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Recent Developments in Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Sets: Dedicated to Lotfi A. Zadeh (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing #391)
by Janusz Kacprzyk Shahnaz N. Shahbazova Michio SugenoThis book provides a timely and comprehensive overview of current theories and methods in fuzzy logic, as well as relevant applications in a variety of fields of science and technology. Dedicated to Lotfi A. Zadeh on his one year death anniversary, the book goes beyond a pure commemorative text. Yet, it offers a fresh perspective on a number of relevant topics, such as computing with words, theory of perceptions, possibility theory, and decision-making in a fuzzy environment. Written by Zadeh’s closest colleagues and friends, the different chapters are intended both as a timely reference guide and a source of inspiration for scientists, developers and researchers who have been dealing with fuzzy sets or would like to learn more about their potential for their future research.
Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language
by Francois Grosjean Harlan L. LanePublished in 1989, Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.
Reception: Lucan And Vergil As Theorists Of Politics And Space (The New Critical Idiom #4)
by Ika WillisReception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a much-needed overview of the field, drawing on work in literary and cultural studies as well as Classics, Biblical studies, medievalism, and the media history of the book. It provides new ways of understanding and configuring the relationships between the various terminologies and theories that comprise reception study, and suggests potential ways forward for study and research in the light of such new configurations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is the ideal introduction to the study of reception.
The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800: Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
by Sabine HerrmannThis book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice was an important hub for the accumulation and dissemination of direct information on the Near East and the Levant. Therefore, ancient Egypt played a significant role in the cultural memory of Venice due to the lagoon city’s religious and mercantile orientation towards the East. The book explores how the acquisition, selection, and interpretation of Egyptian objects took shape in Venice, and which actors were involved in the circulation of knowledge about ancient Egypt. Venice can be used as a lens through which to understand the reception of ancient Egypt in the early modern period. Meaningful and partly unpublished sources from primarily Italian archives highlight the visual imagination of ancient Egypt and its lexicographical codification. The author draws upon these sources to examine the Venetian image of ancient Egypt in the early modern period and the epistemic change that accompanied it.
Reception of Mesopotamia on Film
by Maria de Fatima RosaExplore an insightful account of the reception of Mesopotamia in modern cinema In Reception of Mesopotamia on Film, Dr. Maria de Fátima Rosa explores how the Ancient Mesopotamian civilization was portrayed by the movie industry, especially in America and Italy, and how it was used to convey analogies between ancient and contemporary cultural and moral contexts. Spanning a period that stretches from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, the book explores how the Assyrian and Babylonian elites, particularly kings, queens, and priestesses, were perceived and represented on screen by filmmakers. A focus on the role played by Ancient Near Eastern women and on the polytheistic religion practiced in the land between the rivers will be provided. This book also offers an insightful interpretation of the bias message that most of these films portray and how the Mesopotamian past and Antiquity brought to light and stimulated the debate on emerging 20th century political and social issues. The book also offers: A thorough introduction to the Old Testament paradigm and the romanticism of classical authors A comprehensive exploration of the literary reception of the Mesopotamian legacy and its staging Practical discussions of the rediscovery, appropriation, and visual reproduction of Assyria and Babylonia In-depth examinations of cinematic genres and cinematographic contexts Perfect for students of the history of antiquity and cinematographic history, Reception of Mesopotamia on Film is also an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in reception studies.
The Reception of Northrop Frye
by Robert DenhamThe widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, "Who now reads Frye?" In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has progressed at a geomantic rate. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is "a very large and growing number," the growth being not incremental but exponential.
Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (New Accents)
by Robert C. HolubFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic
by Alberto Ferreiro Ephraim NissanThis book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to the late medieval Catalan painter Lluís Borrassà and the Italian librettist and musician Arrigo Boito. The tradition of Simon Magus’ demonic flight, ending in his crashing down, first appears in the patristic literature. The book situates that flight typologically across cultures. Fascinating observations emerge, as the discussion spans flight of the wicked in rabbinic texts, flight and death of King Lear’s father and a Soviet-era Buryat Buddhist monk, flight and doom of the fool in an early modern German broadsheet, and more. The book explains and moves beyond extant scholarly wisdom on how the polemic against Mani (the founder of Manichaeism) was tinged with hues of Simon Magus. The novelty of this book is that it shows that Simon Magus’ receptions teach us a great deal about the contexts in which this archetype was deployed.
