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Beyond the Constitution? Englishness in a post-devolved Britain
The notion that we are currently witnessing a growing commitment to English nationalism and deeper and wider identification with Englishness, as opposed to Britishness, is becoming part of the political wisdom of the age. The suggestion that the English are beginning to think of themselves as a nation with a separate identity from the other nationalities within the United Kingdom feeds into a vexed debate among politicians and commentators about the identity and future of ‘Britishness’ itself.
This paper argues for the adoption of a greater sense of historical proportion about these trends, and challenges the widely held presumption that the rise of Englishness signals the death-knell of values and identities associated with Britishness
“Past Master”: Czeslaw Milosz and his Impact on Seamus Heaney's Poetry
The essay examines the influence of Czeslaw Milosz on Seamus Heaney's writing, focusing primarily on the early 1980s, which was a period of major transition in Heaney's literary and academic career, following the success of Field Work (1979) in the USA and his appointment as a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard. It establishes the political and biographical contexts for Heaney's reception of Milosz's prose and poetry, and discusses the importance of Milosz's Nobel Lecture and his memoir, Native Realm, in fostering Heaney's feelings of affinity and sense of difference. Composed in the wake of Solidarity's challenge to the post-war status quo, Milosz's reflections in the Nobel Lecture on history, art, and the artist's responsibilities had a profound resonance for his fellow exile, uncertain as he was how to address the Hunger Strikes in the collection he was working on, Station Island. The essay thus explores the range of factors which resulted in Milosz becoming The Master to Heaney, and ends offering an analysis of his poem of that title. It draws on a range of literary and historical sources, including the Heaney archives at Emory, Atlanta. Since it is the centenary of Milosz's birth, it offers a timely reminder of his importance in world literature. (Since it may not be familiar to many readers, I have included an outline of Milosz's biography at the start of the essay.) © 2013 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
The ergodic theorems.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit
Enriched categories as a free cocompletion
This paper has two objectives. The first is to develop the theory of
bicategories enriched in a monoidal bicategory -- categorifying the classical
theory of categories enriched in a monoidal category -- up to a description of
the free cocompletion of an enriched bicategory under a class of weighted
bicolimits. The second objective is to describe a universal property of the
process assigning to a monoidal category V the equipment of V-enriched
categories, functors, transformations, and modules; we do so by considering,
more generally, the assignation sending an equipment C to the equipment of
C-enriched categories, functors, transformations, and modules, and exhibiting
this as the free cocompletion of a certain kind of enriched bicategory under a
certain class of weighted bicolimits.Comment: 80 pages; final journal versio
Testing CMB polarization data using position angles
We consider a novel null test for contamination which can be applied to CMB
polarization data that involves analysis of the statistics of the polarization
position angles. Specifically, we will concentrate on using histograms of the
measured position angles to illustrate the idea. Such a test has been used to
identify systematics in the NVSS point source catalogue with an amplitude well
below the noise level. We explore the statistical properties of polarization
angles in CMB maps. If the polarization angle is not correlated between pixels,
then the errors follow a simple law. However this is typically
not the case for CMB maps since these have correlations which result in an
increase in the variance since the effective number of independent pixels is
reduced. Then we illustrate how certain classes of systematic errors can result
in very obvious patterns in these histograms, and thus that these errors could
possibly be identified using this method. We discuss how this idea might be
applied in a realistic context, and make a preliminary analysis of the WMAP7
data, finding evidence of a systematic error in the Q and W band data,
consistent with a constant offset in Q and U.Comment: Accepted by MNRA
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