1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466367203321

Autore

Stouck David <1940->

Titolo

As for Sinclair Ross / / David Stouck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4426-5744-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

C813.54

Soggetti

Authors, Canadian - 20th century

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Wild Rose -- 2. The Housekeeper's Son -- 3. Bank Clerk -- 4. Musician -- 5. Winnipeg -- 6. Days with Pegasus -- 7. As for Me and My House -- 8. War Years -- 9. Montreal -- 10. The Well -- 11. Whir of Gold -- 12. Tourist -- 13. Sawbones Memorial -- 14. Literary Forefather -- 15. Suicide -- 16. The Order of Canada -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man. In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in rural Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality. Stouck's biography draws on archival records and on insights gathered during an acquaintance late in Ross's life to illuminate this difficult author,



describing in detail the struggles of a gifted artist living in an inhospitable time and place. Stouck argues that when Ross was writing about prairie farmers and small towns, he wanted his readers to see the kind of society they were creating, to feel uncomfortable with religion as coercive rhetoric, prejudices based on race and ethnicity, and rigid notions of gender. As for Sinclair Ross is the story of a remarkable writer whose works continue to challenge us and are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777792703321

Autore

Martines Lauro

Titolo

Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence / / Lauro Martines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-19-988430-7

1-280-84504-X

0-19-803949-2

1-4294-2032-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Disciplina

945/.5105092

B

Soggetti

Reformers - Italy - Florence

Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Church history

Florence (Italy) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; AN X-RAY OF FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; 1 Chorus; 2 Vile Bodies: 1472-1490; 3 The Friar Returns: 1490-1491; 4 The Wait: 1492-1494; 5 Fear and Loathing: November 1494; 6 Holy Liberty; 7 Stamping out Tyranny: 1494-1495; 8 God and Politics; 9 Angels and



Enforcers: 1496-1498; 10 The Pope and the Friar: 1495-1497; 11 The Savonarolan Moment; 12 Wailers and Bigots; 13 Excommunication: May-June 1497; 14 Five Executions: August 1497; 15 Rome Closes In; 16 Foiled Fire; 17 The Siege of San Marco: April 1498; 18 Confessions of a Sinner; 19 Fire Again: Three Executions: May 1498; 20 The Conscience of a City; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola.     Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Girolamo Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century Florence. The Dominican friar has long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911016079303321

Autore

Zeng Xiaoqing

Titolo

International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) 2025 Proceedings : Branch of ISADS (The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems) / / edited by Xiaoqing Zeng, Xiongyao Xie, Jian Sun, Limin Ma, Yinong Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9647-02-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, , 1876-1119 ; ; 1407

Altri autori (Persone)

XieXiongyao

SunJian

MaLimin

ChenYinong

Disciplina

629.04

Soggetti

Transportation engineering

Traffic engineering

Geotechnical engineering

Sustainability

Telecommunication

Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences

Communications Engineering, Networks



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Metro Sector -- Maglev Sector -- Highway Sector.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents selected papers of the 6th International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) held at Tongji University, Shanghai, on May 16 - 17, 2025. It investigates in detail aspects of intelligent transportation and smart city, mainly focusing on the green traffic and urban utility tunnels. Due to rapid development in the domain of intelligent transportation and smart city, there are many popular topics, such as the 2BMW system (bus, bike, metro, and walking), transportation safety and environment protection, urban utility design and application, and the application of BIM in the city design. It collects dozens of papers and lectures with high quality, including some authoritative scholars and most experienced engineers’ latest achievements, which provide guidance to those both in universities and entrepreneurs.