroth -- 2.5 John Donne and George Herbert -- 2.6 John Milton -- 3. The Long Eighteenth Century -- 3.1 Mid-Century: Thomas Edwards, Charles Emily, and Thomas Gray -- 3.2 The 1780s: Charlotte Smith and William Lisle Bowles -- 3.2 The 1790s: Mary Robinson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- 3.4 William Wordsworth -- 3.5 Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats -- 4. The Victorian Period -- 4.1 Amatory Sonnet Sequences -- 4.1.1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- 4.1.2 George Meredith -- 4.1.3 Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- 4.1.4 Christina Rossetti -- 4.1.5 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt -- 4.2 Devotional Sonnets -- 4.3 Family Relations -- 4.4 Town and Country -- 4.5 Travel -- 4.6 Politics and Social Change -- 4.7 War and Empire -- 5. 1914 to 1945 -- 5.1 The 'Great War': Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen -- 5.2 Between the Wars: W. H. Auden -- 5.3 The Second World War -- 6. From Mid-20th Century to the Present -- 6.1 Francis Warner -- 6.2 Seamus Heaney -- 6.3 George MacBeth -- 6.4 George Szirtes -- 6.5 Patience Agbabi -- 7. Epilogue -- 8. Bibliography of Works Quoted or Consulted -- 8.1 Primary Sources -- 8.2 Secondary Sources.; 9. Index -- 9.1 Poets and their Works -- 9.2 Poems and Sequences -- Cover Page 4.
• Sommario/riassunto: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” – “Death! be not proud, …” – “If I should die, think only this of me” Even occasional readers of English poetry will probably have heard these lines before, and many poetry-lovers will recognize them as the opening lines of sonnets. Indeed, many of the best-known poems in English are sonnets, and they are probably the most frequently anthologized poetic form in English. Although not all sonnets are great poetry, they have an unwavering fascination for their readers and, to adapt a line by John Donne, can even be “a little world made cunningly” (i.e., skilfully, cleverly, knowingly). That little world is explored by Jochen Petzold in great detail, wherefore this book, unlike other histories of English literature, focusses exclusively on the sonnet. Besides a few examples from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland this book charts the history of the sonnet in England, from the arrival of the sonnet in English culture in the sixteenth century to developments in the twenty-first century. Focussing mainly on sonnet sequences, it covers not only the ‘big names’ of English sonneteering like William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Rupert Brooke, quoted above, but also introduces its readers to lesser-known poets and their work. The sonnet sequences and individual sonnets are discussed as case studies which provide accessible readings, whereby the book is recommended for experts as in-depth studies as well as for fans of English poetry as a solid basis.