Literary onomastic theory – An introduction

ENGL 308 Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory

ENGL 302 Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Instr. R. Elliott. 10:00 MWF. After an opening glance at the Anglo-Irish comic tradition, this course will focus on plays written during and since the Irish Renaissance that flowered about 1900. We will discuss works by the major Abbey Theatre playwrights – W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Sean O’Casey – and link their writing...

Special Issue Introduction “Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis”

As we witness the rise of intemperate nationalism, self-indulgent nativism, and aggressive xenophobia in many countries, multiand intercultural studies and initiatives have come under considerable pressure. At least for now, it seems that they have not been able to offer satisfactory alternatives for populations that suffer under the ill effects of globalization or believe so. Theories of trans...

Copula Theory: an Introduction

In this survey we review the most important properties of copulas, several families of copulas that have appeared in the literature, and which have been applied in various fields, and several methods of constructing multivariate copulas. This version: September 14, 2009 1 Historical introduction The history of copulas may be said to begin with Fréchet [69]. He studied the following problem, whi...

Introduction: The Fantastic as a Literary Genre

Domain Theory: An Introduction

ion Let τ = λx.σ. By the induction hypothesis, σ defines a function of its free variables. Let those free variables be of types D0, . . . ,Dn where Dn is the type of x. Then σ defines an approximable function g : D0 × . . .×Dn → D′ where D′ is the type of σ. Using Theorem 3.12, the function curry(g) : D0 × . . .×Dn−1 → (Dn → D′) yields an approximable function, but this is just the function def...