Receptive Bodies
by Leo BersaniLeo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body’s capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.
Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)
by Márton DornbachPremised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and spontaneous activity in the transmission of human-made models of mindedness. Their innovations have defined the very terms in which we think about the historical character of aesthetic experience, the development of philosophical thinking, the dynamics of textual communication, and the task of literary criticism.Combining a reconstructive approach to this key juncture of modern thought with close attention paid to subsequent developments, Marton Dornbach argues that we must continue to think within the framework established by the Idealists if we are to keep our bearings in the contemporary intellectual landscape.
Recesses of the Mind
by Birna BjarnadóttirRecesses of the Mind explores Guðbergur Bergsson's aesthetics of life and literature. Bergsson - like so many writers whose language is not widely spoken or read - is scarcely known outside his homeland, but the psychological depth of his vision reveals the minds of his characters in ways that are reminiscent of novelists such as Hamsun, Faulkner, and Garcia Márquez. Birna Bjarnadóttir constructs a deep and comprehensive argument for Bergsson's significance as a master of narrative. Crossing centuries, oceans, and continents, her contextualization of Bergsson's aesthetics stretches from his native land's literary tradition to the cultural domains of Europe and North and South America. Her investigation of his ideas on beauty, love, and belief, presented as a dialogue between Bergsson and numerous other writers and philosophers - Plotinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Blanchot - is a striking reflection on some of the most important questions of modern times. Recesses of the Mind introduces a profound writer to the international stage. The book's exploration of the cultural periphery is equally significant, suggesting new interpretative strategies for considering cultural contributions from isolated places.
Recesses of the Mind: Aesthetics in the Work of Guðbergur Bergsson
by Birna BjarnadóttirBirna Bjarnadóttir constructs a deep and comprehensive argument for Bergsson's significance as a master of narrative. Crossing centuries, oceans, and continents, her contextualization of Bergsson's aesthetics stretches from his native land's literary tradition to the cultural domains of Europe and North and South America. Her investigation of his ideas on beauty, love, and belief, presented as a dialogue between Bergsson and numerous other writers and philosophers - Plotinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Blanchot - is a striking reflection on some of the most important questions of modern times. Recesses of the Mind introduces a profound writer to the international stage. The book's exploration of the cultural periphery is equally significant, suggesting new interpretative strategies for considering cultural contributions from isolated places.
Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections (Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies #1)
by Annalisa Oboe Anna ScacchiThis book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.
Recht richtig formulieren: Ein Handbuch mit Beispielen aus der journalistischen Praxis (Journalistische Praxis)
by Frank BräutigamJede Journalistin, jeder Journalist berichtet früher oder später über rechtliche Themen. Zum Beispiel über den Mordprozess am Landgericht vor Ort, das neuste Ermittlungsverfahren gegen einen Lokalpolitiker oder das umstrittene Verbot einer Demonstration. Dieses Buch beschreibt typische Situationen aus dem journalistischen Alltag. Es hilft dabei, Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten zu vermeiden. Geht der Angeklagte jetzt in "Berufung" oder "Revision"? Wurde der Verdächtige "festgenommen" oder "verhaftet"? Es benennt die typischen Fallstricke beim Thema "Recht", erklärt kurz die relevanten Begriffe und macht konkrete Vorschläge, wie man Recht richtig formuliert. Auch Autorinnen und Autoren von Krimi-Drehbüchern bekommen zahlreiche Hinweise, mit denen sie typische Fehler vermeiden können.
