1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451655303321

Autore

Boileau Despréaux Nicolas <1636-1711.>

Titolo

Selected poems [[electronic resource] /] / Nicholas Boileau ; translated from the French by Burton Raffel ; introduction by Julia Prest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-73481-0

9786611734817

0-300-13484-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (82 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RaffelBurton

Disciplina

841/.1

Soggetti

French poetry - 17th century

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- From Eireaball Spideoige (1952) -- From Brosna (1964) -- From Línte Liombó (1971) -- From Tar Éis mo Bháis (1978) -- Seán Ó Ríordáin, a brief chronology -- Afterword -- Notes -- Notes on the translators

Sommario/riassunto

French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today critics see his achievement as more varied and complex than the label of classicism generally allows. This selection of Boileau's poems, translated with spirit and carefully annotated by Burton Raffel, brings the work of Boileau to English-speaking readers for the first time in a generation. Much admired for his wit and ingenuity, Boileau perceived the role of the satirist as the scourge of bad writing and delighted in the notion of "l'ami du vrai," the brash truth-teller and enemy of humbug, inflation, and equivocation. Raffel's translations, vigorous and engaging, preserve the meaning of Boileau's poems and invite today's reader to enjoy the poet's astute perceptions. Julia Prest's insightful introduction to the volume provides an overview of Boileau's life and achievement.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828656203321

Autore

Pigola Stefano <1973->

Titolo

Maximum principles on Riemannian manifolds and applications / / Stefano Pigola, Marco Rigoli, Alberto G. Setti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

1-4704-0423-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 822

Disciplina

510 s

515/.3534

Soggetti

Differential equations, Parabolic

Heat equation

Diffusion processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 174, number 822 (second of 4 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""0. Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Preliminaries and some geometric motivations""; ""Chapter 2. Further typical applications of Yau's technique""; ""Chapter 3. Stochastic Completeness and the Weak Maximum Principle""; ""Chapter 4. The Weak Maximum Principle for the α-Laplacian""; ""Chapter 5. α-parabolicity and Some Further Remarks""; ""Chapter 6. Curvature and the Maximum Principle for the α-Laplacian""; ""Bibliography""