Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. Hickman focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, ...including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the historical present. He demonstrates that Ashbery's generosity as a writer is closely tied to his generosity, inattention and situatedness as a reader.
This book, inspired by the thought of Giacomo Becattini, reflects on why local communities continue to exist and spread. Why does the planet not become one place without borders? Why instead do we ...humans preferentially group ourselves into communities that are neither 'too wide' nor 'too narrow'? What characterizes today's form of community? Why are these communities rooted in places? What is peculiarly 'local' about places? Together with Becattini, we answer that the foundation of local communities is social culture. In its material and symbolic dimensions, social culture animates various forms of proximity between people and between groups: in addition to territorial proximity, social proximity (also online) and institutional proximity matter a lot. This implies that today a local community is not only a place where social culture makes us physically close, but where at least some of the major forms of proximity intersect.
This study develops a new approach that shrinks the forecast combination weights towards equal weights by using weighted least squares and towards zero weight by using regularization constraints. We ...reveal the significant predictability of excess returns to the S&P500 index that can be achieved by using this double shrinkage combination (DSC). Furthermore, our DSC approach significantly outperforms the naïve equal‐weighted combination, solving the combination puzzle. The equal‐weight shrinkage has greater effect in economic recessions, whereas the zero‐weight shrinkage dominates in economic expansions. The DSC's superior performance over that of the naïve combination is observed in the application of forecasting macroeconomic indicators.
Herbert Leroy Needleman Watts, Geoff
The Lancet (British edition),
09/2017, Letnik:
390, Številka:
10098
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The event that fired Herbert Needleman's interest in the toxic effects of lead occurred on a ward of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he was Chief Resident. ” “Lead poisoning then was ...perceived as an acute disease”, says Philip Landrigan, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics in the Arnhold Institute for Global Health of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
Herbert Barrie was among the first wave of paediatricians in the UK to seek a new responsibility for the youngest of their patients. “The newborn baby was very neglected when I started medicine in ...the early 1950s”, explains Peter Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Medicine and Child Health at the University of Bristol.
When a poet addresses a living person - whether friend or enemy, lover or sister - we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible ...listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy - George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual vertical address to God in favor of a horizontal one - addressing God as a friend.Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death.Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange - an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free.
In memoriam Professor Jan van der Schoot (1927–2017) Busemann Sokole, Ellinor; Valdés Olmos, Renato
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
06/2017, Letnik:
44, Številka:
6
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Jan van der Schoot, who will be remembered as one of the fathers of nuclear medicine in the Netherlands, has died. A profile is presented.