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Nordic and European Modernisms
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works published in Western Europe and the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. Presenting Nordic art as multi-dimensional and dynamic, it also shows that, while responding to aspects of these innovative works, Nordic modernism itself contributed to modernism as a complex international trend. The plural form “modernisms” in the book’s title indicates that the contributors adopt an understanding of modernism that, while recognizing the importance of the modernist movement between circa 1890 and 1940, is sufficiently elastic to include various forms of extension and continuation of Nordic modernisms in the post-war period. The book shows that the experience of crisis—cultural, political, moral, aesthetic—that underlies modernist artists’ invention of radically new forms of expression was by no means limited to just one country or one identifiable group of writers; nor was it, as modernisms’ global relevance makes clear, restricted to just one continent. At the level of historical reality, the First World War represents the culmination of a crisis which had its beginnings several decades earlier. The Second World War, along with the Holocaust, represents a second culmination of the crisis, and there is, this book suggests, a sense in which the experience of crisis has continued to influence and shape Nordic literature written in the post-war period. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the experience of crisis has increasingly been extended to include a growing uncertainty about the future prompted by the reality of climate change.


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Nordic and European Modernisms
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This e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works published in Western Europe and the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. Presenting Nordic art as multi-dimensional and dynamic, it also shows that, while responding to aspects of these innovative works, Nordic modernism itself contributed to modernism as a complex international trend. The plural form “modernisms” in the book’s title indicates that the contributors adopt an understanding of modernism that, while recognizing the importance of the modernist movement between circa 1890 and 1940, is sufficiently elastic to include various forms of extension and continuation of Nordic modernisms in the post-war period. The book shows that the experience of crisis—cultural, political, moral, aesthetic—that underlies modernist artists’ invention of radically new forms of expression was by no means limited to just one country or one identifiable group of writers; nor was it, as modernisms’ global relevance makes clear, restricted to just one continent. At the level of historical reality, the First World War represents the culmination of a crisis which had its beginnings several decades earlier. The Second World War, along with the Holocaust, represents a second culmination of the crisis, and there is, this book suggests, a sense in which the experience of crisis has continued to influence and shape Nordic literature written in the post-war period. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the experience of crisis has increasingly been extended to include a growing uncertainty about the future prompted by the reality of climate change.


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Pollination and floral ecology
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ISBN: 9780691128610 0691128618 9786613310408 1283310406 1400838940 9781400838943 9781283310406 6613310409 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, [England] : Princeton University Press,

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Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with beetles, birds, bats, bees, and other creatures. The ecology of these interactions is covered in depth, including the timing and patterning of flowering, competition among flowering plants to attract certain visitors and deter others, and the many ways plants and animals can cheat each other. Pollination and Floral Ecology pays special attention to the prevalence of specialization and generalization in animal-flower interactions, and examines how a lack of distinction between casual visitors and true pollinators can produce misleading conclusions about flower evolution and animal-flower mutualism. This one-of-a-kind reference also gives insights into the vital pollination services that animals provide to crops and native flora, and sets these issues in the context of today's global pollination crisis. Provides the most up-to-date resource on pollination and floral ecology Describes flower advertising features and rewards, foraging and learning by flower-visiting animals, behaviors of generalist and specialist pollinators--and more Examines the ecology and evolution of animal-flower interactions, from the molecular to macroevolutionary scale Features hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations

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Pollination --- Pollination by insects --- Pollination by animals --- Plant ecology --- Pollinisation --- Pollination. --- Pollination by insects. --- Pollination by animals. --- Plant ecology. --- Pollinisation par les insectes --- Pollinisation par les animaux --- Ecologie végétale --- Insect pollination --- Pollinization --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Animal-plant relationships --- Fertilization of plants by insects --- Fertilization of plants --- Flowers --- Phanerogams --- Pollen --- Self-incompatibility --- Pollinisation. --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Diptera. --- Lepidoptera. --- Megachiroptera. --- Microchiroptera. --- abiotic pollination. --- advertisement. --- amphibian. --- anemophilous plant. --- anemophily. --- angiosperm. --- animal pollination. --- animal. --- animals. --- animalЦlower interaction. --- ant. --- bat pollination. --- bats. --- bee pollination. --- bee. --- bees. --- beetle. --- behavior. --- bird pollination. --- birds. --- bumblebee. --- butterfly. --- carrion fly. --- chiropterophily. --- color vision. --- conifer. --- cost. --- cross-fertilization. --- cross-pollination. --- diversification. --- ectotherm vertebrate. --- feeding apparatus. --- fish. --- floral color. --- floral constancy. --- floral design. --- floral display. --- floral divergence. --- floral odor. --- floral pigment. --- floral scent. --- floral sex. --- floral shape. --- floral signal. --- floral size. --- floral tissue. --- floral variation. --- flower evolution. --- flower morphology. --- flower pollination. --- flower visitor. --- flower. --- flowering. --- flowers. --- flowerаollinator interaction. --- fly pollination. --- foraging behavior. --- generalist flower. --- generalist visitor. --- grasshopper. --- hawkmoth. --- honeybee. --- hoverfly. --- hummingbird. --- hydrophily. --- inflorescence. --- insect. --- invertebrate. --- learning. --- marsupial. --- melittophily. --- monkey. --- mutualism. --- nectar biology. --- nectar concentration. --- nectar gathering. --- nectar guide. --- nectar production. --- nectar secretion. --- nectar volume. --- nectar. --- nectary. --- nonflying mammal. --- nonflying vertebrate. --- odor learning. --- oil. --- olfaction. --- olfactory signal. --- ornithophily. --- perching bird. --- phalaenophily. --- plant diversity. --- plant fertilization. --- plant mating. --- plant pollination. --- plant reproduction. --- plant sex. --- plant speciation. --- plant. --- plants. --- pollen biology. --- pollen competition. --- pollen eating. --- pollen gathering. --- pollen packaging. --- pollen. --- pollination biology. --- pollination ecology. --- pollination syndromes. --- pollination. --- pollinator effectiveness. --- pollinator. --- psychophily. --- reproductive isolation. --- resin. --- reward. --- scent. --- selection. --- self-fertilization. --- selfing. --- sexual function. --- sociality. --- specialist flower. --- specialization. --- speciation. --- sphingophily. --- stigmatic exudate. --- thrip. --- visitation pattern. --- visual signal. --- wasp. --- wax. --- wind pollination.

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