Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot and the Modernist Thunderbolt

Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot and the Modernist Thunderbolt

Author: A. Michael Matin

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 1535850299

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Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot and the Modernist Thunderbolt is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.


To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Author: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: Union Square Press

Published: 2023-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781435172845

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The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays.


Oil & War

Oil & War

Author: Robert Goralski

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.


The Poetry of John Tyndall

The Poetry of John Tyndall

Author: Roland Jackson

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1787359107

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John Tyndall (1822–1893) is best known as a leading natural philosopher and trenchant public intellectual of the Victorian age. He discovered the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, explained why the sky is blue, and spoke and wrote controversially on the relationship between science and religion. Few people were aware that he also wrote poetry. The Poetry of John Tyndall contains his 76 extant poems, the majority of which have not been transcribed or published before, and are succinctly annotated in a style similar to that used for the letters published in The Correspondence of John Tyndall.The poems are complemented by an extended introduction, which was written by the three editors together as a multidisciplinary analysis. The essay aims to facilitate readings by a range of people interested in the history of Victorian science and of Victorian science and literature. It explores what the poems can tell us about Tyndall’s self-fashioning, his values and beliefs, and the role of poetry for him and his circle. More broadly, the essay addresses the relationship between the scientific and poetic imaginations, and wider questions of the nature and purpose of poetry in relation to science and religion in the nineteenth century.


Augustan Culture

Augustan Culture

Author: Karl Galinsky

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1998-02-15

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780691058900

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Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.


The Information

The Information

Author: James Gleick

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0307379574

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From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award


Inventing Eastern Europe

Inventing Eastern Europe

Author: Larry Wolff

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780804727020

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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.