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William KENNEDY is the author of Petrarchism at Work (2016), Environmental Policy and Time Consistency (2000), An Albany Trio (1996), The Entering Wedge (1904), Key to the Irish Commissioners' Treatise on Mensuration ....

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Petrarchism at Work

release date: Apr 19, 2016
Petrarchism at Work
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets—as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch’s legacy. Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet’s divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet’s acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pléiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces.

Environmental Policy and Time Consistency

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Environmental Policy and Time Consistency
As instruments for controlling pollution, how do emissions taxes and emissions trading compare in terms of the incentives they create to adopt cleaner technologies? Emissions taxes may have a slight advantage over emissions trading.

An Albany Trio

release date: Jul 01, 1996
An Albany Trio
“Kennedy''s justly acclaimed Albany Cycle [is] one of the imperishable products of American literature since the Second World War. These books can be read singly or in sequence, but read they must be. Kennedy is one of our necessary writers.”—GQ Legs inaugurated William Kennedy’s celebrated cycle of novels set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth. Legs evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany, and his showgirl mistress as they blaze a trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. The second novel in the Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, as he moves through the lurid nighttime glare of a tough Depression-era town. Full of Irish pluck, he works the fringes of Albany sporting life with his own particular style—until he falls from underworld grace. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany after killing a scab during a workers’ strike, and again after he accidentally—and fatally—dropped his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back, roaming familiar streets and trying to make peace with ghosts of the past and present. William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city’s netherworld, and its spheres of power—financial, ethnic, political—often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn’s Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.

Key to the Irish Commissioners' Treatise on Mensuration ...

The Kinematics of Machinery

release date: Aug 23, 2015
The Kinematics of Machinery
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas

release date: Aug 13, 2024
Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

Practical Surgery of the Joseph Price Hospital

Superior Performing Asphalt Pavements (Superpave)

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Superior Performing Asphalt Pavements (Superpave)
The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) was a highly focused, ambitious research effort that targeted four specific areas for intense study over the time frame from 1987 to 1993. Asphalt was one of the four study areas. This report describes the Superpave system, the final product of the asphalt research program; and the various parts that comprise its operational characteristics. In all, the final report of the SHRP Asphalt Research Program consists of five parts, the contents of which are briefly described in this report. Reference is made within this report to specific details within the other four parts for readers who want a more detailed description of the methodology, test methods, and theory behind Superpave.

Key to the Irish Commissioners'Treatise on Mensuration, for the use of schools

The Hydrolysis of Iodine and a Reaction with "propanol"

A Short Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Prince Albert, in Search of Sir John Franklin

A Short Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Prince Albert, in Search of Sir John Franklin
Journal of voyage to Prince Regent Inlet region, Canadian Arctic 1851-52.

Poverty Among Nonwhite Families in Texas and the Nation

A Survey of the Hearing and Speech Problems of 232 Boys in the Boys' Vocational School at Lansing, Michigan

The Mechanics of Machinery

release date: Oct 27, 2022
The Mechanics of Machinery
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Short Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Prince Albert, in Search of Sir John Franklin, Etc

Annals of Aberdeen, from the reign of king William the lion

Annals of Aberdeen from the Reign of King William the Lion, to the End of the Year 1818

Impact of Aggregate Gradation and Type on Asphalt Mixture Characteristics

release date: Jan 01, 1990
Impact of Aggregate Gradation and Type on Asphalt Mixture Characteristics
This thesis addresses the impact of aggregate gradation and type on Hot Mix Asphaltic Concrete (HMAC) characteristics. Several different, but related topics are covered and results from several experiments are presented. An overview of HMAC is presented, covering factors affecting mixture characteristics and performance in addition to a review of the literature relating to aggregate gradation and type. The results of a study of construction data from the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation (SDHPT) are presented. Two laboratory studies were conducted relating to asphalt content, aggregate gradation and aggregate type. The summarized results and interpretations of these results are included. The economic impact of specifications changes currently proposed by the SDHPT to improve HMAC quality is addressed. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are drawn based on all preceding material.

The Capitol in Albany

release date: Jan 01, 1986
The Capitol in Albany
Photographs of the New York State Capitol building are accompanied by a brief essay on its history.

The International Human Rights Movement

release date: Jan 01, 2002
The International Human Rights Movement
A timely and provocative reflection on the international human rights movement.

History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, & Kinetophonograph

Artists in Purgatory

release date: Apr 30, 2017
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