Considering Liminality as a Passage to the Otherworld in the Early Irish Tale Aislinge Óenguso and Oscar Wilde’s The Fisherman and his Soul

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Eszter György
Keyword(s):  
Irish Literature ◽  
Religious Transformation ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Universal Expression

An important piece of early Irish literary material, Óengus’ dream bears several similarities with Oscar Wilde’s The Fisherman and his Soul. It will be demonstrated that liminality (from limen meaning “threshold” in Latin), as epitomized by the presence of water in both tales, can be interpreted as a passage to the Otherworld. It is the liminal and otherworldly aspect of water that brings into existence the universal human aspiration towards the supernatural unification with the cosmos and the theme of all-encompassing love; recurrent topoi in Irish literature from the very beginnings until today. Furthermore, Wilde’s tale is not so much about the “devotional revolution” of religious transformation in a post-Famine Ireland, but an even more universal expression of a “revolutionary devotion”: the Fisherman’s unusual attachment to the forbidden. This supernatural yet human feeling of transition, “in-betweenness” or metaxy makes both tales operate in several dimensions across time and geographical space.

The Children of Adam and Eve in Medieval Irish Literature

ÉRIU ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (-1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Glaeske
Keyword(s):  
Irish Literature ◽  
Adam And Eve

Are We Doing Diversity Justice? A Critical Exchange

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi ◽  
Emma Penney
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Race Analysis

This critical exchange is based on a conversation between the authors which took place during the Irish University Review Roundtable Discussion: Displacing the Canon (2019 IASIL Conference, Trinity College Dublin). As authors we give first-hand accounts of our experience writing, editing, and teaching in Ireland, attempting to draw out concerns we have for the future of Irish literature and Irish Studies that specifically relate to race. The conversation here suggests that race directly impacts what we consider valuable in our literary culture. We both insist on decentring universalism as a governing literary critical concept and insist on the urgent application of critical race analysis to the construction of literary value systems in Ireland.

Q-optimal experimental designs and close to them experimental designs for polynomial regression on the interval

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Yu. D. Grigoriev
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Polynomial Regression ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Optimal Designs ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
General Character ◽  
Support Points ◽  
Optimal Weights ◽  
Universal Expression

The problem of constructing Q-optimal experimental designs for polynomial regression on the interval [–1, 1] is considered. It is shown that well-known Malyutov – Fedorov designs using D-optimal designs (so-called Legendre spectrum) are other than Q-optimal designs. This statement is a direct consequence of Shabados remark which disproved the Erdős hypothesis that the spectrum (support points) of saturated D-optimal designs for polynomial regression on a segment appeared to be support points of saturated Q-optimal designs. We present a saturated exact Q-optimal design for polynomial regression with s = 3 which proves the Shabados notion and then extend this statement to approximate designs. It is shown that when s = 3, 4 the Malyutov – Fedorov theorem on approximate Q-optimal design is also incorrect, though it still stands for s = 1, 2. The Malyutov – Fedorov designs with Legendre spectrum are considered from the standpoint of their proximity to Q-optimal designs. Case studies revealed that they are close enough for small degrees s of polynomial regression. A universal expression for Q-optimal distribution of the weights pi for support points xi for an arbitrary spectrum is derived. The expression is used to tabulate the distribution of weights for Malyutov – Fedorov designs at s = 3, ..., 6. The general character of the obtained expression is noted for Q-optimal weights with A-optimal weight distribution (Pukelsheim distribution) for the same problem statement. In conclusion a brief recommendation on the numerical construction of Q-optimal designs is given. It is noted that in this case in addition to conventional numerical methods some software systems of symbolic computations using methods of resultants and elimination theory can be successfully applied. The examples of Q-optimal designs considered in the paper are constructed using precisely these methods.

Aus der Welt gefallen. Eine geographische Phantasie

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Struck
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
White Spots ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Geographical Space

Während im 19. Jahrhundert die ›weißen Flecken‹ von den Landkarten verschwinden, erscheint eine eigentümliche Figur in der geographischen Imagination, die Figur eines Forschers, der verschollen ist. Das Verschwinden jedoch findet unter Beobachtung statt, es wird in Erzählungen und Karten organisiert, es schreibt sich in Protokolle ein, die das Verschwinden wahrnehmbar machen und zugleich die Wahrnehmung eines homogenen geographischen Raums und die Bedingungen seiner Repräsentation formieren. </br></br>While, during the 19th century, the ›white spots‹ disappear from the maps, a peculiar figure appears in the geographical imagination: the figure of a researcher who has been lost. However, the disappearance takes place under observation, it is organized in narratives and maps, it is inscribed in protocols that make the disappearance perceptible and simultaneously form the perception of a homogeneous geographical space and the conditions of its representation.

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