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UNINA9910456624903321 |
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Autore |
Schleifer Ronald |
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Titolo |
Intangible materialism [[electronic resource] ] : the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language / / Ronald Schleifer |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Materialism in literature |
Materialism |
Human body in literature |
Human body (Philosophy) |
Literature and science |
Literature - Philosophy |
Semiotics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: materialist literature -- Intangible materialism -- The faces of consilience: levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics -- Material voices: Tourette syndrome, neurobiology, and the affect of poetry -- The history of the hand: Peirce's index, attention, and the power of narrative -- Pain, memory, and religious suffering: materiality and the subject of poetry. |
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Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.Schleifer's project attempts to bridge the divisions between the humanities and the sciences and to create a nonreductive materialis |
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UNINA9910703345803321 |
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Titolo |
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of crime victims : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, on H.J. Res. 106, April 26, 2012 / / U.S. Government Printing Office |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. G.P.O., , [2012] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 357 pages) |
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Constitutional amendments - United States |
Victims of crimes - Legal status, laws, etc |
United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 22, 2012). |
"Serial no. 112-113." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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