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A property tester for tree-likeness of quartet topologies
[[abstract]]Property testing is a rapid growing field in theoretical computer science. It considers the following task: given a function f over a domain D, a property ℘ and a parameter 00, and present the first property tester for tree-likeness of quartet topologies. Our property tester makes at most O(n 3/ε) queries, and is of one-sided error and non-adaptive.[[notice]]補正完
'A place in the mind': the anatomy of space in the works of Maeve Brennan
This thesis anatomises the elements of space in the works of Irish-American author Maeve
Brennan, using four key spatial paradigms. It considers the effects of space – physical and
conceptual – within Brennan’s body of literature, from the non-fiction ‘Long-Winded Lady’
epistles that she produced for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town,” to the forty-odd works of
short fiction that appeared over two decades in the same illustrious magazine, beginning in the
early 1950s. Neglected in her later life, Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most
important of women’s voices in twentieth-century Irish fiction, having undergone a significant
reclamation and reappraisal in the thirty years since her death. As a transnational Irish woman
writer with regular access to an audience that numbered in the millions, Brennan’s work was
uniquely liminal. Single and childfree, she eschewed the securities of family and home,
experiencing an ‘otherness’ that she shared with her fellow New Yorkers, many of them left
hanging on, she wrote, to a city half-capsized; “most of them still able to laugh as they cling to
the island that is their life’s predicament”.
Appraising the four spatial elements – Urban Space, Diaspora Space, Manic Space, and
Feminine Space – this thesis traces Brennan’s experience of the city as a single woman at a
time of degenerative urban renewal; of mental illness, as a casualty of the psychosocial
dispossession suffered by the doubly-subjugated Irishwoman; and of the very notions of home
and identity, which, for Brennan, could never be fashioned by absolutes.
Notwithstanding the recent renewal of scholarly interest, this dissertation seeks to begin to
address an obvious lacuna in the critical study of Brennan’s oeuvre. It does so by assessing
what Henri LeFebvre saw as modernity’s “devastated” spaces of “emptiness,” which in the
tapestry of Brennan’s writing, are carefully, consciously, explored. In a 1974 letter to friend
and confidante Howard Moss, Brennan wrote: “One thing is certain, it is all a dream.” It is a
suitably ambiguous expression for a writer who cultivated an interstitial existence, whose
stories inhere within an oneiric cycle of reiterative pasts, and whose works, I argue, naturally
become the in-between space of radical Irish fiction
Central Washington University 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog
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