1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794023303321

Titolo

Forming sleep : representing consciousness in the English Renaissance / / edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-271-08654-8

0-271-08656-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Collana

Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700

Disciplina

820.9353

Soggetti

Consciousness in literature

Sleep in literature

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Forming Sleep -- Part I: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric -- 1. Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence -- 2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry -- 3. “Still in Thought with Thee I Go”: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms -- Part II: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama -- 4. Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello -- 5. Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- 6. “The Heaviness of Sleep”: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear -- Part III: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise -- 7. Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia -- 8. “Sweet Moistning Sleepe”: Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Body in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy -- 9. The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind -- Afterword: Beyond the Lost World; Early Modern Sleep Scenarios -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together



to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seemingly insentient states might actually enable self-formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory, trauma theory, and affect theory, this volume envisions sleep states as a means of defining the human condition, both literally and metaphorically. The contributors examine a range of archival sources—including texts in early modern faculty psychology, printed and manuscript medical treatises and physicians’ notes, and printed ephemera on pathological sleep—through the lenses of both classical and contemporary philosophy. Essays apply these frameworks to genres such as drama, secular lyric, prose treatise, epic, and religious verse. Taken together, these essays demonstrate how early modern depictions of sleep shape, and are shaped by, the philosophical, medical, political, and, above all, formal discourses through which they are articulated. With this in mind, the question of form merges considerations of the physical and the poetic with the spiritual and the secular, highlighting the pervasiveness of sleep states as a means by which to reflect on the human condition. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Brian Chalk, Jennifer Lewin, Cassie Miura, Benjamin Parris, Giulio Pertile, N. Amos Rothschild, Garret A. Sullivan Jr., and Timothy A. Turner.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150327303321

Autore

Wertheim A

Titolo

W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway : Becoming a Comedian / / by A. Wertheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781137300676

1137300671

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, , 2947-5775

Disciplina

791.4302/8092

791.43028092

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Motion pictures, American

Performing arts

Theater

Literature

Arts

Film and Television Studies

American Film and TV

Theatre and Performance Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Symbols and Abbreviations ; Prologue; Introduction ; Part I  The Fledgling Years ; 1.  Meet the Dukenfields ; 2.  Life with Father ; Part II  The Training Ground ; 3.  The Tramp Juggler ; 4.  Initiation Rites ; 5.  The Sly Conjurer ; 6.  The Big Time ; Part III  "All the World's a Stage" ; 7.  "A Master Pantomimist" ; 8.  "My Art Never Satisfies Me" ; 9.  To the Antipodes ; 10.  The Trouper on the Flying Trapeze ; 11.  The Ham Tree ; Part IV  "What Therefore God Hath Joined Together, Let Not Man Put Asunder"

12.  The Breakup 13.  The Affair ; Part V  The Labyrinth to the Ziegfeld



Follies ; 14.  The Road to the Palace ; 15.  The Second Home ; 16.  "They Had Me Sweating Blood" ; 17.  Backstabbed ; Epilogue; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019564703321

Autore

Toshchakov Igor <1961->

Titolo

Beat the odds in Forex trading : how to identify and profit from high percentage market patterns / / Igor Toshchakov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2006

ISBN

9786610549870

9781119202196

1119202191

9781280549878

1280549874

9780470049389

0470049383

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Wiley trading

Disciplina

332.4/5

Soggetti

Foreign exchange market

Foreign exchange futures

Speculation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Recommendations to novice traders -- How to get started -- Establishing a trading account -- Choosing the right dealer -- Developing a trading method -- Psychological challenges of speculative trading -- Discretionary versus mechanical trading systems -- Technical and fundamental analysis -- The Igrok method -- Philosophy of the Igrok method -- Evaluating probabilities using technical analysis



-- Basic trading strategies and techniques -- Choosing a currency pair to trade -- Money management rules and techniques -- Market behavior and trader discipline -- Short-term and intraday trading strategies using the Igrok method -- Principles of the intraday trading plan -- Entering the market -- Exiting the market -- The importance of timing -- Trading strategy during the central bank intervention -- Templates for short-term and intraday trading -- Average daily trading range templates -- Technical formation templates -- Trendlines, support, and resistance templates -- A sample trade.

Sommario/riassunto

""Beat the Odds in Forex Trading provides traders with tremendous value by disseminating the trading methods and philosophy of one of the most remarkable Forex success stories since Soros."" --Alexander De Khtyar, President, Forex International Investments, Inc. Add certainty and systematization into Forex trading with this practical approach. Author and industry professional Igor Toshchakov shows how recurring market patterns--which can be recognized on a simple bar chart--can be successfully used to trade the Forex market. Written for traders at every level, this valuable resour