American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-72339-0
1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461388503321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789532403321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799921103321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810472903321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [[electronic resource] ] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462624203321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [[electronic resource] ] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Crime
Medieval Culture Medieval Law Medieval Literature Punishment |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786436603321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820547603321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Insult to injury : violence in Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino art & literature / / edited by Debra Andrist |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Eastbourne, England : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
Disciplina | 810.9868073 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism
Spanish American literature - History and criticism Spanish literature - History and criticism Violence in literature Social control in literature Violence in art |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-78284-378-7 |
Classificazione | SOC044000LIT004050 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151561803321 |
Eastbourne, England : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language and control in children's literature / / Murray Knowles and Kirsten Malmkjaer |
Autore | Knowles Murray <1948, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9282 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Malmkj�rKirsten |
Soggetto topico |
Children's stories, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Social control in literature Discourse analysis, Literary Children - Books and reading English language - Rhetoric Speech acts (Linguistics) Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-88435-4
0-585-44720-9 0-203-41975-8 1-280-32143-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Children's literature in England; Literature as a carrier of ideology: children's literature and control; Traditional juvenile fiction; Today's young reader; The fairytale; Fantasy fiction; Last thoughts; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451529703321 |
Knowles Murray <1948, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language and control in children's literature / / Murray Knowles and Kirsten Malmkjaer |
Autore | Knowles Murray <1948, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9282 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MalmkjaerKirsten |
Soggetto topico |
Children's stories, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Social control in literature Discourse analysis, Literary Children - Books and reading English language - Rhetoric Speech acts (Linguistics) Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
ISBN |
1-134-88434-6
1-134-88435-4 0-585-44720-9 0-203-41975-8 1-280-32143-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Children's literature in England; Literature as a carrier of ideology: children's literature and control; Traditional juvenile fiction; Today's young reader; The fairytale; Fantasy fiction; Last thoughts; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783896103321 |
Knowles Murray <1948, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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