Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Masterplots II.: Mar-Sev
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Masterplots II
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A digest of plots and critiques of 318 twentieth century nonfiction works "in the areas of autobiography, memoirs, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and other subjects for the non-specialist reader"--Publisher's catalog.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A digest of plots and critiques of 318 twentieth century nonfiction works "in the areas of autobiography, memoirs, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and other subjects for the non-specialist reader"--Publisher's catalog.
Masterplots II: Sev-V
Author: Christian Hollis Moe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Contains over 70 new plays never before covered in a Masterplots series, from previously missed classics to contemporary award winners. Each article lists principal characters, describes the play, and analyzes themes and meanings, dramatic devices, and critical content.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Contains over 70 new plays never before covered in a Masterplots series, from previously missed classics to contemporary award winners. Each article lists principal characters, describes the play, and analyzes themes and meanings, dramatic devices, and critical content.
Masterplots II.
Author: Charles Edward May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 1,200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 1,200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253350046
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253350046
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Animal Spirits
Author: George A. Akerlof
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government—simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life—such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes—and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits—the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time—unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government—simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life—such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes—and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits—the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time—unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action.
Masterplots
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Masterplots: The four series in eight volumes; two thousand and ten plot stories and essay reviews from the world's fine literature
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Masterplots; Combined Edition
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Critical biographies of classical to contemporary writers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Critical biographies of classical to contemporary writers.