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Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

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Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements introduces the innovative applications of polymeric materials based on nanocellulose, and covers extraction methods, functionalization approaches, and assembly methods to enable these applications. The book presents the state-of-the-art of this novel nano-filler and how it enables new applications in many different sectors, beyond existing products. With a focus on application of nano-cellulose based polymers with multifunctional activity, the book explains the methodology of nano-cellulose extraction and production and shows the potential performance benefits of these particular nanostructured polymers, for applications across different sectors, including food active packaging, energy-photovoltaics, biomedical, and filtration. The book describes how the different methodologies, functionalization, and organization at the nano-scale level could contribute to the design of required properties at macro level. The book studies the interactions between the main nano-filler with other active systems and how this interaction enables multi-functionality in the produced materials. The book is an indispensable resource for the growing number of scientists and engineers interested in the preparation and novel applications of nano-cellulose, and for industrial scientists active in formulation and fabrication of polymer products based on renewable resources. - Provides insight into nanostructure formation science, and processing of polymeric materials and their characterization - Offers a strong analysis of real industry needs for designing the materials - Provides a well-balanced structure, including a light introduction of basic knowledge on extraction methods, functionalization approaches, and assembling focused to applications - Describes how different methodologies, functionalization, and organization at the nano-scale level could contribute to the design of required properties at macro level

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William Andrew

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0323417396

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The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy

By: Elena Fumagalli,Raffaella Morselli

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The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy

By: Elena Fumagalli,Raffaella Morselli

Up to now the theme of the artist in the service of Italian courts has been examined in various studies focused mostly on the High Renaissance, as though the phenomenon was relevant only to the XV and XVI centuries. It actually lasted much longer, spanning the whole longue durée of the lives of the courts of the ancient regime. The present volume intends to fill this gap, presenting for the first time a comprehensive examination of the subject of the court artist from sixteenth to seventeenth century and the transformations of this role. “Court artist” is here defined as one who received a regular salary, and was therefore attached to the court by a more or less exclusive service relationship. The book is divided in six chapters: each of them examines the position of the court artist in the service of the most important ruling families in Italy (the Savoy in Turin, the Gonzaga in Mantua, the Este in Modena, the Della Rovere in Pesaro and Urbino, the Medici in Florence) and in papal Rome, a particular and unique center of power.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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8867284371

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9788867284375

Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies

By: Elena Lamberti

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Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies

By: Elena Lamberti

One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan's birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original 'mosaic' form of writing. In this investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the arts, Lamberti proposes a new approach to McLuhan's thought. Lamberti delves into McLuhan's humanism in light of his work on media and culture, exploring how he began to perceive literature not just as a subject, but a 'function inseparable from communal existence.' Lamberti pays particular attention to the central role played by Modernism in the making of his theories, including the writings of Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Wyndham Lewis. Reconnecting McLuhan with his literary past, Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic is a demonstration of one of his greatest ideas: that literature not only matters, but can help us understand the hidden patterns that rule our environment.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442640138

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9781442640139

Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue

The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory

By: Elena Bollinger

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Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue

The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory

By: Elena Bollinger

This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes’s fiction and Russian classical literature, but also this writer’s interpretative, mostly imaginative, integration of Russian literature and culture into his work as a novelist. Exploring the double meaning of a literary metaphor as a mnemonic image of memory and a product of imagination, it offers a comprehensive analysis of Barnes’s texts which play with intertextuality as an efficient tool of displacement of official memory, providing a deeper understanding of historical and cultural processes related to the constantly moving architecture of transcultural memory.

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231

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Taylor & Francis

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1000822036

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9781000822038

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

By: Nino Pirrotta,Elena Povoledo

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Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

By: Nino Pirrotta,Elena Povoledo

This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521232597

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9780521232593

New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Elena P. Ivanova,Kateryna Bazaka,R. J Crawford

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New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Elena P. Ivanova,Kateryna Bazaka,R. J Crawford

New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare provides a concise summary of the latest developments in key types of biomaterials. The book begins with an overview of the use of biomaterials in contemporary healthcare and the process of developing novel biomaterials; the key issues and challenges associated with the design of complex implantable systems are also highlighted. The book then reviews the main materials used in functional biomaterials, particularly their properties and applications. Individual chapters focus on both natural and synthetic polymers, metallic biomaterials, and bio-inert and bioactive ceramics. Advances in processing technologies and our understanding of materials and their properties have made it possible for scientists and engineers to develop more sophisticated biomaterials with more targeted functionality. New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare provides an ideal one-volume summary of this important field that represents essential reading for scientists, engineers, and clinicians, and a useful reference text for undergraduate and postgraduate students. - Provides a concise summary of the latest developments in key types of biomaterials - Highlights key issues and challenges associated with the design of complex implantable systems - Chapters focus on both natural and synthetic polymers, metallic biomaterials, and bio-inert and bioactive ceramics

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Woodhead Publishing

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1782422668

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9781782422662

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

By: Elena Lombardi

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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

By: Elena Lombardi

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval times. From Guittone d'Arezzo's piercing critic, the 'villainous woman', to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante's female co-editors in the Vita Nova and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the Comedy, all the way to Boccaccio's overtly female audience, this particular interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority. This volume explores the figure of the woman reader by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her. It argues that these figures are not mere veneers between a male author and a 'real' male readership, but that, although fictional, they bring several advantages to their vernacular authors, such as orality, the mother tongue, the recollection of the delights of early education, literality, freedom in interpretation, absence of teleology, the beauties of ornamentation and amplification, a reduced preoccupation with the fixity of the text, the pleasure of making mistakes, dialogue with the other, the extension of desire, original simplicity, and new and more flexible forms of authority.

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Oxford University Press

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0192550942

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9780192550941

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

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By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

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Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy

The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue

Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

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