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The Classification of Fiction. The Development of a System Based on Theoretical Principles.
Clare Beghtol
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Description for The Classification of Fiction. The Development of a System Based on Theoretical Principles.
Hardback. "Abounds in inspiring ideas and proposals. A helpful bibliography completes Beghtol's noteworthy and recommendable study.." -KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: GLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 222 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Fiction documents are among those most often requested from libraries and other informational agencies, yet subject heading lists and classification systems have not routinely provided for the subject analysis of works of fiction. This book's major purpose is to develop an experimental classification system for the content of fiction documents. The thoretical background and principles of the experimental system are treated in depth, including explicit techniques for handling anomalous, fuzzy and/or ambiguous data in fiction. The system draws on research from cognitive science, linguistics, and literary studies for insights into fiction analysis, and the experimental system contains four fiction-specific data ... Read more
Fiction documents are among those most often requested from libraries and other informational agencies, yet subject heading lists and classification systems have not routinely provided for the subject analysis of works of fiction. This book's major purpose is to develop an experimental classification system for the content of fiction documents. The thoretical background and principles of the experimental system are treated in depth, including explicit techniques for handling anomalous, fuzzy and/or ambiguous data in fiction. The system draws on research from cognitive science, linguistics, and literary studies for insights into fiction analysis, and the experimental system contains four fiction-specific data ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810828285
SKU
V9780810828285
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99-15
About Clare Beghtol
Clare Beghtol (Ph.D., M.L.S., University of Toronto; B.A., University of Chicago) is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, at the University of Toronto, Canada, and specializes in access systems, both verbal and classificatory. She has been Chief Cataloguer and Indexer for the Canadian Broadcast System nightly news program The Journal, Director of Research, Ketchum Canada, Inc., and has ... Read more
Reviews for The Classification of Fiction. The Development of a System Based on Theoretical Principles.
...theoretically interesting study offers fascinating insights into fiction-specific classifactory problems...abounds in inspiring ideas and proposals. A helpful bibliography completes Beghtol's noteworthy and recommendable study...
Werner Bies, Knowledge Organization
It is a valuable contribution to the research in this field, as well as being a viable solution of the desire of readers and librarians for enhanced retrieval of the ... Read more
Werner Bies, Knowledge Organization
It is a valuable contribution to the research in this field, as well as being a viable solution of the desire of readers and librarians for enhanced retrieval of the ... Read more