1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130850803321

Titolo

Living dinosaurs [[electronic resource] ] : the evolutionary history of modern birds / / edited by Gareth Dyke and Gary Kaiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-283-40522-9

9786613405227

1-119-99045-9

1-119-99047-5

Descrizione fisica

xv, 422 p. : ill., maps

Altri autori (Persone)

DykeGareth

KaiserGary W

Disciplina

598.13/8

Soggetti

Birds - Evolution

Paleobiology

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : changing the questions in avian paleontology / Gary Kaiser and Gareth Dyke -- Theropod diversity and the refinement of avian characteristics / Peter J. Makovicky and Lindsay E. Zanno -- Why were there dinosaurs? Why are there birds? / Peter Ward and Robert Berner -- Pre-modern birds : avian divergences in the Mesozoic / Jingmai O'Connor, Luis M. Chiappe, and Alyssa Bell -- Progress and obstacles in the phylogenetics of modern birds / Bradley C. Livezey -- The utility of fossil taxa and the evolution of modern birds : commentary and analysis / Gareth Dyke and Eoin Gardiner -- Penguins past, present, and future : trends in the evolution of the Sphenisciformes / Daniel T. Ksepka and Tatsuro Ando -- Phorusrhacids : the terror birds / Herculano Alvarenga, Luis Chiappe, and Sara Bertelli -- The pseudo-toothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) and their bearing on the early evolution of modern birds / Estelle Bourdon -- Phylogeny and diversification of modern passerines / F. Keith Barker -- Morphological and behavioral correlates of flapping flight / Bret W. Tobalske ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the avian brain and senses / Stig Walsh and Angela Milner -- Evolving perceptions on the antiquity of the



modern avian tree / Joseph W. Brown and M. Van Tuinen -- Major events in avian genome evolution / Chris L. Organ and Scott V. Edwards -- Bird evolution across the K-Pg boundary and the basal neornithine diversification / Bent E.K. Lindow -- Functional and phylogenetic diversity in marine and aquatic birds / Gary Kaiser -- The state of the world's birds and the future of avian diversity / Gavin H. Thomas.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793594803321

Autore

Jones Dafydd <1965->

Titolo

The fictions of Arthur Cravan : Poetry, boxing and revolution / / Dafydd W. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-3325-3

1-5261-3324-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Dadaism

Surrealism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan -- Enter Colossus -- To be an American in Paris -- 'All words are lies' : Maintenant, April 1912-July 1913 -- 'Life has no solution' : Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915 -- The vision of struggling movement : Barcelona 1916 -- 'Pure affect' : New York 1917 -- Being as being, and nothing more.

Sommario/riassunto

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery -- from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze -- with



thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches -- of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte -- The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world.