Lovers of poetry would disdain a poet who reused stanzas from one their previously published poems in new one. Movie lovers be stunned if favourite filmmaker the car chase scene previous thriller its sequel. But most us have no qualms about university committee chair or head government research lab copying and pasting some paragraphs last year's annual report into this as long that particular c...

A few years ago, William Logan wrote, “Poetry has long been a major art with minor audience.”1 We could more accurately call it many audiences grouped, like the poets, around region, identity, ideology, and artistic affiliations—a fragmentation that makes generalizations difficult. It is not easy to place in larger context three books I am reviewing here—Tyler Chadwick's Litany Wings, Scott Hal...

Repeated testing of posthypnotic amnesia indicates that some Ss, initially responsive to the suggestion, show appreciable recovery of memory before the pre-arranged signal is given to cancel the amnesia. Comparison of Ss who received 2 successive memory tests during amnesia with others who received only a single test preceded by a distracting activity indicated that the recovery effect was attr...

NOT LONG AFTER his arrival in Chile from Nicaragua 1886, Rubén Darío published an article the newspaper El mercurio, which he lamented present state of arts. Speaking Chilean poets particular, complains: “Casi todos permanecen silenciosos; casi han olvidado el amable comercio de las Gracias. Quién con la cartera del diplomático no cura si Fama le ha encumbrado a categoría primer poeta filosófic...

Tyra Kleen (1874–1951), a fin de siècle Swedish artist, illustrated Poe’s “The Raven.” The image, titled Nevermore, includes series of handwritten excerpts from the poem, her signature, and some withered red roses that cross main image frame. (The included here is in Kleen’s private artist archive at Valinge gård, visited November 30, 2017.) burning candle framed as well depicted person’s visib...

An Ecopath-Ecosim ecosystem model under development for coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico simulates responses of 63 biomass pools to changes in fisheries and primary productivity. Ten key species are represented by detailed, multistanza population-dynamics models (31 of the biomass pools) that attempt to account explicitly for possible changes in recruitment rates due to changes in by-catch r...

It is two years since my diagnosis and I am still no closer to finding a reason why have become so ill; an idiopathic medical anomaly. My of chronic pancreatitis occurred in the middle first coronavirus lockdown United Kingdom. was solitary experience as shuffled into distanced hospital waiting rooms, fed various machines that instructed me on when how breathe sent back flat await phone call ap...

For more than two millennia, theoretical reflections on aesthetic perception and the creation of aesthetically appealing objects have been an important domain humanist scholarship.Empirical aesthetics complements this tradition by adopting scientific methodology providing evidence-based, reproducible answers to both longstanding recently arisen questions.While empirical has largely remained mar...

THENUMBER OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS in the humanities is growing fast and many libraries are seeking to acquire them from various sources or to provide access to them. Building, in part, on the experience of those scholars who work with electronic texts in literary and linguistic computing, this article surveys some issues which libraries may need to consider as they begin to establish collectiondeve...

A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, force; neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, trees!1 ‘A steal, /I fears.’ Given Wordsworth’s celebrated lyric is suspended its entirety above this essay, there decent chance you, reader, will have noticed ...