1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450424903321

Autore

Scarry Elaine

Titolo

Resisting representation [[electronic resource] /] / Elaine Scarry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-802502-5

1-280-44307-3

1-4237-3578-1

1-60129-983-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

809/.91

820.9

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Representation (Philosophy)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 OBDURATE SENSATION: PAIN: Willow Bark and Red Poppies: Advertising the Remedies for Physical Pain; 2 PARTICIPIAL ACTS: WORKING: Work and the Body in Hardy and Other Nineteenth-Century Novelists; 3 NOUNS: THE REALM OF THINGS: Six Ways To Kill a Blackbird (or Any Other Intentional Object) in Samuel Beckett; 4 THE EXTERNAL REFERENT: HISTORY: Untransmissible History in Thackeray's Henry Esmond; 5 THE EXTERNAL REFERENT: COSMIC ORDER: The Well-Rounded Sphere: Cognition and Metaphysical Structure in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag ""extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful."" The Los Angeles Times called it ""brilliant, ambitious, and controversial."" Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through



the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally avail

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910699272803321

Titolo

Trends in streamflow and nutrient and suspended-sediment concentrations and loads in the upper Mississippi, Ohio, Red, and Great Lakes river basins, 1975-2004 [[electronic resource] /] / by David L. Lorenz ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x. 81 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Scientific investigations report ; ; 2008-5213

Altri autori (Persone)

LorenzD. L

Soggetti

Streamflow - Mississippi River Watershed

River sediments - Mississippi River Watershed

Nutrient pollution of water - Mississippi River Watershed

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed Aug. 28, 2009).

"National Water-Quality Assessment Program."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-81).