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Queering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2008
Jeremy W. Webster
This article explores the continuing prevalence of historicism and queer theory in seventeenth-century literature. While some scholars have announced the demise of new historicism and queer theory and others have challenged these critical perspectives' methodologies and assumptions, scholarship on the history of sexuality published within the past ten years demonstrates the continuing importance of historicist and queer theories on seventeenth-century literary criticism. Queer historicists, also called alteritists, constructivists, or differentialists, argue that the seventeenth century's constructions of same-sex sexual practices, desires, and emotions are fundamentally different from those of the present day. Challenges to this position maintain that early modern representations of same-sex eroticism share some continuity with those of today. Through an examination of scholarship on female same-sex erotics, passionate male friendship, constructions of ,sodomy' as a legal and social category, the exiling of homoeroticism from the center of government to the margins of society, and depictions of same-sex desire in the theater during the seventeenth century, this piece concludes that queer historicism remains a dominant voice in early modern studies. [source]

Der Erzähler als ,Popmoderner Flaneur' in Christian Krachts Roman Faserland

GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2002
Anke S. Biendarra
Faserland (1995) exemplifies a new phenomenon in contemporary German literature. It cleared the way for a younger generation of writers and their description of the formerly marginalised experiences of everyday life, whose narratives focus is on the communication between narrator and reader. Hitherto, discussion of this novel has largely concentrated on its connection with ,pop literature', whilst its literary qualities and conceivable links with (post)modern literature have been ignored. Walter Benjamin's typology of the flâneur is used to illuminate the novel's aesthetic strengths, its narrative voice and textual structure. In taking into account historical developments, the interpretation characterizes the narrator as a ,popmodern flâneur', whose gaze no longer falls upon the metropolis but upon a frayed microcosm of German society. It suggests that the narrative report is a fictitious and imagined journey, which reveals itself as the narrator's failed attempt to ascertain a concept of subjectivity. In a world that presents itself as a Vanity Fair, the narrator's language, which retreats to the empty style of a world of commodities, fails. The poetic project of mastering experiences through narrative is equally unsuccessful. [source]

Construction of Exact Simultaneous Confidence Bands for a Simple Linear Regression Model

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2008
Wei Liu
Summary A simultaneous confidence band provides a variety of inferences on the unknown components of a regression model. There are several recent papers using confidence bands for various inferential purposes; see for example, Sun et al. (1999), Spurrier (1999), Al-Saidy et al. (2003), Liu et al. (2004), Bhargava & Spurrier (2004), Piegorsch et al. (2005) and Liu et al. (2007). Construction of simultaneous confidence bands for a simple linear regression model has a rich history, going back to the work of Working & Hotelling (1929). The purpose of this article is to consolidate the disparate modern literature on simultaneous confidence bands in linear regression, and to provide expressions for the construction of exact 1 ,, level simultaneous confidence bands for a simple linear regression model of either one-sided or two-sided form. We center attention on the three most recognized shapes: hyperbolic, two-segment, and three-segment (which is also referred to as a trapezoidal shape and includes a constant-width band as a special case). Some of these expressions have already appeared in the statistics literature, and some are newly derived in this article. The derivations typically involve a standard bivariate t random vector and its polar coordinate transformation. Résumé Un intervalle de confiance simultanée fournit une variété d'inférences sur les composantes inconnues d'un modéle de régression. Plusieurs articles récents utilisent des intervalles de confiance dans des buts variés; voir par exemple Sun, Raz et Faraway (1999), Spurrier (1999), Al-Saidy et al. (2003), Liu, Jamshidian et Zhang (2004), Bhargava et Spurrier (2004), Piegorsch et al. (2005), Liu et al. (2007). La construction d'intervalles de confiance simultanés pour un simple modéle de régression linéaire a une histoire riche, qui remonte aux travaux de Working et hotelling (1929). L'objet de cet article est de consolider la littérature moderne disparate sur les intervalles de confiance simultanés dans la régression linéaire, de fournir des expressions pour la construction d'intervalles de confiance simultanés de niveau exact 1 ,, pour un modéle de régression linéaire simple ou pour des formes unilatérales ou bilatérales. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les trois formes les plus reconnues: hyperbolique, à deux segments et à trois segments (qui est aussi appelée forme trapézoïdale et inclut un intervalle de largeur constante comme cas spécial). Certaines de ces expressions sont déjà apparues dans la littérature statistique, d'autres sont nouvellement introduites dans cet article. Les dérivations comprennent typiquement un vecteur aléatoire standard bivarié t et sa transformation en coordonnées polaires. [source]

Knowledge management in the professional organization: a model with application to CMG software testing

KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 2 2003
Cesanne Kerkhof
Knowledge and the management of knowledge are recognized as becoming more important to modern organizations. Unfortunately, modern literature is not clear on the ways to implement knowledge management in practice. This article presents a model for this purpose, dedicated to professional organizations. Present theories about knowledge, learning organizations and knowledge transfer form the basis of the model. The model is applied to CMG Software Testing. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

On the representation of evil in modern literature

NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 983 2003
Brian Horne
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Iacopo della Quercia scultore Sanese: late Medieval or early Renaissance artist?

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 2 2007
Helen Geddes
The work of the Siena-born sculptor Jacopo della Quercia (b. c. 1370,75 , d. 1438) has often proved difficult to reconcile with early fifteenth-century artistic trends, and he has often been marginalised in mainstream assessments of early Italian sculpture. Quercia has commonly been perceived as anomalous, neither belonging wholly to the Trecento, nor conforming unequivocally to the characterization of a ,Renaissance' artist, despite being a contemporary of Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Masaccio. This is a view compounded by his never having found patronage in Florence. The paper examines the changing critical reception of Quercia's sculptures, from the later fifteenth century, to Giorgio Vasari in the sixteenth, through to the modern literature, thus charting the changing perception of his art. An analysis of the extent to which his sculptural works conform to the preoccupations of Renaissance art, in his treatment of the human body, of perspective, the study of the antique, and in the study of nature, is presented. The paper argues that it is the somewhat artificial and limiting definitions imposed by art historical periods, and an emphasis on artists working in Florence, that have obscured and hindered direct appreciation and understanding of Quercia's great achievements. [source]

Chirality and chemical processes: A few afterthoughts

CHIRALITY, Issue 1 2008
Pedro Cintas
Abstract Chirality and chiral have become terms that pervade a wide range of disciplines in physical and life sciences. Although such terms are precisely defined, their use often engenders confusion and ambiguity. Perhaps, the most improper use of chirality, yet widely accepted, is related to its association with stereodynamics and physico-chemical transformations, such as chiral discrimination, chiral resolution, chiral recognition, chiral synthesis, and so on. Even though this conceptual perversion has been highlighted by renowned stereochemists, it has become a recurring keyword and a hot message in modern literature. It is timely to renew the correct use and context in forums such as the present journal, adding further reflections that may help both beginners and practitioners. This short article is not intended to criticize or highlight errors, but rather to encourage a level of rigor and the use of statements, which should be universally correct. Chirality, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]