Rechte Gewalt erzählen: Doing Memory in Literatur, Theater und Film (LiLi: Studien zu Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik #1)
by Matthias N. Lorenz Fabian Virchow Tanja ThomasRechte Gewalt, die in der Bundesrepublik Anfang der 1990er Jahre Konjunktur hatte und in den letzten Jahren abermals stark angestiegen ist, ist bis heute nur äußerst lückenhaft aufgearbeitet und wird künstlerisch kaum erinnert. Wenn überhaupt, herrschen Täterperspektiven im Rahmen eines rein ‚weißen‘ Erinnerungsrahmens vor, die Stimmen der Opfer bleiben ungehört. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass mit der gesellschaftlichen Missachtung dieser Gewalt eine zweite Traumatisierung stattfindet, fragt der Band nach Formen, Leistungen und Defiziten der dokumentarischen wie fiktionalen Aufarbeitung rechter Gewalt in Literatur, Theater und Film. Die erzählenden Künste werden in den untersuchten Beispielen sowohl auf ihren Beitrag zu dem beobachteten Missstand als auch hinsichtlich ihres Potentials zu dessen Überwindung untersucht.Mit Beiträgen von Svea Bräunert, Anna Brod, Gabriele Fischer, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Matthias N. Lorenz, Jonas Meurer, Dan Thy Nguyen, Corinna Schlicht, Sebastian Schweer, Tanja Thomas, Fabian Virchow, Johanna Vollmeyer und Stefan Winterstein.
Rechtshandbuch Social Media
by Gerrit Hornung Ralf Müller-TerpitzSeit der Entwicklung des Internets zum Web 2.0 sind Social Media aus unserem privaten und beruflichen Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Dienste wie Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp, berufliche Netzwerke oder Plattformen für Bewertungen und Blogs haben erhebliche praktische Bedeutung erlangt und werfen zahlreiche, oft ungeklärte oder im Fluss befindliche Rechtsfragen auf. Seit dem Erscheinen der 1. Auflage dieses Handbuchs im Jahre 2015 hat sich zudem der Gesetzgeber dem Phänomen Social Media verstärkt angenommen. Die nunmehr aktualisierte und erweiterte 2. Auflage geht mit wissenschaftlichem Anspruch bei gleichzeitiger Praxisorientierung systematisch auf Rechtsfragen ein, die mit der Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke zusammenhängen. In Gestalt der klassischen Rechtsgebiete des Schuldrechts, Strafrechts, Arbeitsrechts und des Persönlichkeitsschutzes, der neueren Rechtsbereiche des Datenschutzes und E-Governments bis hin zum spezifischen Medien- und Internetrecht sowie unter Einschluss der Kommunikationswissenschaften wird das Phänomen Social Media ganzheitlich erfasst. Abgerundet werden diese Betrachtungen nunmehr durch Beiträge zu den ökonomischen Grundlagen sowie zum wettbewerbsrechtlichen Rahmen der sozialen Medien.
Rechtsnorm und ästhetische Reflexion: Studien zum Verhältnis zwischen den Hermeneutiken des Rechts und der Literatur (Literatur und Recht #13)
by Gideon StieningDer Band versammelt Studien zur juristischen und zur literarischen Hermeneutik sowie zu deren Verhältnis. Auf der Grundlage philosophischer und theologischer Konzepte zum Verstehen und zur Interpretation von Texten werden die Besonderheiten der Auslegung von Recht und Literatur erörtert. Die spezielle Herausforderung besteht in der Korrelation der spezifisch juristischen und spezifisch literarischen Kunst der Auslegung. Berücksichtigt werden zudem der historische Wandel dieser Bereichshermeneutiken und deren Verhältnis zueinander.
The Recipe Reader: Narratives - Contexts - Traditions (At Table Ser.)
by Janet Floyd Laurel ForsterOver the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts - from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration - is a complex, distinct and important form of cultural expression. In this volume, contributors address questions raised by the recipe, its context, its cultural moment and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as: nineteenth and twentieth-century private publications, official government documents, campaigning literature, magazines, and fictions as well as cookery writers themselves, cookbooks and TV cookery. In subjecting the recipe to close critical analysis, The Recipe Reader serves to move the study of this cultural form forward. It will interest scholars of literature, popular culture, social history and women's studies as well as food historians and professional food writers. Written in an accessible style, this collection of essays expands the range of writers under consideration, and brings new perspectives, contexts and arguments into the existing field of debate about cookery writing.
Recipes for Thought
by Wendy WallFor a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.Recipes reveal much more than the history of puddings and pies: they expose the unexpectedly therapeutic, literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy Wall explores ways that recipe writing--like poetry and artisanal culture--wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific" cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover, invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling, and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital creative and intellectual labors.
