Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric

A 2016-2017 William Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Ryan Matthew Hintzman (Silliman College \u2717) for his essay submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature, Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric.” (Edward Kamens, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, advisor.) Ryan Hintzman’s essay, Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric is a work of awe-inspiring erudition, vision, and ambition. Ranging far and wide among traditional and more recent theories of the lyric and moving boldly from 8th century poems in Japanese to 19th and 20th century poems in English, Hintzman articulates a distinctive notion of lyric (concerned with the poem’s self-knowing of its past and future, and its materiality or “thingness”) that is largely derived from readings of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (i.e. de Man\u27s work), but in a way that opens up new possibilities for reading premodern works and actually clarifies or extends the critical problems posed by Romantic/modernist texts. This is a profound accomplishment. This essay is as much about where its author has been as it is about where he—and literary studies at large—might go from here. Hintzman is both respectful of and dissatisfied with his forebears, as any possessor of a fertile critical mind should be. He will certainly go forward to pursue more readings and re-readings that will further complicate his conception of “how the poem works,” what it makes, what it does, and particularly with respect to the uta, the Japanese poem. I know of no more intelligent and compelling readings of the poems from the Man’yōshū than those presented by Hintzman in this essay (by a long shot). If his readings of Crane, Keats, Shelley, and Yeats stand as tall and strong as do his treatments of these very old and much worked-over Japanese poems, he will have shown a truly remarkable capacity that few scholars of any generation have been able to manage

Versification : Metrics in Practice

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose. The aesthetic appeal of poetry is often linked to the potential for this process to seem mysterious or almost magical, not to mention the interplay of particular expressions with forms and expectations. The dynamics of versification thus draw a general interest for everyone, from enthusiasts of poetry or forms of verbal art to researchers of folklore, ethnomusicology, linguistics, literature, philology, and more. The authors of the works in the present volume explore versification from a variety of angles and in diverse cultural milieus. The focus is on metrics in practice, meaning that the authors concentrate not so much on the analysis of the metrical systems per se as on the ways that metres are used and varied in performance by individual poets and in relationship to language.Peer reviewe

Versification

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose. The aesthetic appeal of poetry is often linked to the potential for this process to seem mysterious or almost magical, not to mention the interplay of particular expressions with forms and expectations. The dynamics of versification thus draw a general interest for everyone, from enthusiasts of poetry or forms of verbal art to researchers of folklore, ethnomusicology, linguistics, literature, philology, and more. The authors of the works in the present volume explore versification from a variety of angles and in diverse cultural milieus. The focus is on metrics in practice, meaning that the authors concentrate not so much on the analysis of the metrical systems per se as on the ways that metres are used and varied in performance by individual poets and in relationship to language

Successful change strategies for a major research and consulting company

This case study describes a major change initiative undertaken by a major consulting-contracting agency, 3 Tier Research and Development, Inc., engaged in market branding, research, and development in the United States. Focusing on one client account, Go-Green Auto Corp, the study scrutinizes relevant organizational theories as they apply to real-time organizational leadership and change-management strategy scenarios. Members of the studied organization from one office in Southern California, predisposed by their own mind-sets and training in the organization\u27s mission statement and policies and procedures of operation, voluntarily participated in field research that included questionnaires and interviews by the researcher. The goal of this study, which applies organizational change theory to practice, was defined and applied by specific trend analysis; process mapping in megabusiness processes known in the business world as Accounts Receivable (A/R) and Order Service Group with Customer Services/Customer Subscriptions; Service Level Agreements (SLA) between the 3 Tier contracting-consultant agency and its client account; the ISO 9000 series of standards and management strategies initially customized to the auto industry and commonly used by private companies; and finally, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance tools for change-agent, risk, and governance deliverables for publicly traded companies. The key inquiry is this: What are the successful change strategies employed by a contracting-consulting company engaged in market branding, research, and development in response to a request from its key account? With the recent collapse of GM and Chrysler and their subsequent bail out by the federal government, this topic is timely in its historic relevance and provides a useful real-time model extending from the auto industry to a more general economic recovery with concomitant reduction in the unemployment rate in the United States. Third-party outsourcing is pivotal in this global economy. This research also encompasses the Internet technology (IT) side of the change-management process, services measures, and user environment that necessarily include any of those services for infrastructure disaster recovery, backup, and network infrastructure change-agent provisions

