1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829081003321

Autore

Boeschenstein Hermann <1900-1982, >

Titolo

The German novel, 1939-1944 / / H. Boeschenstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1949

©1949

ISBN

1-4426-3386-7

1-4426-3218-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

833.91409

Soggetti

German fiction

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Form and content -- Peasant life -- Proletarian life -- Medicine -- Art -- Education -- Foreign countries -- History -- Fundamental moods -- Entertainment -- The Western tradition.

Sommario/riassunto

This book begins the large task of sorting out the vast number of German literary works which the war has piled up before us. The author has culled over four hundred novels and critical works and by indicating the numbers and content of the more significant novels, and some of their stylistic characteristics, he has shortened the task of future research. If this investigation provides a fair indication, it appears that the widely held conviction that German publishers brought out nothing but trash during the war years is mistaken. By now, students of literature should be in a sufficiently intelligent and tolerant mood to accept some detailed evidence and to begin to scrutinize it objectively. The present study is intended as a step in that direction.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961031103321

Autore

Johnson Kristin <1973->

Titolo

Ordering life : Karl Jordan and the naturalist tradition / / Kristin Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0650-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 p.)

Disciplina

595.7092

B

Soggetti

Entomologists

Taxonomists

Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-365) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Joining the Naturalist Tradition -- "Beetles. Beautiful beetles" -- Becoming a Zoologist -- The Cosmopolitan Naturalists -- The "nice berth": Curating a Zoological Museum -- Mobilizing the Naturalist Tradition -- 2 Reforming Entomology -- The "strange mixture" of Entomologists -- How to Do Entomology -- The "making" of Species -- A New Type of Collection -- Retraining the Natural History Network -- 3 Ordering Beetles, Butterflies, and Moths -- "The great desideratum" -- Revising the Swallowtails -- Making Systematics Scientific -- Crossing over to Biology -- Amassing the Concreta -- 4 Ordering Naturalists -- Men of Two Classes -- Organizing Entomologists -- The End of Tring's Heyday -- "Science knows no country" -- A "nation of Entomologists" -- 5 A Descent into Disorder -- Telling "which way the wind blows" -- The Balance of Europe Is Upset -- The Standstill -- Recovering Friends, Committees, and Congresses I -- "The requirements for a thorough investigation" -- 6 Taxonomy in a Changed World -- The Rise of Applied Entomology -- "Something amiss" -- Various Utopias I: The Ithaca Congress -- Various Utopias II: The International Entomological Institute -- A Lad's Last Marble -- 7 The Ruin of War and the Synthesis of Biology -- The Edges of Empire -- Where Subspecies Meet -- "The end of Tring as we have known and cherished it" -- "Provided Europe



does not get quite mad" -- "Without the collection I am hopeless" -- 8 Naturalists in a New Landscape -- Recovering Friends, Committees, and Congresses II -- The Quest to "clear up the chaos" in Weevils and Fleas -- Avoiding the Snake in the Grass -- Glorified Office Boys -- Late for a Knighthood -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.

U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

Sommario/riassunto

The broader social context in which scientists work is just as important to the project of naming, describing, classifying, and, ultimately, explaining life.