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UNISA996207550903316 |
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Autore |
Grishakova Marina |
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Titolo |
The models of space, time and vision in V. Nabokov's fiction : narrative strategies and cultural frames / / Marina Grishakova |
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Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2012 |
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Estonia : , : Tartu University Press, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Tartu Semiotics Library ; ; 5 |
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Languages & Literatures |
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Models and Metaphors -- II. The Models of Time -- III. The Model of the Observer -- IV. The Models of Vision -- V. The Doubles and Mirrors --Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of “modeling” in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in (post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman’s conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche’s and Bergson’s philosophy of time, Minkowski’s research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov’s fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual “prostheses” and “machines” (Eco), particularly the “camera vision” metaphor, its relation to Bergson’s notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is thematized |
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also as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty’s dilemma of “autonomy” and “solidarity” as applied to Nabokov’s work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader’s modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning. |
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UNINA9910956924503321 |
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Gulf War and health : updated literature review of depleted uranium / / Committee on Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium, Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008 |
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9786611800314 |
9780309177771 |
0309177774 |
9781281800312 |
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9780309119207 |
0309119200 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Depleted uranium - Environmental aspects - United States |
Depleted uranium - Health aspects - United States |
Persian Gulf syndrome - United States |
Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Health aspects - United States |
Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Veterans - Diseases - United States |
Post-traumatic stress disorder - United States |
Uranium enrichment - By-products |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Stand-alone book; not a part of the Gulf War and health series according to Dir. of Publishing Services, National Academies Press. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Background""; ""3 Toxicology""; ""4 Methodology""; ""5 Exposure Assessment""; ""6 Clinical End Points of Interest""; ""7 Cohort Descriptions""; ""8 Conclusions""; ""Index"" |
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The 1991 Persian Gulf War was considered a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. A large number of returning veterans, however, soon began reporting health problems that they believed to be associated with their service in the gulf. Under a Congressional mandate, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is reviewing a wide array of biologic, chemical, and physical agents to determine if exposure to these agents may be responsible for the veterans' health problems. In a 2000 report, Gulf War and Health, Volume 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, and Vaccines, the IOM concluded that there was not enough evidence to draw conclusions as to whether long-term health problems are associated with exposure to depleted uranium, a component of some military munitions and armor. In response to veterans' ongoing concerns and recent publications in the literature, IOM updated its 2000 report. In this most recent report, Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium, the committee concluded that there is still not enough evidence to determine whether exposure to depleted uranium is associated with long-term health problems. The report was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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