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UNINA9911094440503321 |
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Titolo |
What is a poet? : essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature / / edited by Hank Lazer |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1987 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Modern & Contemporary Poetics |
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American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
Poetry |
English poetry - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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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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This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world. |
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UNINA9911145822903321 |
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Autore |
Perrier Edmond <1844-1921.> |
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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 |
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Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2009 |
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[1st ed. 2009.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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McBirneyAlexander R |
CookStanton A |
RetallackGreg J <1951-> (Greg John) |
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Zoology - History |
Zoology - Philosophy |
Evolution - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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