Longfellow, Tennyson, and Transatlantic Celebrity

Alfred , Lord Tennyson

Possible Lines of Approach • Representative status of IM for the Victorian era, poet laureateship • IM and the culture of mourning, public and private, mourning process, melancholia • Form and structure of IM, composition over 17 years, issue of unity vs. division • Poetics: tetrameter, abba rhyme scheme, repetition, use of apostrophe • Comparison with other elegies (e.g. Milton’s “Lycidas,” Sh...

Measuring Celebrity

Celebrity is not fame, but it too can be measured. A version of this paper, somewhat mangled by the editor, appears in Annals of Improbable Research 12, 1 (Jan/Feb 2006), 14–15. Fame is being known. Celebrity is being known by your first name. Monica Lewinsky became famous when people learned of her presidential activities. She became a celebrity when people called her Monica. Schulman [1, 2, 3...

Celebrity Recommender

This paper presents both a rationale and a pilot study for using celebrities to present computer generated content recommendations. The rationale explores how people's parasocial relationships with celebrities influence decision-making. The pilot study examines if celebrity presentation of recommendations influences subjects' qualitative assessment of a recommender. Statistical tests on a small...

Pinterest Celebrity

The current study analyzed celebrity lifestyle brands’ Pinterest pages in order to determine how they framed their brands to users. Pinterest features a strong female user base, and users employ the site to collect items that they aspire to purchase, or aspire to be like. Results indicate that celebrities use their lifestyle brands to promote their celebrity status, give advice on home décor an...

Polymetrical Dissonance: Tennyson, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Classical Meter