1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778284803321

Autore

Moncreiff Robert P

Titolo

Bart Giamatti : a profile / / Robert P. Moncreiff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-281-73517-5

9786611735173

0-300-13772-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

378.1/11

B

Soggetti

Baseball commissioners - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Beginnings -- Yale: Scholar and Teacher -- Yale: University President -- Baseball -- Coda -- Notes and Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This vivid portrait of Bart Giamatti encompasses his entire eventful life but focuses especially on his years at Yale University (1966-1986) and his brief career as a major league baseball executive (1986-1989). As scholar, teacher, and then university president, Giamatti was an admired and respected figure on campus. He forged his academic career during turbulent decades, and his tenure in baseball was no less contentious, for as commissioner of baseball he oversaw the banishment of Cincinnati's Pete Rose from the game for gambling. The book draws on Giamatti's numerous writings and speeches to illuminate the character and complexities of the man and to understand the values that motivated his leadership. Bart Giamatti was a cultural conservative and institutional moderate at a time when such values were out of favor and under attack. At Yale, as a baseball executive, and indeed in all things, Giamatti championed the related values of freedom and order. Robert P. Moncreiff places Giamatti in the context of major events at Yale, recounts in detail the legal context in which the



Pete Rose affair unfolded, and arrives at a nuanced understanding of this memorable man's life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790739703321

Titolo

The lyric poem : formations and transformations / / edited by Marion Thain, Sheffield University [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-70251-8

1-139-89053-0

1-316-61971-0

1-107-68808-6

1-107-70357-3

0-511-86320-9

1-107-59793-5

1-107-66524-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

809.1/4

Soggetti

Lyric poetry - History and criticism

Lyric poetry - Themes, motives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Marion Thain -- 'Words for music, perhaps': early modern songs and lyric / David Lindley -- Neither here nor there: deixis and the sixteenth-century sonnet / Heather Dubrow -- 'Trewly wrote': manuscript, print and the lyric in the early seventeenth century / Thomas Healy -- Lyric and the English revolution / Nigel Smith -- Modulation and expression in the lyric ode, 1660-1750 / David Fairer -- Eighteenth-century high lyric: William Collins and Christopher Smart / Marcus Walsh -- The retuning of the sky: Romanticism and lyric / David Duff -- Victorian lyric pathology and phenomenology / Marion Thain -- Modernism and the limits of lyric / Peter Nicholls -- The lyric 'I' in late-twentieth-century English poetry / Neil Roberts -- No man is



an I: recent developments in the lyric / Ian Patterson -- Afterword / Jonathan Culler.

Sommario/riassunto

As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.