1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145589203321

Titolo

A concise companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Corinne Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-4051-6498-0

1-78268-435-2

1-281-30836-6

9786611308360

0-470-75762-0

1-4051-5462-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

SaundersCorinne J. <1963->

Disciplina

821.1

821/.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Politics and London life / Marion Turner -- Manuscripts and audience / Julia Boffey and Tony Edwards -- Books and authority / Robert F. Yeager -- Courtly writing / Barry Windeatt -- Dreaming / Steven Kruger -- Love in wartime: Troilus and Criseyde as Trojan history / Andrew Lynch -- Love and the making of the self: Troilus and Criseyde / Corinne Saunders -- Tragedy and romance in Chaucer's 'litel bok' of Troilus and Criseyde / Norman Klassen -- The genre of The Canterbury tales / Genre in the Canterbury Tales / Judith Ferster -- Richard Firth Green (to come) -- Sexuality, marriage and the family / Neil Cartlidge -- Christianity and the church / John Hirsh -- Reading Chaucer aloud - David Fuller.

Sommario/riassunto

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.:.; Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers.; Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer's major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales .; Essays



highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work.; Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; g

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484660603321

Titolo

Advances in Information Retrieval : 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30 -- April 3, 2008 / / edited by Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, Ryan W. White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-78646-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 722 p.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 4956

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Data mining

Database management

Information storage and retrieval systems

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Multimedia systems

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Database Management

Information Storage and Retrieval

Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Multimedia Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Presentations -- Evaluation -- Web IR -- Social Media -- Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval -- Theory I -- Video -- Representation I -- Wikipedia and E-Books -- Expert Search -- Representation II --



Theory II -- Short Papers -- Posters -- Workshop Summaries -- Tutorials.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.