Author: Paisley RekdalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556594977
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Incorporating photography and rigorous research, Imaginary Vessels makes history personal and the personal historical.
Imaginary Vessels
Author: Paisley RekdalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556594977
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Incorporating photography and rigorous research, Imaginary Vessels makes history personal and the personal historical.
A Practical Treatise on Propelling Vessels by Steam
Author: Robertson BuchananBureau of Ships Journal
Author: The Ships of the New Navy
Author: Official Gazette
Author: PhilippinesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Consolidated Tables of Duties for Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, in Great Britain and Ireland, Chargeable on Coasting Vessels
Author: Trinity House (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Syren & Shipping Illustrated
Author: Bureau of Ships Journal
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of ShipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Ship
Author: Gregory VotolatoPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230141
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From oar-powered quinqueremes, to steam-powered freighters, to luxury ocean liners such as the Titanic,to aircraft carriers like the Abraham Lincoln,ships have played an integral role in trade, transportation, and war throughout history. Today, ships remain the largest and most expensive moving objects on the planet; engineers and designers constantly push the limits of design, creating vessels that continue to rival newer technologies such as airplanes and cars. But unlike other more common modes of transportation, the great ships of the world travel in the deep oceans, out of sight and out of mind—until, that is, something goes wrong. In Ship, Gregory Votolato explores the fiction and the reality of modern ships, the technology that creates them, and the events that can lead to disasters such as the Exxon Valdez or Amoco Cadiz. Here Votolato delves into the world of the ship, describing the unpredictable and often-hostile environment of weather at sea, the resurgent threats posed by pirates, and the responsibilities of captains and crews onboard. Ship’sbroad overview of technology and design also offers unique insights into this extraordinary result of human creativity. Votolato’s book will appeal to readers interested in the general design history of ships as well as their social, political, and technological impact on our modern world.
Changing Subjects
Author: Srikanth ReddyPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199791023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress our critical bias toward a fatalistic poetics of rupture and fragmentation by foregrounding a fluent tradition of writers from Walt Whitman to John Ashbery who explore digression, rather than disjunction, as a rhetorical strategy for the making of modern poetry.Mapping the ramifying topography of literary digression, Changing Subjects offers a wide-ranging anatomy of "the excursus" within twentieth-century American poetics. Moving from aesthetics to the archive to narratology to figures of identity, Reddy considers various spheres in which American writers revisit and revise our models of purposeful discourse by cultivating a poetics of digression in modern literature. In new readings of authors such as Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, and Lyn Hejinian, this study proposes that "changing the subject" offers a digressive method for negotiating the vexing complexities of art, knowledge, history, and subjectivity under the curious conditions of modernity. The book concludes with a survey of "Elliptical" strategies employed by a new generation of poets, writing in the wake of John Ashbery's aleatory craft, who seek to extend the digressive project of American poetry into the twenty-first century.