‘Stunt-Reading’

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-96
Author(s):  
Alex Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Paul Muldoon ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Ulterior Motives

Chapter 2 offers the first full-scale treatment of Paul Muldoon as critic. It looks at his major works of literary criticism, from the F. W. Bateson Lecture ‘Getting Round’ and To Ireland, I to the later End of the Poem, and considers what these lecture series from his American years can tell us about Muldoon the reader, as well as the poet. Muldoon announces himself on the critical scene not only as a self-proclaimed ‘stunt reader’ but an extraordinarily Freudian thinker, who is unusually attentive to the kinds of veiled communication and word-association that might reveal a writer’s ulterior motives, resistances, or unconscious desires. But his offbeat, often knowingly mischievous performances in these lectures also suggest a basic distrust of the authority of the critical reader, and in turn raise questions about the kinds of reading his own poems are expected to elicit.

Paul Muldoon in America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Alonso
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Paul Muldoon ◽  
Formal Schemes ◽  
Song Writing

Paul Muldoon was looking west long before he left Ireland for the United States in 1987, and his transatlantic departure would prove to be a turning point in his life and work. In America, where he now lives as a US citizen, Muldoon’s creative repertoire has extended into song writing, libretti, and literary criticism, while his poetry collections have themselves extended to outlandish proportions, typified in recent years by a level of formal intensity that is unique in modern poetry. To leave Northern Ireland, though, is not necessarily to leave it behind. Muldoon has spoken of his ‘sense of belonging to several places at once’, and in the United States his work has found another creative gear, new modes of performance facilitated by his Irish émigré status. This book approaches the protean work of his American period, focusing on Muldoon’s expansive structural imagination, his investment in Eros and errors, the nimbleness of his allusive practice as both a reader and writer, and the mobility of his transatlantic position. It draws on archival research to produce provocative new readings of Muldoon’s later works. Exploring the poetic and literary-critical ‘long forms’ that are now his hallmark, this book places the most significant works of Muldoon’s American period under the microscope, and opens up the intricate formal schemes of a poet Mick Imlah credits as having ‘reinvented the possibilities of rhyme for our time’.

A new translation of a Chinese poet: Li Ho

1971 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 560-570
Author(s):  
A. C. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Present Collection ◽  
Complete Translation

Li Ho (791–817), one of the most original of Chinese poets, and a key influence in the development of late T'ang poetry, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. It is therefore a pleasure to welcome the appearance of a full-scale study by such a well-equipped scholar as Dr. J. D. Frodsham. His qualifications for the task are quite exceptional; already well known for his work on pre-T'ang poets, he uses the Japanese as well as the Chinese authorities, loves poetry for its own sake, and is familiar with Western literature and literary criticism. It is refreshing to read a book on a Chinese poet which instead of repeating the traditional judgements approaches his work from an independent and modern angle and with post-Empsonian critical tools. Substantial selections from Li Ho's poems have appeared in English before (a fact which Frodsham nowhere mentions), in Robert Payne's White pony, the Poems of solitude of Jerome Ch'en and Michael Bullock, and my own Poems of the late T'ang. But the present collection covers, with detailed annotation, all the 243 poems attributed to Li Ho, in versions which convey the floridity and satirical liveliness of the lighter pieces more effectively than the sombre power of the major poems. Since the Chinese text is notoriously difficult reading, even specialists in T'ang poetry will find their way about in the collected poems more comfortably with Frodsham's assistance. It is symptomatic of the special fascination of Li Ho for Western readers that a poet unrepresented in the ‘300 T'ang poems’ should be one of the first to be honoured by complete translation into English.

Word Association of Time-Altered Auditory and Sual Stimuli in Aphasia

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Goldfarb ◽  
Harvey Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Word Association

Relation of Statistically Significant, Abnormal, and Typical WAIS-R VIQ-PIQ Discrepancies to Full Scale IQs

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis M. Hsu ◽  
Judy Hayman ◽  
Judith Koch ◽  
Debbie Mandell
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
True Score ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Normative Population ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Quadratic Models

Summary: In the United States' normative population for the WAIS-R, differences (Ds) between persons' verbal and performance IQs (VIQs and PIQs) tend to increase with an increase in full scale IQs (FSIQs). This suggests that norm-referenced interpretations of Ds should take FSIQs into account. Two new graphs are presented to facilitate this type of interpretation. One of these graphs estimates the mean of absolute values of D (called typical D) at each FSIQ level of the US normative population. The other graph estimates the absolute value of D that is exceeded only 5% of the time (called abnormal D) at each FSIQ level of this population. A graph for the identification of conventional “statistically significant Ds” (also called “reliable Ds”) is also presented. A reliable D is defined in the context of classical true score theory as an absolute D that is unlikely (p < .05) to be exceeded by a person whose true VIQ and PIQ are equal. As conventionally defined reliable Ds do not depend on the FSIQ. The graphs of typical and abnormal Ds are based on quadratic models of the relation of sizes of Ds to FSIQs. These models are generalizations of models described in Hsu (1996) . The new graphical method of identifying Abnormal Ds is compared to the conventional Payne-Jones method of identifying these Ds. Implications of the three juxtaposed graphs for the interpretation of VIQ-PIQ differences are discussed.

A Modification of the Payne-Jones Method of Identifying Abnormal Differences in WISC-R Performance and Verbal IQ's

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis M. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Full Scale ◽  
True Score ◽  
Verbal Iq ◽  
Score Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance

The difference (D) between a person's Verbal IQ (VIQ) and Performance IQ (PIQ) has for some time been considered clinically meaningful ( Kaufman, 1976 , 1979 ; Matarazzo, 1990 , 1991 ; Matarazzo & Herman, 1985 ; Sattler, 1982 ; Wechsler, 1984 ). Particularly useful is information about the degree to which a difference (D) between scores is “abnormal” (i.e., deviant in a standardization group) as opposed to simply “reliable” (i.e., indicative of a true score difference) ( Mittenberg, Thompson, & Schwartz, 1991 ; Silverstein, 1981 ; Payne & Jones, 1957 ). Payne and Jones (1957) proposed a formula to identify “abnormal” differences, which has been used extensively in the literature, and which has generally yielded good approximations to empirically determined “abnormal” differences ( Silverstein, 1985 ; Matarazzo & Herman, 1985 ). However applications of this formula have not taken into account the dependence (demonstrated by Kaufman, 1976 , 1979 , and Matarazzo & Herman, 1985 ) of Ds on Full Scale IQs (FSIQs). This has led to overestimation of “abnormality” of Ds of high FSIQ children, and underestimation of “abnormality” of Ds of low FSIQ children. This article presents a formula for identification of abnormal WISC-R Ds, which overcomes these problems, by explicitly taking into account the dependence of Ds on FSIQs.

Review of The G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series, Vol. 1.

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 575-575
Author(s):  
George Mandler
Keyword(s):  
Lecture Series
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