1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910874663503321

Autore

Ronan Mark

Titolo

Addiction Literature's Past and Present / / by Mark Ronan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031654268

9783031654251

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 pages)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Medicine and the humanities

Science - History

Literature, Medieval

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

Literary History

Medical Humanities

History of Science

Medieval Literature

Classical and Antique Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Premodern Addiction and Addiction Literature -- Chapter One, Modern Conceptions of Addiction -- Chapter Two, Modern Addiction Literature -- Chapter Three, Premodern Addiction Discourse, Antiquity to Medieval -- Chapter Four, Addicted to Love -- Chapter Five, Anthropomorphised Beasts and Bestial Men -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues for Addiction Literature to be considered as a distinct literary phenomenon, with a history stretching back to Antiquity. Addiction, as it is understood in



this book, exists at the intersection between appetite, habit and impaired personal behavioural agency. This book begins by exploring the ways in which we articulate the experience (both lived and observed) of addiction today, uncovering a core set of conceptual components and discursive tropes which are commonly associated with modern understandings of the phenomenon. Having established a common set of tropes and features which distinguish modern Addiction Literature as a distinct literary mode, it then considers premodern texts through this lens, revealing similar patterns of conception and convention in a broad range of historical periods and literary genres from Aesop to Shakespeare. Mark Ronan is an adult literacy tutor working primarily with recovering substance-users and providing support for everything from basic literacy skills to creative and reflective personal writing. He also teaches and lectures with the School of English in University College Dublin, Ireland.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557333803321

Autore

Topakas Evangelos

Titolo

Environmental Biocatalysis : From Remediation to Waste Valorization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue aims to highlight the dual potential of novel biocatalytic processes, where the first part is dedicated to waste valorization for the production of high value products, while the second part is focused on the detoxification of pollutants. Several examples of microbial systems employed for the valorization of waste streams derived by the forest, agricultural, and food industries or the use of



whole-cell or enzyme approaches for the removal of nitrogen or dyes from industrial wastewaters are provided. Last but not least, an example of the utilization of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) was highlighted for the production of fatty acids, which were used for the enzymatic synthesis of sugar esters with antimicrobial properties.