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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790082703321

Autore

Storm William <1949->

Titolo

Irony and the modern theatre / / William Storm [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-06406-1

1-107-22183-8

1-283-11285-X

9786613112859

1-139-07654-X

1-139-08336-8

1-139-08109-8

1-139-07882-8

0-511-97483-3

1-139-07082-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

Classificazione

DRA000000

Disciplina

809.2/918

Soggetti

Irony in literature

Drama - History and criticism

Drama - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Irony personified: Ibsen and The Master Builder -- 2. The character of irony in Chekhov -- 3. Irony and dialectic: Shaw's Candida -- 4. Pirandello's 'father' -- and Brecht's 'mother' -- 5. Absurdist irony: Ionesco's 'anti-play' -- 6. 'Ironist first-class': Stoppard's Arcadia -- 7. American ironies: Wasserstein and Kushner -- 8. Irony's theatre.

Sommario/riassunto

Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, Storm



advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910896179403321

Titolo

Advanced Techniques in Optimization for Machine Learning and Imaging / / edited by Alessandro Benfenati, Federica Porta, Tatiana Alessandra Bubba, Marco Viola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

981-9767-69-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Collana

Springer INdAM Series, , 2281-5198 ; ; 61

Disciplina

006.6

Soggetti

Machine learning

Mathematical optimization

Mathematical analysis

Machine Learning

Optimization

Analysis

Aprenentatge automàtic

Optimització matemàtica

Teories no lineals

Processament digital d'imatges

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

1.STEMPO dynamic Xray tomography phantom -- 2.On a fixed point continuation method for a convex optimization problem -- 3.Majoration Minimization for Sparse SVMs -- 4.Bilevel learning of regularization models and their discretization for image deblurring and super resolution -- 5.Non Log Concave and Nonsmooth Sampling via Langevin Monte Carlo Algorithms -- 6.On the inexact proximal Gauss-Newton methods for regularized nonlinear least squares problems.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, non-linear optimization has had a crucial role in the development of modern techniques at the interface of machine learning and imaging. The present book is a collection of recent contributions in the field of optimization, either revisiting consolidated ideas to provide formal theoretical guarantees or providing comparative numerical studies for challenging inverse problems in imaging. The work of these papers originated in the INdAM Workshop “Advanced Techniques in Optimization for Machine learning and Imaging” held in Roma, Italy, on June 20-24, 2022. The covered topics include non-smooth optimisation techniques for model-driven variational regularization, fixed-point continuation algorithms and their theoretical analysis for selection strategies of the regularization parameter for linear inverse problems in imaging, different perspectives on Support Vector Machines trained via Majorization-Minimization methods, generalization of Bayesian statistical frameworks to imaging problems, and creation of benchmark datasets for testing new methods and algorithms.