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UNINA9910784312603321 |
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Autore |
Knight Charles A. |
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Titolo |
The literature of satire / / Charles A. Knight [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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1-107-14954-1 |
1-280-45804-6 |
0-511-18610-X |
0-511-18527-8 |
0-511-18796-3 |
0-511-30922-8 |
0-511-48542-5 |
0-511-18703-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Satire - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 302)-319) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Pt 1. Satiric boundaries. Imagination's Cerberus -- Satiric nationalism -- Satiric exile -- Pt 2. Satiric forms. Satire as performance -- Horatian performances -- Satire and the novel -- Satire and the press : the Battle of Dunkirk -- White snow and black magic : Karl Kraus and the press. |
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The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight analyses the rhetorical problems created by satire's complex relations to its community, and examines how it exploits the genres it borrows. He argues that satire derives from an awareness of the differences between appearance, ideas and discourse. Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Byron, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging examination sheds light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing, as well as on theoretical |
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approaches to it. It will be of interest to scholars interested in literary theory as well as those specifically interested in satire. |
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UNINA9910957758703321 |
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Autore |
Gleick Peter <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Bottled and sold : the story behind our obsession with bottled water / / Peter H. Gleick |
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Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2010 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Bottled water |
Drinking water |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page--Copyright Page--Table of Contents--Preface--Chapter 1: The War on Tap Water--Chapter 2: Fear of the Tap--Chapter 3: Selling Unwholesome Provisions--Chapter 4: If It's Called "Arctic Spring," Why is it from Florida?--Chapter 5: The Cachet of Spring Water--Chapter 6: The Taste of Water--Chapter 7: The Hidden Cost of Convenience--Chapter 8: Selling Bottled Water: The Modern Medicine Show--Chapter 9: Drinking Bottled Water: Sin or Salvation?--Chapter 10: Revolt: The Growing Campaign Against Bottled Water--Chapter 11: Green Water? The Effort to Produce Ethical Bottled Water--Chapter 12: The Future of Water Acknowledgments Notes Index. |
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"Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation'genius,'and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and |
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every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.'Designer'H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being'green,'and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity."--Provided by publisher. |
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