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UNINA9910807702003321 |
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Mondry Henrietta |
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Political animal : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / / by Henrietta Mondry |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (451 pages) : color illustrations, photographs |
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Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, , 0169-0175 ; ; Volume 59 |
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Dogs |
Dog breeds |
Puppies |
Russia (Federation) |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary material / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- Introduction / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- When dogs were more expensive than people / Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinskii -- ‘The Children’s Hour’: Cruelty to dogs / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- Degradation narratives: Dogs and humans in social and moral transformation / Jacques Derrida and Marina Tsvetaeva -- The fate of dogs in partnerships with the marginalised Other / Alexander Pushkin -- Dogs and inmates in prison and Gulags: Writing and re-writing the humanistic canon / Sergei Dovlatov -- Dogs and their masters in police and prison service: 1960s-1980s / Abram Tertz -- The cult of the border guard dogs / Mikhail Bezrodnyi -- The hunter’s dog as hunted: White Bim Black Ear as the cult event of the Stagnation Era, 1970s-1980s / Ruvim Frayerman -- Transformation narratives: physical, metaphysical, scientific / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- Sleeping with the animal: boundary crossing in life and art (from pre-Revolutionary modernism to post-Soviet postmodernism) / Vasily Rozanov -- Conclusion: Dogs are ‘good |
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to think’ / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- Bibliography / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture -- Index / Editors Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture. |
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This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the representation of dogs in Russian discourse since the nineteenth century. Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems, in literature, film and other cultural productions, it shows that the dog as a political construct incorporates various contradictions, with different representations investing the dog with multiple, often-paradoxical meanings – moral, social and philosophical. From the peasantry’s dislike of the gentry’s hunting dogs and children’s cruelty to dogs in Pushkin and Dostoevsky to the establishment of the Soviet dynasties of border guard and police dogs, from Pavlov’s laboratory dogs to the monuments to the cosmic dog Laika and the subversive dog impersonations by the contemporary performance artist Oleg Kulik, the book explores the intersections of species-class-gender-sexuality-race-disability and, paradoxically, of Arcadian and Utopian dreams and scientific deeds. This study contributes to the unfolding cultural history of human-animal relations across cultures. |
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UNINA9910554867603321 |
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Bormashenko Edward Yu. |
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Physics of Wetting : Phenomena and Applications of Fluids on Surfaces / / Edward Yu. Bormashenko |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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3-11-043716-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations |
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Wetting |
Surface tension |
Capillarity |
Surfaces (Technology) |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Symbol index -- 1. What is surface tension? -- 2. Wetting of surfaces: the contact angle -- 3. Surface tension-assisted floating of heavy and light objects and walking of water striders -- 4. Capillary interactions between particles. Particles placed on liquid surfaces. Elasticity of liquid surfaces, covered by colloidal particles -- 5. Capillary waves -- 6. Oscillation of droplets -- 7. Marangoni flow and surface instabilities -- 8. Evaporation of droplets. The Kelvin and the coffee-stain effects -- 9. Condensation, growth and coalescence of droplets and the breath-figure self-assembly -- 10. Dynamics of wetting: bouncing, spreading and rolling of droplets (water hammer effect - water entry and drag-out problems) -- 11. Superhydrophobicity and superoleophobicity: the Wenzel and Cassie wetting regimes -- 12. The Leidenfrost effect. Liquid marbles: self-propulsion -- 13. Physics, geometry, life and death of soap films and bubbles -- Index |
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Motivated by a plethora of phenomena from nature, this textbook introduces into the physics of wetting of surfaces. After a brief |
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discussion of the foundations of surface tension, its implementation for floating objects, capillary waves, bouncing droplets, walking of water striders, etc. is discussed. Furthermore, Marangoni flows, surface tension inspired instabilities, condensation and evaporation of droplets, liquid marbles, superhydrophobicity and superoleophobicity (lotus effect) are introduced. All relevant concepts are illustrated by the numerous qualitative and quantitative exercises. ContentsWhat is surface tension?Wetting of surfaces: the contact angleSurface tension-assisted floating of heavy and light objects and walking of water stridersCapillary interactions between particles. Particles placed on liquid surfaces. Elasticity of liquid surfaces, covered by colloidal particlesCapillary wavesOscillation of dropletsMarangoni flow and surface instabilitiesEvaporation of droplets. The Kelvin and the coffee-stain effectsCondensation, growth and coalescence of droplets and the breath-figure self-assemblyDynamics of wetting: bouncing, spreading and rolling of droplets (water hammer effect - water entry and drag-out problems)Superhydrophobicity and superoleophobicity: the Wenzel and Cassie wetting regimesThe Leidenfrost effect. Liquid marbles: self-propulsionPhysics, geometry, life and death of soap films and bubbles |
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