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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777029603321

Autore

Sabin Margery <1940->

Titolo

The dialect of the tribe [[electronic resource] ] : speech and community in modern fiction / / Margery Sabin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

1-280-60522-7

0-19-536477-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

823.91209

823/.912/09

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Speech in literature

Comparative literature - English and French

Comparative literature - French and English

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

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Life of English Idiom, the Laws of French Cliché; 2 The Community of Intelligence and the Avant-Garde; 3 Competition of Intelligence in The Golden Bowl; 4 Constructing Character: Speech and Will in Women in Love; 5 Near and Far Things in Lawrence's Writing of the Twenties; 6 Postures and Impostures of English in Ulysses; 7 Signs of Life and Death in Beckett's Trilogy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novels as The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, Ulysses, and the Beckett trilogy which illustrate how complex attitudes toward the speech forms of language inform the most varied social, psychological, and aesthetic structures in modern fiction. Sabin explores the powerful tension in these writers between appreciation



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910872644703321

Autore

Burgess Neil

Titolo

15th Symposium on Computer Arithmatic, 2001, Vail, CO

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Disciplina

004.0151

Soggetti

Computer arithmetic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Proceedings 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic. ARITH-15 2001 -- Leading zero anticipation and detection-a comparison of methods -- Bounds on runs of zeros and ones for algebraic functions -- Binary multiplication radix-32 and radix-256 -- Analysis of column compression multipliers -- Faithful powering computation using table look-up and a fused accumulation tree -- Bit-parallel systolic modular multipliers for a class of GF(2/sup m/) -- Modular multiplication and base extensions in residue number systems -- Efficient computation of multiplicative inverses for cryptographic applications -- Optimised squaring of long integers using precomputed partial products.

Sommario/riassunto

The proceedings from the June 2001 conference in Vail, Colorado, feature 30 papers on binary strings, multiplication and exponentiation, cryptography, division and square root, elementary functions and rounding, number systems, floating high points, addition, logarithmic number systems, and on-line arithmetic. An abstract of the keynote speech offers a processor architect's perspective on computer arithmetic. And a reprint of Knowles's "A Family of Adders," which was mis-printed in the proceedings from the previous conference, is included. Contributors represent 11 countries. Name index only. c. Book News Inc.