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror
by Olivia Luna EldritchImmerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the recipes, along with extraordinary illustrations and extracts from the original tales. This book offers something for everyone: featuring easy to prepare vegan, vegetarian and seafood dishes, that are delicious enough to wake the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu from his slumber with ingredients readily found on our world.So go ahead, journey through Arkham all the way to R'lyeh while you prepare a banquet fit for the Ancient Ones with recipes that capture the piquancy of Lovecraft's most vivid tales.
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror
by Olivia Luna EldritchImmerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the recipes, along with extraordinary illustrations and extracts from the original tales. This book offers something for everyone: featuring easy to prepare vegan, vegetarian and seafood dishes, that are delicious enough to wake the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu from his slumber with ingredients readily found on our world.So go ahead, journey through Arkham all the way to R'lyeh while you prepare a banquet fit for the Ancient Ones with recipes that capture the piquancy of Lovecraft's most vivid tales.
Reciprocal Constructions in Meitei and Nyishi
by Atanu SahaThis book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Burman languages respectively spoken in the states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in India. The first question relates to developing a model for the syntax and semantics of these verbal reciprocal languages. Secondly, the book attempts to provide an account of the surface variations between the languages using this model. The book also tries to build an account for the co-occurrences of the nominal and verbal reciprocals in languages like Meiteilon and Nyishi. Both languages use a verbal strategy for default reciprocalization and both the languages show discontinuous reciprocity. The author argues that if the reciprocal marker consists of one suffix (as in the case of Meiteilon), it may express several other functions, but if the reciprocal marker composes of more than one suffix (as in Nyishi), it does not show polysemy. Both languages can reciprocalize unaccusative and unergative verbs, and in both the languages, overt distributive nominal reciprocal markers show strong reciprocity. This book will be of interest to syntacticians and typologists working in the domain of universal grammar, as well as computational linguists seeking empirical data on endangered and underrepresented languages.
Reciprocity in English: Historical Development and Synchronic Structure (Routledge Studies In Germanic Linguistics #15)
by Florian HaasAlthough the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or ‘mutual’) situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention in recent years, so far no comprehensive study specifically dealing with the historical development and synchronic structure of English reciprocal constructions has been published. This book takes into consideration insights from the three major research projects on reciprocity in the languages of the world as well as the rich literature on more specific aspects of reciprocity. Assuming a usage-based model of grammar, the development of the reciprocal strategies used in present-day English is described, with special attention paid to the periods following Middle English, where today’s system began to take shape. The means of expressing reciprocity in today’s English (e.g. the expressions each other and one another) are then analyzed as a system of competing constructions, the make-up and distribution of which can be related both to their history and subtle distinctions in meaning and use associated with the different constructions. Quantitative data from corpora of natural language provides evidence for the analyses put forward. Wherever possible, claims on the expression of reciprocity in present-day English are checked against what is known about the grammar of reciprocity in other languages.
Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom
by Downs, Jim; Dunbar, Erica Armstrong; Hunter, T. K.; McCarthy, Timothy PatrickReckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought for freedom throughout American history, as well as the ways in which the ideal of freedom remains unrealized today. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays offer insight into how historians practice their craft in different ways and illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.
Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
by Charles AltieriMuch current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein's later work that stresses Wittgenstein's parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism. Altieri begins by offering a phenomenology of imagination, because we cannot fully honor art if we do not link it to a distinctive, socially productive force. That force emerges in two quite different but equally powerful realizations in his reading of John Ashbery's "Instruction Manual," which explicitly establishes a model for a postromantic view of imagination, and William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan." He then turns to Wittgenstein with chapters on the role of display as critique of Enlightenment thinking, the honoring of qualities like sensitivity and the ability to attune to the actions of others, the role of expression in the building of models, and the contrast between ethical and confessional modes of judgment. Finally, Altieri produces his own model of aesthetic experience as participatory valuation and makes an extended argument for the social significance of appreciation as a way to escape the patterns of resentment fundamental to our current mode of politics. A masterful work by one of our foremost literary and philosophical theorists, Reckoning with the Imagination will breathe new life into ongoing debates over the value of aesthetic experience.