1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000769779707536

Autore

Zheng, Fangyang

Titolo

Complex differential geometry / Fangyang Zheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : International Press, c2000

ISBN

0821821636

Descrizione fisica

xii, 264 p. ; 26 cm.

Collana

AMS/IP studies in advanced mathematics, 1089-3288 ; 18

Classificazione

AMS 53C55

QA331.7.Z48

Disciplina

516.36

Soggetti

Complex manifolds

Differential geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813030803321

Titolo

Perspectives on mobility / / edited by Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2013

ISBN

94-012-0964-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature, , 1871-689X ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

BerensmeyerIngo

EhlandChristoph

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration in literature

Movement in literature

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part one. Movement and the making of space -- part two. Conceptual spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155934803321

Autore

Kellner Douglas <1943->

Titolo

American nightmare : Donald Trump, media spectacle, and authoritarian populism / / Douglas Kellner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam, Netherlands ; ; Boston ; ; Taipei : , : Sense Publishers, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9789463007870

9463007873

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 110 p.)

Collana

Transgressions: cultural studies and education, , 2214-9740 ; ; v. 117

Disciplina

973.932092

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2016

Presidential candidates - United States

Political campaigns - United States - History - 21st century

Mass media - Political aspects - United States

Press and politics - United States

Authoritarianism - United States

Populism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Educating “Good” Citizens for a Globalized World: Two Different but Linked Countries -- Exploring the Potential to Educate “Good Citizens” through the Australian Civics and Citizenship Curriculum -- The “Good” Citizen for the 21st Century: A Curriculum Perspective -- Civic Virtue and Global Responsibilities: The Possibility of a Character-Based Approach to Educating Global Citizens in Australia -- Cultural Difference and Shared Values: A Critical Perspective on Being a Good Citizen, East and West -- Values Education and the Making of “Good” Citizens in Australia -- “Citizen” or “Simin”?: An Analysis of Secondary School Student Civic Virtues in China from the Perspective of Modernization -- To Show “Chinese Character”: Intercultural Education, Citizenship and National Identity -- On Identities of Community in Civic and Citizenship Education -- Being Good but Critical Citizens: A Comparison of Citizenship Curriculum in



China and Australia -- Author Biographies.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explaining the Donald Trump phenomenon is a challenge that will occupy critical theorists of U.S. politics for years to come. Firstly, Donald Trump won the Republican primary contest and is now a contender in the U.S. Presidential Election because he is the master of media spectacle, which he has deployed to create resonant images of himself in his business career, in his effort to become a celebrity and reality-TV superstar, and now his political campaign. More disturbingly, Trump embodies Authoritarian Populism and has used racism, nationalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the disturbing underside of American politics to mobilize his supporters in his successful Republican primary campaign and in the hotly contested 2016 general election. The Trump phenomenon is a teachable moment that helps us understand the changes and contour of U.S. politics in the contemporary moment and the role of broadcast media, new media and social networking, and the politics of the spectacle. Trump reveals the threat of authoritarian populism, a phenomenon that is now global in scope, and the dangers of the rise to power of an individual who is highly destructive, who represents the worst of the 1 percent billionaire business class who masquerades as a “voice of the forgotten man” as he advances a political agenda that largely benefits the rich and the military, and who is a clear and present danger to U.S. democracy and global peace. The book documents how Trump’s rise to global celebrity and now political power is bound up with his use of media spectacle and how his use of authoritarian populism has created a mass movement beyond his presidency and a danger to the traditions of U.S. democracy as well as economic security and world peace.".