Versification

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose. The aesthetic appeal of poetry is often linked to the potential for this process to seem mysterious or almost magical, not to mention the interplay of particular expressions with forms and expectations. The dynamics of versification thus draw a general interest for everyone, from enthusiasts of poetry or forms of verbal art to researchers of folklore, ethnomusicology, linguistics, literature, philology, and more. The authors of the works in the present volume explore versification from a variety of angles and in diverse cultural milieus. The focus is on metrics in practice, meaning that the authors concentrate not so much on the analysis of the metrical systems per se as on the ways that metres are used and varied in performance by individual poets and in relationship to language

A qualitative inquiry into the construction of modern foreign language teachers’ beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge

This thesis explores the construction of modern foreign language teacher cognition: beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge. It examines how teachers’ beliefs about grammar and the role of target language in language teaching have been constructed. The research design is set within a constructivist-interpretivist framework. The conceptual framework identifies four major areas of influence on teacher cognition: pre-training language learning experiences, pre-service training experiences, in-service experiences and micro/macro policy. The qualitative research methodology is autobiographical / life history. The data is presented in the form of narratives, which chronicle the construction and evolution of beliefs and subject knowledge. Data were collected through the methods of audio-recorded semi-structured interviews and field observation over a period of three years. The research involved the participation of seven language-teaching professionals from seven different LA maintained schools. The autobiography and life histories suggest that early learning experiences may be influential in the construction of teacher cognition about MFL methodology. Furthermore, beliefs constructed in these formative years may also be highly resistant to change. University based teacher education is a positive source of influence in providing teachers with models and techniques which are adopted in practice. The research examines the impact of twenty years of national (macro) policy on modern foreign language teacher cognition and practice. It considers how reflection and dialogue with other practitioners contribute to the construction of pedagogical content knowledge and the interpretation of national policy. Findings report that context is the conditioning factor in the choice of approach taken for the teaching of grammar and the perceived role of the target language. Emerging from the data, is the concept of a methodologising of teaching by school leaders through the implementation of micro policy. The thesis recommends an exploration of how existing beliefs about language teaching have been constructed among those beginning teacher education programmes and makes suggestions for future research

Design and optimisation of scientific programs in a categorical language

This thesis presents an investigation into the use of advanced computer languages for scientific computing, an examination of performance issues that arise from using such languages for such a task, and a step toward achieving portable performance from compilers by attacking these problems in a way that compensates for the complexity of and differences between modern computer architectures. The language employed is Aldor, a functional language from computer algebra, and the scientific computing area is a subset of the family of iterative linear equation solvers applied to sparse systems. The linear equation solvers that are considered have much common structure, and this is factored out and represented explicitly in the lan-guage as a framework, by means of categories and domains. The flexibility introduced by decomposing the algorithms and the objects they act on into separate modules has a strong performance impact due to its negative effect on temporal locality. This necessi-tates breaking the barriers between modules to perform cross-component optimisation. In this instance the task reduces to one of collective loop fusion and array contrac

Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition

In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in petitioning practices as growing literacy rates open up potential access to the contemporary models of written request-making. Still the nature of Late Modern literacies complicates the attempts at written composition and participation in literacy cultures. In addition, spatial and social mobility that characterise European communities in the period not only generate more demand for active literacy, but also entail new factors, expectations and constraints on written communication. Thus the ways in which the Late Modern literacies may be elucidated and accessed through the study of petitions remain at the core of this investigation. The book embarks upon a (socio)pragmatic study of two sets of institutional correspondence surviving in connection to the British government colonisation scheme of the Cape of Good Hope, the 1820 settlement. The data, referred to as the candidate (1819) and colonial collections (1820-25), offer a unique opportunity to observe genre development over a relatively short span of time, to identify the specific aspects of genre change and to connect these to the discourse and language external context. The study focuses on the structural models of petition and issues of authorship, as well as variability of punctuation and aspects of spelling and morpho-syntax in the letters. The analysis makes use of specific digital methodologies, such as the n-gram analysis, as well as purely qualitative methods

Improving the Method of Teaching English as a Second Language in Iranian- Schools

Curriculum and Instructio