1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996218146703316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Jonathan Swift / / edited by Christopher Fox [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

9780511998775 (electronic book)

1-139-81653-5

0-511-99877-5

1-280-16052-7

0-511-11946-1

0-511-06348-2

0-511-20347-0

0-511-32616-5

0-511-07194-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Disciplina

828/.509

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-265) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Swift's life / Joseph McMinn -- Politics and history / David Oakleaf -- Swift the Irishman / Carole Fabricant -- Swift's reading / Brean Hammond -- Swift and women / Margaret Anne Doody -- Swift's satire and parody / Michael F. Suarez -- Money and economics / Patrick Kelly -- Language and style / Ian Higgins -- Swift and religion / Marcus Walsh -- Swift the poet / Pat Rogers -- A Tale of Tub and early prose / Judith C. Mueller -- Gulliver's Travels and the later writings / J. Paul Hunter -- Classic Swift / Seamus Deane.

Sommario/riassunto

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing -



including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828004803321

Autore

Murray Robin L.

Titolo

Film and everyday eco-disasters / / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-5515-2

0-8032-5514-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Disciplina

070.1/8

Soggetti

Environmental protection and motion pictures

Ecology in motion pictures

Documentary films - History and criticism

Documentary films - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: cinematic ecodisasters and our basic human needs -- Human approaches to the ecology of air, water, and clothing. At the boiling point: the aesthetics of atmospheric pollution and climate change in documentary and feature films -- James Bond and water wars in contemporary film: a new ecowarrior? -- Ready to wear? from fashion to environmental justice -- Ecodocumentaries and the rhetoric of food production. Contemporary ecofood films: the documentary



tradition -- Flipper? We're eating Flipper? documenting animals rights and environmental ethics at sea -- Negative externalities of housing and energy industries -- Give me shelter: the ecology of homes and homelessness -- Activism in mountaintop removal films: turn off the lights for sustainability -- The search for the "golden shrimp": the myth of interdependence in oil drilling films -- Conclusion: can the film industry and the environmental movement mix?

Sommario/riassunto

Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy.     Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the w