The occurrence of racemic and enantiomerically enriched (scalemic) mixtures of secondary
metabolites in their natural sources is a rare phenomenon. The unprecedent case of …

Cormac McCarthy's ecocentric style has received continuous critical attention at least since
Vereen Bell's pioneering work in the early 1980s, and ultimately, critics seem to have settled …

Abstract Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road contains at least one heretofore unrecognized
likely allusion to Joyce's Ulysses: the father's description of his son as a “firedrake,” which …

The origins and conceptual definitions of the words handedness, asymmetry, chirality, and
helicity are provided. The confusions prevailing in the use of these words are clarified …

This dissertation examines the relationship between southern flood narratives and the
epistemological changes wrought by the Anthropocene epoch in the past hundred years. It …