1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696713303321

Titolo

Action strategies for effective coalitions [[electronic resource] /] / National Council on Disability

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : National Council on Disability, , [2001]

Descrizione fisica

19 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Coalitions

People with disabilities - United States

Social movements - Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 17, 2008).

"November 30, 2001."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777717503321

Autore

Williams Gordon <1935->

Titolo

A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / / Gordon Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Athlone Press, , 1994

ISBN

1-281-29166-8

9786611291662

1-84714-256-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1649 p.)

Collana

Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary

Disciplina

820.9/3538/09031

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700

Sex symbolism

Sex in literature

Sex

Figures of speech

Erotic literature, English

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: A-F; Volume II: G-P; Volume III: Q-Z; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illumi