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UNINA9910315232403321 |
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Autore |
Dane Joseph A |
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Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History / Joseph A. Dane |
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Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2018 |
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Santa Barbara, CA : , : Punctum Books, , 2018 |
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[1st edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Mythodologies challenges the implied methodology in contemporary studies in the humanities. We claim, at times, that we gather facts or what we will call evidence, and from that form hypotheses and conclusions. Of course, we recognize that the sum total of evidence for any argument is beyond comprehension; therefore, we construct, and we claim, preliminary hypotheses, perhaps to organize the chaos of evidence, or perhaps simply to find it; we might then see (we claim) whether that evidence challenges our tentative hypotheses. Ideally, we could work this way. Yet the history of scholarship and our own practices suggest we do nothing of the kind. Rather, we work the way we teach our composition students to write: choose or construct a thesis, then invent the evidence to support it. This book has three parts, examining such methods and pseudo-methods of invention in medieval studies, bibliography, and editing. Part One, “Noster Chaucer,” looks at examples in Chaucer studies, such as the notion that Chaucer wrote iambic pentameter, and the definition of a canon in Chaucer. “Our” Chaucer has, it seems, little to do with Chaucer himself, and in constructing this entity, Chaucerians are engaged largely in self-validation of their own tradition. Part Two, “Bibliography and Book |
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History,” consists of three studies in the field of bibliography: the recent rise in studies of annotations; the implications of presumably neutral terminology in editing, a case-study in cataloguing. Part Three, “Cacophonies: A Bibliographical Rondo,” is a series of brief studies extending these critiques to other areas in the humanities. It seems not to matter what we talk about: meter, book history, the sex life of bonobos. In all of these discussions, we see the persistence of error, the intractability of uncritical assumptions, and the dominance of authority over evidence. |
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UNINA9910146313303321 |
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Autore |
McCutcheon Randall <1965-> |
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Elemental Methods in Ergodic Ramsey Theory / / by Randall McCutcheon |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999 |
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[1st ed. 1999.] |
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1 online resource (VI, 166 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 1617-9692 ; ; 1722 |
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Discrete mathematics |
Global analysis (Mathematics) |
Manifolds (Mathematics) |
Functions of real variables |
Discrete Mathematics |
Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds |
Real Functions |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ramsey theory and topological dynamics -- Infinitary Ramsey theory -- Density Ramsey theory -- Three ergodic roth theorems -- Two Szemerédi theorems. |
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This book, suitable for graduate students and professional mathematicians alike, didactically introduces methodologies due to Furstenberg and others for attacking problems in chromatic and density Ramsey theory via recurrence in topological dynamics and ergodic theory, respectively. Many standard results are proved, including the classical theorems of van der Waerden, Hindman, and Szemerédi. More importantly, the presentation strives to reflect the extent to which the field has been streamlined since breaking onto the scene around twenty years ago. Potential readers who were previously intrigued by the subject matter but found it daunting may want to give a second look. |
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