Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and ...Vergil.
A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12, along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian’s Animula vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy’s text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus’s spolia opima, and on Vergil’s Aeneid 3. 147–152 and 11. 151–153. On Ennius, the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220–22l, and in editing Horace, he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing a conservative and a radical approach.
Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature.
Flat-World Fiction analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about the United States in ...the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In this period, authors such as Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Thomas Pynchon, Kristen Roupenian, Gary Shteyngart, and Zadie Smith found themselves not only implicated in the developing digital world of flat screens but also threatened by it, while simultaneously attempting to critique it. As a result, their texts explore how human relationships with digital devices and media transform human identity and human relationships with one another, history, divinity, capitalism, and nationality.Liliana M. Naydan walks us through these complex relationships, revealing how authors show through their fiction that technology is political. In the process, these authors complement and expand on work by historians, philosophers, and social scientists, creating accessible, literary road maps to our digital future.
The book examines the interplay of ancient and new decor elements on Insula IX 5 in Pompeii during the final phase of the city between AD 62-79 . This is the first time that an attempt has been made ...to grasp the construction and equipment phases of the houses. However, the décor is not only classified chronologically, but analyzed both in terms of the décor decisions made for it and the effect of the décor.
We clarify the higher-dimensional origin of a class of dyonic gaugings of D=4 N=8 supergravity recently discovered, when the gauge group is chosen to be ISO(7). This dyonically gauged maximal ...supergravity arises from consistent truncation of massive IIA supergravity on S^6, and its magnetic coupling constant descends directly from the Romans mass. The critical points of the supergravity uplift to new four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS4) massive type IIA vacua. We identify the corresponding three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT3) duals as super-Chern-Simons-matter theories with simple gauge group SU(N) and level k given by the Romans mass. In particular, we find a critical point that uplifts to the first explicit N=2 AdS4 massive IIA background. We compute its free energy and that of the candidate dual Chern-Simons theory by localization to a solvable matrix model, and find perfect agreement. This provides the first AdS4/CFT3 precision match in massive type IIA string theory.
Fictions, we are so often told, are everywhere in America today.
The extravagant claims of advertising are everywhere, much of the
day's news concerns "pseudo-events" like rallies or ceremonies
...staged so that they can be reported on, and philosophers doubt even
the possibility of any knowledge being objective. Thus we seem less
and less able to distinguish between the real and the invented. In
Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of
Contemporary American Fiction, Daniel Punday examines the
"postmodern" expansion of fictionality-the feeling today that the
line between the real and the invented is harder to draw-and argues
that this feeling reflects a struggle by different cultural groups
to define how we tell and use "literary" stories. He discusses the
literary texts of John Barth, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed;
paraliterary forms like science fiction and electronic writing; and
resolutely nonliterary texts, especially role-playing games, in
terms of how each responds to the institution of literature through
its definition of fictionality. For too long, postmodernism has
been described by easy generalizations-relativist, indeterminate,
commercialized-that have rendered the term nearly worthless. Punday
applies a more nuanced understanding of fictionality to a variety
of contemporary narrative forms that occupy different locations
within postmodern literary culture. Approaching postmodernism as a
configuration of institutions that legitimize fictionality, he
illuminates the nature of creative writing and the conflicts
between different literary groups in America today.
Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their ...response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many of these texts wrestle with Canada's colonial past and with the voices and histories that were repressed in the push for national consolidation but emerge now as uncanny reminders of that contentious history. The haunting effect can be unsettling and enabling at the same time. In recent years, many Canadian authors have turned to the gothic to challenge dominant literary, political, and social narratives. In Canadian literature, the "postcolonial gothic" has been put to multiple uses, above all to figure experiences of ambivalence that have emerged from a colonial context and persisted into the present. As these essays demonstrate, formulations of a Canadian postcolonial gothic differ radically from one another, depending on the social and cultural positioning of who is positing it. Given the preponderance, in colonial discourse, of accounts that demonize otherness, it is not surprising that many minority writers have avoided gothic metaphors. In recent years, however, minority authors have shown an interest in the gothic, signalling an emerging critical discourse. This "spectral turn" sees minority writers reversing long-standing characterizations of their identity as "monstrous" or invisible in order to show their connections to and disconnection from stories of the nation.
The 2018 season saw a continuation of research on Roman housing and urbanism in Alexandria. Excavations were focused in the central area of the Kom el-Dikka site, where some early to mid-Roman ...structures (2nd–3rd centuries AD) were explored. The uncovered part of the building seems to combine domestic and commercial functions. A couple of shops opening onto the street were identified. Evidence of artisanal production of glass beads was also recognised in the post-occupation phase. Post-processing of the finds (pottery, glass vessels, painted wall plaster and coins) was continued. The paper also brings an overview of the preservation program, which was limited this season to maintenance conservation of structures seriously threatened by unfavourable climatic conditions (mainly Baths and auditoria).
A double Roman dominating function of a graph G is a labeling f: V(G) → {0, 1, 2, 3} such that if f(v)=0, then the vertex v must have at least two neighbors labeled 2 under f or one neighbor with ...f(w)=3, and if f(v)=1, then v must have at least one neighbor with f(w) ≥ 2. The double Roman domination number γdR(G) of G is the minimum value of Σv ∈ V(G)f(v) over such functions. In this paper, we firstly give some bounds of the double Roman domination numbers of graphs with given minimum degree and graphs of diameter 2, and further we get that the double Roman domination numbers of almost all graphs are at most n. Then we obtain sharp upper and lower bounds for γdR(G)+γdR(G¯). Moreover, a linear time algorithm for the double Roman domination number of a cograph is given and a characterization of the double Roman cographs is provided. Those results partially answer two open problems posed by Beeler et al. (2016).
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