Forms of loss: epitaph, dirge, and ashes in late modernist poetry

"Forms of Loss" investigates the ways in which the late modernist poems of H.D., W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot move away from the personal, consolatory, and pastoral language of the English elegy while expressing mourning, absence, and loss. By looking at poetic form through twentieth-century cultural institutions of mourning, I try to reconstruct the methods through which modernist poets aestheticized the destruction of war or resisted the depresonalizing conditions of modernity. I begin with H.D.'s Trilogy, which I argue uses the form of the Greek elegiac couplet as a way of juxtaposing ancient ruins with the bombsites of London during the Blitz, effectively rendering the future ruins of Western civilization in Sapphic epitaphs that convey a modernist, unsentimental, and redemptive loss. In my second chapter, I claim that Auden uses the genre of the Biblical dirge in order to re-invent "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" as a modernist elegy that is public, ceremonious, and serves as a "mouth" for a modern world that is on the precipice of the Second World War. In my final chapter, I end with the suggestion that Eliot draws upon the scientific, religious, and Dantescan rhetorics of cremation in order to generate an elegiac "poetics of ash," a form that collapses the poet's memory and experience into a fiery vortex and immortalizes his disembodied and impersonal poetic mind."Forms of Loss" explore les méthodes utilisées par les poèmes modernistes tardifs de H.D., W.H. Auden et T.S. Eliot permettant de s'éloigner du langage personnel, consolateur ou pastoral de l'élégie anglaise, et ce, tout en exprimant le deuil, l'absence et la perte. En examinant la forme poétique au travers des institutions funéraires du XXe siècle, je tente de reconstruire les méthodes par lesquelles les poètes modernistes ont esthétisé la destruction de la guerre ou ont résisté aux conditions de la modernité. Je commence par l'œuvre Trilogy de H.D., qui utilise la forme du couplet élégiaque grecque afin de juxtaposer des ruines antiques avec les bombardements de Londres pendant le Blitz, devenant ainsi les futures ruines de la civilisation occidentale dans des épitaphes saphiques qui traduisent une perte modernisme, non sentimentale et rédemptrice. Dans mon deuxième chapitre, je prétends qu'Auden utilise le genre du chant funèbre biblique pour réinventer "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" en tant qu'élégie moderniste, laquelle est publique, cérémonieuse, et finalement triste pour le monde moderne qui est sur le précipice de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dans mon dernier chapitre, je termine en suggérant qu'Eliot s'est inspiré des rhétoriques scientifiques, religieuses et dantescaniennes de la crémation pour générer une "poésie de la cendre" élégiaque, une forme qui détruit la mémoire et l'expérience du poète dans un vortex enflammé et immortalise son esprit poétique désincarné

Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members

All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. For version 1.2 adds 162 addresses, 126 VIAF numbers, and decreases the total number of members from 5,601 to 5,235 by matching previously unmatched accounts. See ScoData_members_v1.2_changelog.txt for more information.The Shakespeare and Company Project: Lending Library Members dataset includes information about approximately 5,200 members of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company lending library.The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.SCoData_members_v1.2_2022-01_README.txt SCoData_members_v1.2_2022-01.csv SCoData_members_v1.2_2022-01.json ScoData_members_v1.2_changelog.txt SCoData_members_v1.2_removed.csv SCoData_members_v1.2_2022-01_datapackage.jso

Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Books

All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. Version 1.2 adds seven books and 230 ebook_url entries, and inaccurate publication dates have been corrected. See also ScoData_books_v1.2_changelog.txt.This dataset includes information about approximately 6,000 books and other items with bibliographic data as well as summary information about when the item circulated in the Shakespeare and Company lending library and the number of times an item was borrowed or purchased.The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.SCoData_books_v1.2_2022-01_README.txt SCoData_books_v1.2_2022-01.csv SCoData_books_v1.2_2022-01.json SCoData_books_v1.2_2022-01_datapackage.json SCoData_books_v1.2_removed.csv ScoData_books_v1.2_changelog.tx

Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members, Books, Events

All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. For version 1.2 of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, we made a series of significant additions and refinements. For the members dataset, we added 162 addresses and 126 VIAF numbers; we also decreased the total number of members from 5,601 to 5,235 by matching previously unmatched accounts. For the books dataset, we added two books and 1,957 eBook links. We also reduced the books labeled “uncertain” from 568 to 475. For the events dataset, we added 492 events, including 60 reimbursements from a new logbook source and 300 reimbursements from the address books. We also renamed an event type and subscription category, added three new subscription categories, and fully footnoted all events. In all three datasets, we corrected mistakes and added missing dates. For more specific information, see change logs included with the individual datasets.The Shakespeare and Company Project makes three datasets available to download in CSV and JSON formats. The datasets provide information about lending library members; the books that circulated in the lending library; and lending library events, including borrows, purchases, memberships, and renewals. The datasets may be used individually or in combination site URLs are consistent identifiers across all three.The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.SCoData_combined_v1.2_2022-01_README.txt. SCoData_combined_v1.2_2022-01_datapackage.jso

Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Events

All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. Version 1.2 adds 492 events, corrects errors, supplies missing dates and footnotes, and revises two fields. The event type “Separate Deposit” has been renamed “Separate Payment.” The subscription category “Professor” has been renamed “Professor / Teacher,” and three new subscription categories have been added: “Day by Day,” “Free,” and “Reading Room.” See ScoData_events_v1.2_changelog.txt for more information.The Shakespeare and Company Project: Lending Library Events dataset includes information about approximately 35,000 lending library events including membership activities such as subscriptions, renewals and reimbursements and book-related activities such as borrowing and purchasing. For events related to lending library cards that are available as digital surrogates, IIIF links are provided.The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.SCoData_events_v1.2_2022-01_README.txt SCoData_events_v1.2_2022-01.csv SCoData_events_v1.2_2022-01.json ScoData_events_v1.2_changelog.txt SCoData_events_v1.2_2022-01_datapackage.jso

Tevatron Combination of Single-Top-Quark Cross Sections and Determination of the Magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element Vtb\bf V_{tb}

We present the final combination of CDF and D0 measurements of cross sections for single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data correspond to total integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb$^{−1}$ per experiment. The t-channel cross section is measured to be σ$_t$=2.25$_{-0.31}^{+0.29}$ pb. We also present the combinations of the two-dimensional measurements of the s- vs t-channel cross section. In addition, we give the combination of the s+t channel cross section measurement resulting in σ$_{s+t}$=3.30$_{-0.40}^{+0.52}$ pb, without assuming the standard model value for the ratio σ$_s$/σ$_t$. The resulting value of the magnitude of the top-to-bottom quark coupling is |V$_{tb}$|=1.02$_{-0.05}^{+0.06}$, corresponding to |V$_{tb}$|>0.92 at the 95% C.L

Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

International audienceThe CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have measured the asymmetry between yields of forward- and backward-produced top and antitop quarks based on their rapidity difference and the asymmetry between their decay leptons. These measurements use the full data sets collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=1.96  TeV. We report the results of combinations of the inclusive asymmetries and their differential dependencies on relevant kinematic quantities. The combined inclusive asymmetry is AFBtt¯=0.128±0.025. The combined inclusive and differential asymmetries are consistent with recent standard model predictions

Tevatron Run II combination of the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle

International audienceDrell-Yan lepton pairs produced in the process pp¯→ℓ+ℓ-+X through an intermediate γ*/Z boson have an asymmetry in their angular distribution related to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak force and the associated mixing of its neutral gauge bosons. The CDF and D0 experiments have measured the effective-leptonic electroweak mixing parameter sin2θefflept using electron and muon pairs selected from the full Tevatron proton-antiproton data sets collected in 2001-2011, corresponding to 9–10  fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The combination of these measurements yields the most precise result from hadron colliders, sin2θefflept=0.23148±0.00033. This result is consistent with, and approaches in precision, the best measurements from electron-positron colliders. The standard model inference of the on-shell electroweak mixing parameter sin2θW, or equivalently the W-boson mass MW, using the zfitter software package yields sin2θW=0.22324±0.00033 or equivalently, MW=80.367±0.017  GeV/c2