1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911094440503321

Titolo

What is a poet? : essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature / / edited by Hank Lazer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1987

ISBN

0-8173-8335-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Altri autori (Persone)

LazerHank

Disciplina

811.509

811/.5/09

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Poetry

English poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes  bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; THE SYMPOSIUM; The Character of the Poet; What Modernism Offers the Contemporary Poet; Keats and the Use of Poetry; Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical ""Choice"" and Historical Formation; In Search of an Absolute; Horses with Wings; Blood on the Cutting Room Floor; What is This Poet?; Poetry as Symbolic Action; PANEL DISCUSSION; All nine participants, plus comoderators Hank Lazer and Gregory Jay; ADDITIONAL ESSAYS; Poetry and Ambition; Critical Theory and Contemporary American Poetry; Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors

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Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the  misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911145822903321

Autore

Perrier Edmond <1844-1921.>

Titolo

The philosophy of zoology before Darwin : a translated and annotated version of the original French text by Edmond Perrier : originally published by Felix Alcan, Paris in 1884 / / translated by Alex McBirney, with annotations by Stanton Cook and Gregory Retallack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2009

ISBN

90-481-3009-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McBirneyAlexander R

CookStanton A

RetallackGreg J <1951-> (Greg John)

Disciplina

590.9

Soggetti

Zoology - History

Zoology - Philosophy

Evolution - Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aristotle -- The Roman Period -- The Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Evolution of the Concept of Species -- Philosophers of the XVIIIth Century -- Buffon -- Lamarck -- Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire -- Georges Cuvier -- Debate between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire -- Goethe -- Dugès -- The German Natural Philosophers -- The Theory of the Organic Types and its Consequences -- Louis Agassiz -- The Lower Animals -- Cell Theory and the Constitution of the Individual -- Embryology -- Species and their Modifications.

Sommario/riassunto

This long-overlooked survey of the development of evolutionary theory is by far the most thorough and balanced account of its kind. Unlike most of the recent Anglo-centric literature that tends to focus almost exclusively on Darwin and natural selection, it follows the work of naturalists of many nationalities who used paleontology, comparative anatomy, and embryology in order to establish a linear continuity of evolving life though the long span of geological time. Thorough historical survey of the development of the concept of evolution before the publication of Darwin’s 'The Origin of Species'. Providing an



alternative view of the recent literature and journal articles commemorating Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of publication of 'The Origin of Species'. Richly annotated with up to date information and explanations of the changing concepts and terminology as well as featuring an extensive Glossary and Biographical index.