1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467291403321

Autore

Jain Monika

Titolo

Environmental biotechnology / / Monika Jain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Alpha Science International Ltd., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78332-051-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs

Disciplina

628.5

Soggetti

Bioremediation

Biotechnology - Environmental aspects

Environmental management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910135962103321

Autore

Warren Robin O. <1963->

Titolo

Women on Southern stages, 1800-1865 : performance, gender and identity in a golden age of American theater / / Robin O. Warren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7864-9927-3

1-4766-2648-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Disciplina

792.02/80922

Soggetti

Women in the theater - Southern states - History - 19th century

Actresses - Southern states

Theater - Southern states - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The cast. The Arnolds -- The Drakes -- The Chapmans -- The Placides -- The Ludlows and Smiths -- The Fields -- The Logans -- The Menken -- The Crisps -- The theaters. Virginia and South Carolina: 1665/1774 -- Eastern seaboard: 1781/1860 -- Kentucky theater: 1806/1860 -- Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys: 1818/1860 -- Civil War: 1861/1865 -- The repertory. Colonial drama -- The early republic: the rise of melodrama -- Heroic melodrama and other "star vehicles" -- The enduring popularity of Shakespeare -- Drama during the Civil War -- The roles. Childhood -- Courtship and marriage -- Motherhood -- The job.  Pay -- Work -- Management -- Playwriting -- Sex. Acting feminine -- Acting masculine -- Race. Acting white -- Acting black -- Acting red -- Acting yellow -- The Civil War -- Epilogue: acting corporate.

Sommario/riassunto

"Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Although cast in parts written by men, they subverted norms of femininity in their public personas and independent personal lives. Educated and often wealthy but never accepted by the landed elite, women distinguished themselves by carving out an in-between



class status"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797903103321

Autore

McCully C. B.

Titolo

The earliest English : an introduction to Old English language / / Chris McCully and Sharon Hilles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-87698-9

1-315-83847-8

1-317-87697-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Learning about Language

Altri autori (Persone)

HillesSharon

Disciplina

429/.82

Soggetti

English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100

English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Grammar

English language - Middle English, 1100-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of symbols and a note on conventions; Abbreviations; Using this book; UNIT 1: Thinking about the earliest English; 1.0 Preliminaries; 1.1 Uniformity and change; 1.2 Initial terminology; 1.3 Old English poetry; 1.4 Reading passage; 1.5 Words, words, words; 1.6 Pronouncing Old English; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading; UNIT 2: History, culture, language origins; 2.0 Reading passage; 2.1 Some history; 2.2 A language-family tree; 2.3 The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy; Summary

Study questions websites;  further reading; UNIT 3: Nouns; 3.0 Mercenaries and settlers; 3.1 The Germania; 3.2 The Germania and the Anglo-Saxons; 3.3 Local shires and their politics; 3.4 Women; 3.5 Reading passage; 3.6 Inflections, nouns and grammatical roles; 3.7 Inflections in other languages; 3.8 Articles in OE; 3.9 More on OE articles, noun inflections and grammatical case; 3.10 Inflections on OE nouns; 3.11 Additional noun declensions in OE; 3.12 Pronouns; 3.13



NPs, nominals, strong and weak adjectives; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading

Appendix 1: At-a-glance guide to OE inflections - nouns and adjectivesUNIT 4: Verbs; 4.0 The conversion of England; 4.1 Influence of the Celtic church; 4.2 The convergence of the Celtic and Roman traditions; 4.3 Reading passage (1); 4.4 Word order and pronouns in OE; 4.5 OE verbs: present participles; 4.6 Relative clauses; 4.7 Thou and you in OE; 4.8 OE and PDE verbs; 4.9 'Less regular' verbs; 4.10 Still more on OE verbs; 4.11 Weak verbs; 4.12 Reading passage (2); 4.13 Comments on reading passage (2) - the subjunctive; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading

Appendix 2: At-a-glance guide to OE inflections - verbsINTERLUDE: Working with dictionaries; UNIT 5: OE metrics; 5.0 Overview of OE metre; 5.1 Stress in OE; 5.2 Syllables in OE and PDE; 5.3 Syllables and alliteration; 5.4 How half-lines end: poetic closure in OE; 5.5 Resolution; 5.6 The concept of metrical position in OE verse; 5.7 Half-line patterns that never occur; 5.8 The Five Types; 5.9 Secondary stress, metrical position and 'L'; 5.10 Stress, L and alliteration; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading; UNIT 6: Standards and crosses; 6.0 Poetry and prose

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