1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788652603321

Titolo

Algebraic geometry, Hirzebruch 70 : proceedings of the Algebraic Geometry Conference in honor of F. Hirzebruch's 70th birthday, May 11-16, 1998, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center Warszawa, Poland / / Piotr Pragacz, Michal Szurek, Jarosław Wiśniewski, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

0-8218-7831-X

0-8218-5577-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 241

Disciplina

516.3/5

Soggetti

Geometry, Algebraic

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.

Nota di contenuto

""The Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten invariants""""Degenerations of (1,3) abelian surfaces and Kummer surfaces""; ""On the extension problem of pluricanonical forms""; ""Enumerating singular curves on surfaces""; ""On the structure of moduli spaces of framed vector bundles on rational and ruled surfaces""; ""A note on k-jet ampleness on surfaces""; ""About the ""y"" in the Xy-characteristic of Hirzebruch""; ""The splitting field of Mordell-Weil lattices""; ""Hirzebruch surfaces: degenerations, related braid monodromy, Galois covers""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958268603321

Autore

Douglas Mary <1921-2007.>

Titolo

Thinking in circles : an essay on ring composition / / Mary Douglas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

9786611734794

9781281734792

1281734799

9780300134957

0300134959

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Terry lecture series

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

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

Ancient rings worldwide -- Modes and genres -- How to construct and recognize a ring -- Alternating bands : numbers -- The central place : numbers -- Modern, not-quite rings -- Tristram Shandy : testing for ring shape -- Two central places, two rings : the Iliad -- Alternating nights and days : the Iliad -- The ending : how to complete a ring -- The latch : Jakobson's conundrum.

Sommario/riassunto

Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world.Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for



a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.