In this book-one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature-Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent ...engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts.
Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita's approach reveals Joyce's keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin's ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce's work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.
Photonic crystals Joannopoulos, John D; Johnson, Steven G; Winn, Joshua N ...
2011., 2008-02-11
eBook
Since it was first published in 1995, "Photonic Crystals" has remained the definitive text for both undergraduates and researchers on photonic band-gap materials and their use in controlling the ...propagation of light. This newly expanded and revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, providing the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive book available on these novel materials and their applications. Starting from Maxwell's equations and Fourier analysis, the authors develop the theoretical tools of photonics using principles of linear algebra and symmetry, emphasizing analogies with traditional solid-state physics and quantum theory.They then investigate the unique phenomena that take place within photonic crystals at defect sites and surfaces, from one to three dimensions. This new edition includes entirely new chapters describing important hybrid structures that use band gaps or periodicity only in some directions: periodic waveguides, photonic-crystal slabs, and photonic-crystal fibers. The authors demonstrate how the capabilities of photonic crystals to localize light can be put to work in devices such as filters and splitters. A new appendix provides an overview of computational methods for electromagnetism.Existing chapters have been considerably updated and expanded to include many new three-dimensional photonic crystals, an extensive tutorial on device design using temporal coupled-mode theory, discussions of diffraction and refraction at crystal interfaces, and more. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, "Photonic Crystals" is an indispensable resource for students and researchers. Extensively revised and expanded, this book: features improved graphics throughout; includes new chapters on photonic-crystal fibers and combined index-and band-gap-guiding; provides an introduction to coupled-mode theory as a powerful tool for device design; and, covers many new topics, including omnidirectional reflection, anomalous refraction and diffraction, computational photonics, and much more.
One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he ...always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and aging, joy and lunacy.  He celebrates family and Christmas. He laughs and tells terrible lies, and jokes.  He runs half-marathons, and on a farm in Nova Scotia, he tries to write his Walden . “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!” Edna St. Vincent Millay once exclaimed. In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love, wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close. Pickering has written 28 books and 100s of articles. The subject matter of the books ranges. Three are scholarly studies, two of which focus on 18th century children’s literature. Four are travel books, three of these describing his family’s meanderings in Australia. One book mulls teaching, and another is a memoir. The rest of Pickering’s books are collections of familiar essays, providing his take or perhaps “untake” on things. “Reading Pickering,” a reviewer wrote in the Smithsonian, “is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend.”
Conversación con Pedro Suárez Martín Palenzuela, Nilo; Martín, Pedro Suárez
Guaraguao (Barcelona, Spain),
01/2024, Volume:
27, Issue:
75
Journal Article
Al llegar, mis brazos de niño no servían para el trabajo. En mayo del 68 realizaba mis estudios en La Sorbona. El proyecto no cuajó: fue el momento de ir a trabajar a Gabón. Algunos se han convertido ...en amigos. ¿Cómo empieza esta aproximación? «Un lièvre en son gîte songeait (car que faire en un gîte, à moins que fon ne songe?)», escribió Jean de Lafontaine en su fabula Le lièvre et les grenouilles. Sin renunciar a ninguno de mis dos idiomas. Todos mis traducidos han sido también mis amigos. Y algunas otras: Ľenfant noir, de Camara Laye; Les bouts de bois de Dieu y Le mandat, de Ousmane Sembène; Soundjata, de D. T. Niane; ĽAventure ambiguë, de Cheikh Hamidou Kane; Le vieux nègre et la médaille, de Ferdinand Oyono. Hay que preguntárselo a ellos; hay que ir a aprender con ellos el arte de vencer sin tener razón.
