The Indirect Path to the Literary Canon Exemplified by Shelley\u27s Frankenstein

In his article The Indirect Path to the Literary Canon Exemplified by Shelley\u27s Frankenstein David Fishelov examines the indirect path of Mary Shelley\u27s Frankenstein to the literary canon. Fishelov offers a multi-dimensional model for describing the dynamic process of acquiring, maintaining, and changing canonical status. The model emphasizes the important role played by artistic dialogues and echoes that certain works initiate or inspire in other authors and artists in the form of allusion, homage, parody, and adaptation. The data introduced in the article suggest that the popular cinematic versions of Frankenstein probably not only played a mediating role but also contributed to making Mary Shelley\u27s novel part and parcel of the contemporary literary canon

Auto-adaptive multi-scale Laplacian Pyramids for modeling non-uniform data

Kernel-based techniques have become a common way for describing the local and global relationships of data samples that are generated in real-world processes. In this research, we focus on a multi-scale kernel based technique named Auto-adaptive Laplacian Pyramids (ALP). This method can be useful for function approximation and interpolation. ALP is an extension of the standard Laplacian Pyramids model that incorporates a modified Leave-One-Out Cross Validation procedure, which makes the method stable and automatic in terms of parameters selection without extra cost. This paper introduces a new algorithm that extends ALP to fit datasets that are non-uniformly distributed. In particular, the optimal stopping criterion will be point-dependent with respect to the local noise level and the sample rate. Experimental results over real datasets highlight the advantages of the proposed multi-scale technique for modeling and learning complex, high dimensional dataThey wish to thank Prof. Ronald R. Coifman for helpful remarks. They 525 also gratefully acknowledge the use of the facilities of Centro de Computación Científica (CCC) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Funding: This work was supported by Spanish grants of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades [grant numbers: TIN2013-42351-P, TIN2015-70308-REDT, TIN2016-76406-P]; project CASI-CAM-CM supported by Madri+d 530 [grant number: S2013/ICE-2845]; project FACIL supported by Fundación BBVA (2016); and the UAM–ADIC Chair for Data Science and Machine Learnin

Literary studies and the academy

In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. The holder of the chair was, according to the statutes, to ‘lecture and give instruction on the broad history and criticism of English Language and Literature, and on the works of approved English authors’. This was not in itself a particularly innovatory move, as the study of English vernacular literature had played some part in higher education in Britain for over a century. Oxford University had put English as a subject into its pass degree in 1873, had been participating since 1878 in extension teaching, of which literary study formed a significant part, and had since 1881 been setting special examinations in the subject for its non-graduating women students. What was new was the fact that this ancient university appeared to be on the verge of granting the solid academic legitimacy of an established chair to an institutionally marginal and often contentious intellectual pursuit, acknowledging the study of literary texts in English to be a fit subject not just for women and the educationally disadvantaged but also for university men

The Poetics of Six-Word Stories

Structural examination of the six-word story as a literary genre, frequently referencing the prototypical “baby shoes” story attributed to Hemingway. Fishelov considers the history of the genre and its differentiating characteristics in addition to laying out the necessary elements of a successful six-word story

Literary genres — alive and kicking : The productivity of a literary concept

Fishelov David. Literary genres — alive and kicking : The productivity of a literary concept. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 75, fasc. 3, 1997. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 653-663