1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789033403321

Autore

Flanagan Tom

Titolo

Winning power : Canadian campaigning in the twenty-first century / / Tom Flanagan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7735-9037-4

0-7735-9036-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

324.70971

Soggetti

Political campaigns - Canada

Campaign funds - Canada

Political campaigns - Technological innovations - Canada

Political campaigns - Alberta

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. The permanent reality of campaigning -- part II. The changing reality of campaigning -- part III. Fear and loathing in Alberta.

Sommario/riassunto

Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century. This book draws on decades of experience teaching political science and managing political campaigns to inform readers about what goes on behind the scenes.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784980603321

Autore

Mahaffey Vicki

Titolo

States of desire [[electronic resource] ] : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment / / Vicki Mahaffey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-759223-6

1-280-52960-1

0-19-535388-9

1-4294-0448-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

820.99415

820.9941509041

Soggetti

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, Irish, in literature

Ireland In literature

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 (p. 253-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Reading and ""Irish"" Desire; 2. Wilde's Desire: A Study in Green; 3. ""Horrible Splendour of Desire"": The Will of W.B.Yeats; 4. Joyful Desire: Giacomo Joyce and Finnegans Wake; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible.