1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005878720203316

Autore

GAY, Jules <1867-1935>

Titolo

L'Italia meridionale e l'impero bizantino : dall'avvento di Basilio I alla resa di Bari ai Normanni (867-1071) / Giulio Gay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : Libreria della Voce, 1917

Descrizione fisica

XXVII, 610 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Dalla Biblioteca delle scuole francesi di Atene e di Roma ; 90

Disciplina

945.702

Soggetti

Italia meridionale Dominazione [dell'] Impero d'Oriente 867-1071

Collocazione

XV.2.B. 275

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778615603321

Titolo

Mathematical research in materials science [[electronic resource] ] : opportunities and perspectives / / Committee on the Mathematical Sciences Applied to Materials Science, Board on Mathematical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-19595-9

9786610195954

0-309-58565-1

0-585-15395-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Disciplina

620.1/1/072

Soggetti

Materials science - Research

Mathematics - Research

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. 103-125).

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965280303321

Autore

Dougherty David C

Titolo

Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin / / David C. Dougherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

9786613028891

9781283028899

1283028891

9780252091018

0252091019

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "A Sum of Private Frequencies -- 2. When Stanley Elkin Was a Little Boy: New York and Chicago, 1930-48 -- 3. College, Graduate School, and the Army, 1948-57 -- 4. Family Crises, Graduate School, and a Literary Career, 1957-60 -- 5. "Become a Strong Man": St. Louis, Europe, First Base, Full Houses, and the Big Time, 1960-65 -- 6. "Convicted of His Character": Kibitzers, A Bad Man, Additions, and Catastrophe, 1965-68 -- 7. "Strange Displacements of the Ordinary": Recovery and The Dick Gibson Show, 1968-70 -- 8. "Blessèd Form": Novellas, a Sabbatical Year Abroad, and a Death Sentence, 1971-73 -- 9. "Making America Look Like America": Hollywood Beckons, a Breakthrough Novel, and a Cane, 1974-77 -- 10. Heaven and Hell, St. Louis and Mexico, the First Crusade, and South America: Life's Greatest



Hits and a Major Disappointment, 1978-82 -- 11. Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88 -- 12. "But I Am Getting Ahead of Myself": Back to the Movies, Another Trilogy, More Awards, and the Last Years, 1989-94 -- 13. "The Stanley Elkin Chair": The Silence Descends, Posthumous Fiction, and Awards -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his death in 1995, Elkin was tormented by the desire for both material and artistic success. Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin. Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkins's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as the son of a charismatic, intimidating, and remarkably successful Jewish immigrant from Russia, as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. Despite failed attempts to bridge the gap from his academic post to wide popular success, Elkin continued to write essays, stories, and novels that garnered unerring praise. His was a classic dilemma of an intellectual aesthete loath to make use of the common devices of popular appeal. The book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted.