bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor therapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Authors: Moldan Matthew M. , Bostrom Bruce C , Tibesar Robert J , Lander Timothy A. , Sidman James D.
Published: October 2013

The epidermal growth factor pathway has been implicated in various tumors, including human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions such as recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). Due to the presence of epidermal growth factor receptors in RRP, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors have been utilized as adjuvant therapy. This case series examines the response to EGFR inhibitors in RRP. Four patients with life-threatening RRP were treated with EGFR inhibitors. Operative frequency and anatomical Derkay scores were calculated prior to, and following EGFR inhibitor treatment via retrospective chart review. The anatomical Derkay score decreased for all four patients after initiation of EGFR inhibitor therapy. In one patient, the operative frequency increased after switching to an intravenous inhibitor after loss of control with an oral inhibitor. In the other patients there was a greater than 20% decrease in operative frequency in one and a more than doubling in the time between procedures in two.  This study suggests that EGFR inhibitors are a potential adjuvant therapy in RRP and deserve further study in a larger number of patients.
The Warwick Hip Trauma Evaluation Two – an abridged protocol for the WHiTE Two Study
Authors: Griffin X. L. , McArthur J. , Achten J. , Parsons N. , Costa M. L.
Published: October 2013

Fractures of the proximal femur are one of the greatest challenges facing the medical community, constituting a heavy socioeconomic burden worldwide. Controversy exists regarding the optimal treatment for independent patients with displaced intracapsular fractures of the proximal femur. The recognised alternatives are hemiarthroplasty and total hip replacement. At present there is no established standard of care, with both types of arthroplasty being used in many centres. The principal advantages of total hip replacement are a functional benefit over hemiarthroplasty and a reduced risk of revision surgery. The principal criticism is the increased risk of dislocation. We believe that an alternative acetabular component may reduce the risk of dislocation but still provide the functional benefit of total hip replacement in these patients. We therefore propose to investigate the dislocation risk of a dual-mobility acetabular component compared with standard polyethylene component in total hip replacement for independent patients with displaced intracapsular fractures of the proximal femur within the framework of the larger WHiTE (Warwick Hip Trauma Evaluation) Comprehensive Cohort Study.

Cite this article: Bone Joint Res 2013;2:210–13.
The quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on three-dimensional Zoll manifolds
Authors: Herr Sebastian
Published: September 2013

Let $(M,g)$ be a three-dimensional smooth compact Riemannian manifold such that
all geodesics are simple and closed with a common minimal period, such as the
$3$-sphere ${\Bbb S}^3$ with canonical metric. In this work the global well-posedness
problem for the quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_t u+\Delta u=
\pm |u|^4u$, $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ is solved for small initial data $u_0$ in the energy
space $H^1(M)$, which is the scaling-critical space. Further, local well-posedness
for large data, as well as persistence of higher initial Sobolev regularity is
obtained. This extends previous results of Burq-G\'erard-Tzvetkov to the endpoint
case.
Dirac cohomology, K -characters and branching laws
Authors: Huang Jing-Song , Pandžić Pavle , Zhu Fuhai
Published: September 2013

Inspired by work of Enright and Willenbring, we prove a generalized Littlewood’s restriction formula in terms of Dirac cohomology. Our approach is to use a character formula of irreducible unitary lowest weight modules instead of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolution, and the proof is much simpler. We also show that our branching formula is equivalent to the formula of Enright and Willenbring in terms of nilpotent Lie algebra cohomology. This follows from the close relationship between the Dirac cohomology and the corresponding nilpotent Lie algebra cohomology for unitary representations of semisimple Lie groups of Hermitian type, which was established by Huang, Pandzic, and Renard.
A multi-dimensional resolution of singularities with applications to analysis
Authors: Collins Tristan C. , Greenleaf Allan , Pramanik Malabika
Published: September 2013

We formulate a resolution of singularities algorithm for analyzing the zero sets of
real-analytic functions in dimensions $\geq 3$. Rather than using the celebrated result
of Hironaka, the algorithm is modeled on a more explicit and elementary approach used
in the contemporary algebraic geometry literature. As an application, we define a new
notion of the height of real-analytic functions, compute the critical integrability
index, and obtain sharp growth rate of sublevel sets. This also leads to a
characterization of the oscillation index of scalar oscillatory integrals
with real-analytic phases in all dimensions.
Singular solutions to special Lagrangian equations with subcritical phases and minimal surface systems
Authors: Wang Dake , Yuan Yu
Published: September 2013

We construct singular solutions to special Lagrangian equations with subcritical phases and minimal surface systems. A priori estimate breaking families of smooth solutions are also produced correspondingly. A priori estimates for special Lagrangian equations with certain convexity are largely known by now.
Integral points of bounded height on compactifications of semi-simple groups
Authors: Takloo-Bighash Ramin , Tschinkel Yuri
Published: September 2013

We study the asymptotic distribution of integral points of bounded height on partial bi-equivariant compactifications of semi-simple groups of adjoint type.
On the Siegel-Weil formula for quaternionic unitary groups
Authors: Yamana Shunsuke
Published: September 2013

We extend the Siegel-Weil formula to all quaternion dual pairs. Applications include the classification problem of skew hermitian forms over a quaternion algebra over a number field and a product formula for the weighted average of the representation numbers of a skew hermitian form by another skew hermitian form.
Spherical functions on spherical varieties
Authors: Sakellaridis Yiannis
Published: September 2013

Let ${\bf X}={\bf H}\backslash{\bf G}$ be a homogeneous spherical variety
for a split reductive group ${\bf G}$ over the integers $\frak o$ of a
$p$-adic field $k$, and $K={\bf G}(\frak o)$ a hyperspecial maximal
compact subgroup of $G={\bf G}(k)$. We compute eigenfunctions (``spherical
functions'') on $X={\bf X}(k)$ under the action of the unramified (or
spherical) Hecke algebra of $G$, generalizing many classical results of
``Casselman-Shalika'' type. Under some additional assumptions on ${\bf X}$
we also prove a variant of the formula which involves a certain quotient
of $L$-values, and we present several applications such as: (1) a
statement on ``good test vectors'' in the multiplicity-free case (namely,
that an $H$-invariant functional on an irreducible unramified
representation $\pi$ is non-zero on $\pi^K$), (2) the unramified
Plancherel formula for $X$, including a formula for the ``Tamagawa
measure'' of ${\bf X}(\frak o)$, and (3) a computation of the most
continuous part of ${\bf H}$-period integrals of principal Eisenstein
series.
Images of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children's Literature and Media
Authors: Qafleshi Enkelena Shockett
Published: September 2013

This paper analyzes the portrayal of the noncommunist other in Albanian children's literature published during the communist era and examines how Communist-era children's literature idealizes Albanian ethnicity and links it to valorized notions of socialist class struggle. Combining analysis of images of the other juxtaposed with images of the idealized Albanian, I conclude that Communist-era Albanian children's literature served as propaganda for Communist political intentions to construct the socialist "new man."
Exploring the Text/Image Wilderness: Ironic Visual Perspective and Critical Thinking in George O'Connor's Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country
Authors: Boerman-Cornell William
Published: September 2013

In George O'Connor's graphic novel adaptation of a Dutch translation of Harmen VandenBogaert's Journey into Mohawk Country, the images interact with the text in ironic ways. The text of VandenBogaert's journal presents his interpretation of the events while O'Connor's images depict how the Mohawk Tribe may have viewed the same events. This multimodal reading highlights five kinds of visual irony then considers the implications of this way of reading for teaching students to think critically.
Teacher Authored Supplementary Reading Materials in South Africa
Authors: Sailors Misty , Martinez Miriam , Villareal Lorena
Published: September 2013

This article explores the nature of stories appearing in supplementary reading books authored by teachers in South Africa. Teachers wrote about topics including the role of education in improving lives and the richness and diversity of South Africa. Themes included caring, responsibility, achieving goals, earned respect, traditional values and breaking gender barriers. As authors, teachers act to uphold the values and morals of a society and as change agents when provided with ample opportunities.
Death and the Empathic Embrace in Four Contemporary Picture Books
Authors: Clement Lesley
Published: September 2013

How can children transcend the tendency to empathize with those similar to themselves over those who are different, and so begin the journey to cross those boundaries that the fear of the unknown imposes? This paper examines the strategies within the visual and verbal narratives of four picture books by recent recipients of IBBY's Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in their confrontation of the most formidable of all unknowns—death.
The Socialite Network
Authors: Abrahamian Atossa Araxia
Published: September 2013

Patrick Liotard-Vogt is the type of person who doesn’t live anywhere year round. Instead, he’s “based” places: Zurich, New York, St. Kitts and Nevis, with pit stops in Paris, Mumbai, and London. His favorite beach destination is St. Barths. His favorite hotel is a converted convent in Puglia, Italy, lauded by the society pages and run by a former treasurer of the British Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher. Vogt’s high-class mobility is on full display on A Small World, the self-consciously exclusive social network that he has invested in and now chairs. ASW has tried for years to become the go-to site for young global professionals who are, or are in the process of becoming, very rich.
Labour’s Austerity Problem
Authors: Wickham-Jones Mark
Published: September 2013

Since losing the 2010 general election in the United Kingdom, Labour has struggled to develop a forceful alternative to the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition’s program for eliminating the public deficit through sweeping and sustained cuts in public spending. Labour’s current difficulties are partly of the party’s own making. They reflect its failure over the last twenty years to develop a social democratic economic alternative underpinned by a consistent, coherent reformist narrative. Too often Labour’s policies have been characterized either by their concessions to neoliberal arguments or by the pragmatic and ad hoc manner in which they were constructed. In government between 1997 and 2007, Labour made much of its apparent capacity to manage the economy successfully during what Gordon Brown called “the longest period of economic stability and sustained growth in our country’s history.”
The Audacity of Despair
Authors: Blyth Mark
Published: September 2013

Few topics have been covered in such depth by academic and popular authors as the topic of Fear Itself: the New Deal and “the origins of our time.” Indeed, Ira Katznelson asks: what is left to say, and especially at such length, about such a well-worn furrow? His answer is a lot more than you would think, especially when seen from a rather unusual angle. The clue to that angle lies in the title. Fear Itself is necessarily a big book because Katznelson wants to give us a big picture—not just of the many tortured and unsavory relationships that made the New Deal possible, of dalliances with fascists and alliances with racists and communists, but also of the evolution of the U.S. state and, by extension, of democratic capitalism around the world. Yet more than this, the book is at heart an examination of the role played by fear as a driver of institutional and political change in democratic politics.
Spiking in the Favelas: Violence and Volleyball in Rio
Authors: McCann Bryan
Published: September 2013

Ravel Gonçalves Mendonça is a seventeenyear-old beach volleyball phenom from Rio de Janeiro. He is currently training with Brazil’s national team at its state-of-the-art facility in Saquarema, a hundred kilometers north of Rio. He represents the junior national team and hopes to make the cut for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in his home city. But his country’s preparation for the Olympics has eliminated what used to be Ravel’s home. Until recently, he lived with his family—father Rosinaldo, mother Rosilene, and brothers Ruan (eighteen) and Roger (six)—in a community known as Largo do Tanque, not far from the Olympic stadia under construction in the West Zone of the vast municipality. In the first months of this year, much of Largo do Tanque, including the Mendonça family home, was razed to make way for the Transcarioca Expressway, a rapidtransit highway for buses that will link Rio’s international airport with the Olympic village, cutting through working-class North and West Zone neighborhoods on its way. Ravel’s story illustrates both the promise and the peril of the Olympics for residents of favelas and other working-class subdivisions.
Letter to Hillary Clinton: Let’s Talk About Poverty
Authors: Block Fred , Piven Frances Fox
Published: September 2013

We don’t know whether you will run for president in 2016, but whatever you decide, we think that you should step forward now to launch a national debate about poverty and welfare. You are uniquely positioned to exercise leadership in discussing how public policy fails to respond to the needs of the poor. Specifically, we are asking for you to open a conversation about the shortcomings of the 1996 welfare legislation that was passed when you and Bill Clinton were in the White House. Such a conversation is urgent regardless of who might run for president in 2016. Permit us to lay out some of this history—not to blame any of the participants, but to establish the context that influenced them. Bill Clinton campaigned for the presidency in 1992 with the promise “to end welfare as we know it.”
What Happens to a Dream Deferred
Authors: Barker Tim
Published: September 2013

I’m sometimes asked if Florida is in the South. Well, it’s a big state, I’ll usually say, and regional boundaries are never well defined. This summer, though, the headlines suggested some new reasons to answer the question in the affirmative. “With Voting Rights Act Gutted, Florida Set to Resume Voter Purge.” “Jury Acquits Zimmerman of All Charges.” I grew up in Brevard County, adjacent to the county where George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin. Brevard is most famous for vacation beaches and the space program, but its courthouse is named after Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, NAACP leaders murdered there in 1951 by Klansmen who were never brought to trial. In 2012 six white supremacists currently or formerly residing in Brevard were arrested on charges that included manufacturing ricin in preparation for an “inevitable race war.”
Hollywood in Revolt?
Authors: Osterweil Willie
Published: September 2013

For a couple months, in every subway station in New York City, emblazoned on the sides of buses and atop taxi cabs, was the White House on fire. Old Glory, reduced to bullet-ridden tatters, floated before it. Across the bottom the ad read, “Olympus Has Fallen.” (A good piece of film criticism would have been to cover up that text with a big “Coming Soon.”) Olympus Has Fallen made $100 million in the United States, which means something like 10 million people saw the movie. But how many millions just saw the poster?
The New Left Wasn’t So New
Authors: Phelps Christopher
Published: September 2013

Now so familiar as to risk seeming clichéd, “We Shall Overcome” was the paramount song of the civil rights movement. “Deep in my heart, I do believe that we shall overcome some day”: the song spoke to a generation’s idealism, solidarity, and optimism in the transcendence of injustice. It is now practically lost to memory that the song enjoyed an equal vitality within the early New Left. We Shall Overcome was the official songbook title of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a group more important than the better-known Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in generating sixties New Left radicalism. When Tom Hayden, at age eighteen, traveled south from Michigan in 1961 to observe SNCC’s efforts to register black voters in Mississippi, he returned to write the SDS pamphlet Revolution in Mississippi, which, issued in the same year as The Port Huron Statement, reproduced all the words to “We Shall Overcome” on its title page.
Big Philanthropy vs. Democracy: The Plutocrats Go to School
Authors: Barkan Joanne
Published: September 2013

Big philanthropy was born in the United States in the early twentieth century. The Russell Sage Foundation received its charter in 1907, the Carnegie Corporation in 1911, and the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. These were strange new creatures—quite unlike traditional charities. They had vastly greater assets and were structured legally and financially to last forever. In addition, each was governed by a self-perpetuating board of private trustees; they were affiliated with no religious denomination; and they adopted grand, open-ended missions along the lines of “improve the human condition.” They were launched, in essence, as immense tax-exempt private corporations dealing in good works. But they would do good according to their own lights, and they would intervene in public life with no accountability to the republic required.
Gay Marriage and the Limits of French Liberalism
Authors: Baruch Marc Olivier
Published: September 2013

Last spring the rights of same-sex couples gained recognition in a number of places throughout the world. In the United States, three states—Delaware, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—legalized same-sex marriage, while supreme courts in two heavyweights on the international scene, Brazil and Germany, struck down statutes discriminating against homosexuals in the name of equality under the law. All these places have quite different social structures and legal systems, yet gay marriage did not stir much controversy in any of them.
Introduction: The European Left in Crisis
Authors: Berman Sheri
Published: September 2013

Europe is going through its worst crisis since the Great Depression and the Second World War. Economically, the continent is in a terrible mess, with the euro area having experienced overall negative growth rates in three of the past five years, tragic and unprecedented levels of unemployment (especially among youth), and a dramatic increase in poverty and inequality. In addition, Europe has been tearing itself up over identity and cultural issues. Previously the provenance of the extreme left and extreme right, fears about European integration’s impact on national sovereignty and identity have bled into the mainstream...
Henry Wallace’s Flawed Crusade
Authors: Arnesen Eric
Published: September 2013

Henry A. Wallace’s campaign for the presidency in 1948, amid the intense political battles of the immediate postwar years, gave Americans a genuine alternative to the status quo. Wallace’s was a “voice in the wilderness of doubt,” the California Eagle, a left-wing African-American weekly, concluded on the eve of the election. “That this country may enjoy some measure of peace in the coming years, Henry Wallace must be placed at the head of this nation. His voice alone can dispel the cloud of fear and despair settling over Europe. He alone can bring peace to the hearts of Americans.” His opponents were the presumed frontrunner, Republican Thomas Dewey, and underdog Democratic candidate Harry S. Truman, both of whom embraced a tough stand against the Soviet Union abroad and accepted the parameters of the New Deal at home, and Strom Thurmond, who had bolted from the Democratic Party to champion white supremacy and states’ rights as the leader of the newly formed Dixiecrats
Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington
Authors: Losse Kate
Published: September 2013

As Silicon Valley companies have grown, with skyrocketing profits and public approbation, their executives have been startled recently to encounter an obstacle beyond their control: government regulation. Facebook now employs enough H1-B visa holders to trigger limits on its employment of hightech immigrant workers. For a company that has built a global empire on “sharing,” or moving user data through Facebook’s system as freely as possible, the prospect of limits—whether on the distribution of data or human resources—is not welcome. Facebook’s slogan, “move fast and break things,” takes as a given that the company is firmly in the driver’s seat, choosing its speed and what limits it will surpass, without its pace regulated by outside forces. Accustomed to relative technical sovereignty, Facebook and its cohort see the prospect of federal immigration restrictions not as a divergence of their interests with that of the public, but as an outdated threat from Washington, the imposition of old values on an ecosystem that has transcended them.
Islam and Social Democrats: Integrating Europe’s Muslim Minorities
Authors: Laurence Jonathan
Published: September 2013

The first serious divergences between Muslims and the left in Europe began with the fatwa issued by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie in 1989 and religious demands to censor his novel, The Satanic Verses. The split widened later that year, when France began to restrict the wearing of girls’ headscarves in schools.Until then, parties on the left had embraced the mostly working-class minority as a natural ally. Migrants from Muslim-majority countries first began settling permanently in Western Europe in the 1970s and ’80s. .
The Long Shadow of Mont Pèlerin
Authors: Shenk Timothy
Published: September 2013

Once there was a golden age of democratic capitalism. Chastened by the Great Depression and cowed by vigorous labor movements, a generation of leaders forged a new type of political economy in the aftermath of the Second World War that united economic growth with robust welfare regimes. Then in the 1970s something went wrong, and the marriage of prosperity and equality crumbled. From the ashes of a fractured consensus, neoliberalism emerged. Suddenly the language of the market was on everyone’s lips, and deregulation, financialization, and a neologism called globalization carried the day. Franklin Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, and General Motors stand on one side of this yawning chasm, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, and Goldman Sachs on the other.
The Machiavelli of Nonviolence: Gene Sharp and the Battle Against Corporate Rule
Authors: Engler Mark
Published: September 2013

If there are some things in life that should not be bet on, the question of who will next win the Nobel Peace Prize somehow feels like it should be among them. Internet bookmakers, however, will place odds on almost anything, and they are not above taking wagers on Nobel prospects. Over the past two years, some of the safest money has not been on a head of state, a major nongovernmental organization, or a charismatic resistance leader, but rather on a soft-spoken, eighty-five-year-old academic. His name is Gene Sharp. Sharp, a theorist and author of groundbreaking works on the dynamics of nonviolent conflict, has been called the “dictator slayer,” the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” and the Clausewitz of unarmed revolution. His circumstances are humble: he runs his research outfit, known as the Albert Einstein Institution, out of the ground floor of his row house in East Boston, and the organization has just one other staffer.
Can Germany’s Social Democrats Offer an Alternative?
Authors: Kundnani Hans
Published: September 2013

Since the euro crisis began in 2010, Germany has found itself in a position that, like the crisis itself, is unprecedented in the history of the European Union. As the largest creditor in a single-currency area consisting of sovereign states, Germany has had extraordinary power during the crisis—so much so that during the last few years Europeans have been debating whether Germany is now a regional “hegemon” and even whether a “German empire” is emerging. Frustrated with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s slow but unyielding approach to the crisis, Europe has looked to the Social Democrats—Germany’s largest opposition party—for an alternative, in particular the debt mutualization that many economists think is necessary.
American Futures: The Shortcomings of the Governing Class
Authors: Faux Jeff
Published: September 2013

Americans’ perception of the future bounces between two contradictory visions. One is that the country is drifting toward decline. Polls report widespread belief that the younger generation of Americans will be worse off than their parents, that U.S. influence in the world is weakening, and that our governing institutions are incompetent and corrupt. At the same time, a majority thinks that although the country may be going to hell, they and their families will prosper. According to a Pew survey, 63 percent of Americans think that forty years from now the standard of living of the average family will not improve, with 36 percent thinking it will get even worse. At the same time, 64 percent are optimistic that they personally and their families will be better off. Indeed, like the citizens of Lake Wobegon, over 70 percent of Americans believe that their income is above average. This perceived disconnect between one’s personal fate and one’s country’s surely helps explain the low level of public outrage in this post-crash era of high unemployment and falling wages.
A Day in the Life
Authors: Kazin Michael
Published: September 2013

This past July, in the middle of a summer of political discontent, there occurred a small reason for hope. In seven American cities, thousands of men and women who toil at fast-food chain restaurants picketed in loud and energetic one-day strikes. They demanded the seemingly impossible: a wage of $15 an hour, almost double the rate many workers now receive for jobs that require them to stand up for many hours, serving an estimated fifty million people every day.
Blood and Tourism in Kashmir
Authors: Jeelani Mehboob
Published: September 2013

Last summer, during an overnight bus trip from New Delhi to Srinagar—the summer capital of the Indian-controlled state of Jammu and Kashmir—I met a young man, with non-branded aviator sunglasses perched on his head, accompanied by two Canadian male backpackers about his age. He responded to the questions of his traveling companions in English with a mix of British and American accents. “You’ll love this journey,” he assured them. “You are going to heaven.” He gave them two bottles of mineral water and some biscuits before retiring on a seat beside me. The bus was crammed with people from across North India: Punjabis, Biharis, and a handful of Kashmiris. As we drove out of Delhi, the man with the aviators tapped me on my shoulder. He asked me in Hindi if I was interested in trading my window seat for his aisle seat. I declined curtly.
A New Left in Greece: PASOK’s Fall and SYRIZA’s Rise
Authors: Moschonas Gerassimos
Published: September 2013

When Alexis Tsipras went to vote on June 17, 2012, television channels from all over the world gathered around the school auditorium where he was casting his ballot. Someone unfamiliar with Greek politics might have supposed that this blaze of publicity was focused on a rock star or world leader. Who, after all, was Alexis Tsipras? As the head of the parliamentary group of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left), he had led a motley confederation of small leftist parties to an underwhelming 4.6 percent of the vote in the 2009 elections. That same year, his position as informal leader had been vehemently challenged even within the coalition.
What Armies Do: Women Under Occupation
Authors: Gordon Linda
Published: September 2013

The title of Mary Louise Roberts’s new book, What Soldiers Do, says it all: sexual abuses are not the product of aberrant, badly disciplined soldiers, but of soldiering itself. And behind the title is an implied correlate: What Armies Do. Carefully, keeping her anger in check, and with wit, deep research, and telling vignettes, Mary Louise Roberts has given us a masterful study of sexual transactions between American GIs and French women in the Second World War. It is a case study of the violence practiced, but censored, by all militaries: the sexual abuse of women. Now that the United States has massive “peacetime” armed forces that include women, the abuse is often directed at other soldiers.
Epiphanius of Salamis and the Antiquarian’s Bible
Authors: Jacobs Andrew S.
Published: September 2013

Compared to more philosophical biblical interpreters such as Origen, Epiphanius of Salamis often appears to modern scholars as plodding, literalist, reactionary, meandering, and unsophisticated. In this article I argue that Epiphanius’s eclectic and seemingly disorganized treatment of the Bible actually draws on a common, imperial style of antiquarianism. Through an examination of four major treatises of Epiphanius—his Panarion and Ancoratus , as well as his lesser-studied biblical treatises, On Weights and Measures and On Gems —I trace this antiquarian style and suggest that perhaps Epiphanius’s antiquarian Bible might have resonated more broadly than the high-flown intellectual Bible of thinkers like Origen.
Plotinus’s Portrait and Pamphilus’s Prison Notebook: Neoplatonic and Early Christian Textualities at the Turn of the Fourth Century C.E.
Authors: Schott Jeremy
Published: September 2013

This article focuses on two “sibling” intellectual communities—the neoplatonic circle of Plotinus and Porphyry and the Christian intellectual circle of Pamphilus and Eusebius of Caesarea—to consider in what ways each developed different theories and practices of reading and writing. Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus can be read as an extended and deliberate engagement with the problem of writing as elaborated in Plato’s Phaedrus . Porphyry’s neoplatonic textuality situates writing as a problematic mimesis, and subordinates written texts to dialectical relationships within the philosophical circle. By contrast, the Caesareans advocate and practice a textuality that self-consciously embraces the use and production of written texts as a primary site for the production of orthodox discourse.
Literacy and Memory in Evagrius’s Monasticism
Authors: Krawiec Rebecca
Published: September 2013

This paper examines Evagrius’s monastic literacy, that is, his views on how to write and read monastic texts, in order to argue for the central role of memory in that literacy. Evagrius’s textuality is Origenist because of the hierarchical relationship between material text and spiritual meaning; that textuality shapes Evagrius’s identity as a monastic writer and the esoteric quality of reading in his monastic community. A collective monastic memory is one element that is necessary to read his texts properly, namely, in a way that will allow access to the spiritual strength in the text. Yet memory, like texts, engages the same tension between corporeal reality and immaterial goals that is at the heart of Evagrius’s monasticism. The relationship between literacy and monasticism shapes the memory of Evagrius in the works of two of his followers, Palladius and John Cassian.
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
Authors: Matsuoka Mikinari
Published: September 2013

This article investigates the nature of predication of so-called subject-oriented adverbs in English. It is noted that there are both conceptual and empirical issues to be addressed. On the conceptual side, there is no consensus in previous studies on what exactly the notion of subject is for these adverbs and why these adverbs have an orientation to the subject. On the empirical side, there are circumstances in which some of the adverbs seem to be construed with the object argument of the verb. This article focuses on these problems through an examination of the adverbs occurring in locative, passive, unaccusative, and resultative constructions. It is argued that when these adverbs seem to be associated with the object, they are predicated of a phonetically empty pronoun that occurs as the subject of a small clause, controlled by the object. Moreover, it is indicated that subject-oriented adverbs occurring in different positions across different constructions are all parasitically predicated of DPs that are introduced by a functional head in primary predication. Given the proposal made in recent studies that predication relationships between lexical categories and their external arguments in general are mediated by a functional head, it is claimed that subject-oriented adverbs also need to be supported by such a head to be associated with DPs. Thus, it is concluded that the notion of subject for these adverbs and their orientation are derived from the general theory of predication.
Embedded imperatives: Empirical evidence from Colloquial German
Authors: Kaufmann Magdalena , Poschmann Claudia
Published: September 2013

We offer experimental data from Colloquial German that involve imperative morphology in speech reports and in the scope of wh - elements. We confirm two independent restrictions on these phenomena, whose statistical significance provides evidence for the existence of embedded imperatives in Colloquial German in general.
Verb phrase ellipsis: The view from information structure
Authors: Kertz Laura
Published: September 2013

An analysis of antecedent mismatch effects under ellipsis is proposed to explain why some cases of verb phrase ellipsis exhibit a sizeable penalty when the elided target is not structurally matched to its antecedent, while other cases show little or no penalty at all. The proposal attributes the penalty in the former case to an information-structural constraint governing contrastive topics, and it is argued that previous accounts have misattributed that penalty to a licensing constraint on ellipsis. Results from four experiments (three off-line acceptability, one on-line self-paced reading) confirm that the relative size of the mismatch penalty can be reliably predicted based on the information structure of the clause containing the ellipsis and that acceptability differences associated with information structure are observable even in the absence of ellipsis.
Morphological Organization: The Low Conditional Entropy Conjecture
Authors: Ackerman Farrell , Malouf Robert
Published: September 2013

Crosslinguistically, inflectional morphology exhibits a spectacular range of complexity in both the structure of individual words and the organization of systems that words participate in. We distinguish two dimensions in the analysis of morphological complexity. enumerative complexity (E-complexity) reflects the number of morphosyntactic distinctions that languages make and the strategies employed to encode them, concerning either the internal composition of words or the arrangement of classes of words into inflection classes. This, we argue, is constrained by integrative complexity (I-complexity). The I-complexity of an inflectional system reflects the difficulty that a paradigmatic system poses for language users (rather than lexicographers) in information-theoretic terms. This becomes clear by distinguishing average paradigm entropy from average conditional entropy . The average entropy of a paradigm is the uncertainty in guessing the realization for a particular cell of the paradigm of a particular lexeme (given knowledge of the possible exponents). This gives one a measure of the complexity of a morphological system—systems with more exponents and more inflection classes will in general have higher average paradigm entropy—but it presupposes a problem that adult native speakers will never encounter. In order to know that a lexeme exists, the speaker must have heard at least one word form, so in the worst case a speaker will be faced with predicting a word form based on knowledge of one other word form of that lexeme. Thus, a better measure of morphological complexity is the average conditional entropy, the average uncertainty in guessing the realization of one randomly selected cell in the paradigm of a lexeme given the realization of one other randomly selected cell. This is the I-complexity of paradigm organization. Viewed from this information-theoretic perspective, languages that appear to differ greatly in their E-complexity—the number of exponents, inflectional classes, and principal parts—can actually be quite similar in terms of the challenge they pose for a language user who already knows how the system works. We adduce evidence for this hypothesis from three sources: a comparison between languages of varying degrees of E-complexity, a case study from the particularly challenging conjugational system of Chiquihuitlán Mazatec, and a Monte Carlo simulation modeling the encoding of morphosyntactic properties into formal expressions. The results of these analyses provide evidence for the crucial status of words and paradigms for understanding morphological organization.
Gift Subscriptions: Underwriting Emergent Agencies in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth
Authors: Im Jeannie
Published: September 2013

This article explores the Modernist life narrative in the context of interwar citizenship policies that exposed women to an increased risk of statelessness on both sides of the Atlantic. Read together, Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth (1929) and Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas (1938) bring this transnational context into view. While access to rights may indicate the ideal endpoint of subject-formation in the traditional Bildungsroman , Woolf and Smedley demonstrate how women’s access to rights comes at the cost of nonnormative desire. Their works use a rhetoric of incivility to mark emergent agencies within and alongside formal structures of citizenship.
Speculating on an Art Movement: Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Authors: Siraganian Lisa
Published: September 2013

Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) amalgamates narrative and market-making aims. Adapting important formal features of the novel, the text depicts the story of the cubist movement to reveal how financial and creative speculation motivates modern art movements. Ventriloquizing Toklas enables Stein to distinguish the social world’s version of speculation (embodied by Toklas) from Stein’s aesthetic version. Simultaneously, the women’s committed partnership renders monetary and aesthetic speculation indivisible and interdependent. Stein’s feminine “wife” represents the degraded public sphere, while the text allegorizes different forms of speculation, knowledge, and value, binding them together.
Formative Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival
Authors: Krishnan Sanjay
Published: September 2013

The Enigma of Arrival represents a significant shift in V. S. Naipaul’s corpus. In earlier work Naipaul used realist techniques to depict the periphery as the product of a historical derangement. In Enigma , Naipaul focuses on himself as a narrating subject who is the product of a disturbance that he cannot overthrow, only channel. The originality of The Enigma of Arrival lies in its attempt to engage, at the level of form, the disorienting effects of the periphery’s induction into modernity.
My Self, My Other: Modernism and Postcolonial Bildung in Assia Djebar’s Algerian Quartet
Authors: Castle Gregory
Published: September 2013

In recent years, Bildung and the Bildungsroman genre have attracted considerable attention, especially in modernist and postcolonial studies, which have re-evaluated the former’s conceptual relevance and the latter’s formal efficacy. In postcolonial fiction, the fissure, or contradiction, in classical Bildung and modernity itself becomes the source of new forms of identity and community. Assia Djebar’s Algerian Quartet explores alternative means of achieving cultural and aesthetic wholeness through new modes of auto/biographical writing. In her nonlinear, polyvocal, and syncopated narratives, we find instead alternatives to conventional Bildung that are more adaptable to non-Western modes of social belonging.
The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexualism: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Einar Wegener’s Man Into Woman
Authors: Caughie Pamela L.
Published: September 2013

In this essay, I argue that Woolf’s fantastic novel, Orlando (1928), is more true to the experience of transsexualism than is the allegedly authentic account provided in Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex (1933), the biography-memoir of Danish artist Einar Wegener, who, as Lili Elbe, can lay claim to the title of the first transsexual. Orlando reconfigures notions not just of gender but of time, history, and the very nature of life-writing itself, producing a new model of life writing that I call a transgenre .
John Schlesinger’s Bildungsfilm: Midnight Cowboy and the Problem of Youth
Authors: Brown Julia Prewitt
Published: September 2013

In making Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger took a minor American novel of existentialist angst and transformed it into a cinematic version of the classic literary genre, or Bildungsroman , in which a young man full of illusions travels from the provinces to the big city. The film possesses formal features that give it a modernist inflection, such as the montage of images in the modern city, but from a structural, moral, and psychological point of view, Midnight Cowboy is a Bildungsfilm –a perfect marriage of nineteenth-century themes and twentieth-century techniques.
Vicariates of the Eye: Blindness, Sense Substitution, and Writing Devices in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Olsén Jan Eric
Published: September 2013

This essay asks how teachers and pedagogues of the blind regarded the relation between blindness and sense substitution in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The essay provides an account of the concept of Sinnesvikariat and compares its inner sensorial implications with the adaptation of blindness to new, external forms of sense compensation.
Aesthetic Blindness: Symbolism, Realism, and Reality
Authors: Bolt David
Published: September 2013

As a representation of blindness, Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Blind is highly problematic and becomes more so if we fail to engage with its social implications. This essay teases out these issues, compares their representation with contemporaneous works of realism, and illustrates the play’s twenty-first-century relevance on the basis of visually impaired embodiment.
Blinding the Screen: Visualizing Disability in Le scaphandre et le papillon
Authors: Jewell Tess
Published: September 2013

This essay examines how the first-person perspective employed in Julian Schnabel’s Le scaphandre et le papillon draws on previous cinematic traditions to configure blindness for a sighted audience. Engaging with common metaphors of disability, the essay explores whether this film’s cinematic representation of blindness opens new possibilities for conceptualizing visual impairment.
Gone, Missing
Authors: Steeves H. Peter
Published: September 2013

Seeing and blindness are not true opposites, but rather constitute a complex whole that allows the world to appear. By means of the scotoma, this essay takes up the project of a phenomenological-aesthetic description of the role that blindness plays in seeing and, more specifically, in the seeing of paintings.
Blindness and Intimacy in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
Authors: Linett Maren
Published: September 2013

This essay traces an association between blindness and intimacy in J.M. Synge’s The Well of the Saints , Florence Barclay’s The Rosary , and D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man,” suggesting that the association participates in an early twentieth-century devaluation of vision and stems from beliefs about knowledge and communication.
The Blind Bard, According to John Milton and His Contemporaries
Authors: Duran Angelica
Published: September 2013

This essay approaches Milton’s representation of the “blind bard” within the most personal literary mode of lyric (specifically, three sonnets) and through the figuration of blindness by his contemporary detractors in the service of suggesting how key terms of disability studies merge with literary elements, especially imagery and authorship.
Where Blindness is Not (?) a Disability: Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn Trilogy
Authors: Newman-Stille Derek
Published: September 2013

Perhaps more than realism, fantasy provides an opportunity to examine how ideas of bodily normalcy dominate and restrict our society. Fantasy can explore the cultural understanding and construction of blindness as a disability. Although blindness is often constructed as a disability, Alison Sinclair creates a world in which blindness is normative.
“Looking on darkness, which the blind do see”: Blindness, Empathy, and Feeling Seeing
Authors: Paterson Mark
Published: September 2013

There is a critical concern with the underlying fascination by the sighted with what the blind “see.” The idea of empathic vision, or “feeling seeing,” reveals an allied inquisitiveness concerning what the blind feel, which this essay pursues through a series of authorial voices, persistent myths, and tropes.
Animal’s Eyes: Spectacular Invisibility and the Terms of Recognition in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
Authors: Mahlstedt Andrew
Published: September 2013

Dominant narratives of poverty in the global south exacerbate the invisibility of the marginalized poor, blinding observers to all but a spectacle of abject destitution. Paying attention to narrative and the question of visibility in the context of recent globalization, this essay considers how Animal’s People represents disempowerment without disempowering.
Ireland’s Decade of Commemorations: A Roundtable
Authors: Bryan Dominic , Cronin Mike , O’Toole Tina , Pennell Catriona
Published: September 2013

Beginning with last year’s centennial of the passage of the Third Home Rule Bill, Ireland commenced an extraordinary “Decade of Commemorations,” during which the entire island will recall the anniversaries of crucial historic events: the Dublin Lock-out, the Easter Rising, the “Ulster Sacrifice” of the Somme, Partition, and the Irish Civil War, to name a few. The high-profile public history that will be crafted to mark these events is likely to set the received narrative of the events for another century—and, in turn, will enter the interdisciplinary intellectual project of Irish Studies itself. With the special assistance of Dr. Mike Cronin, New Hibernia Review gathered four scholars (two historians, a literary scholar, and a social anthropologist) to discuss the implications, opportunities, and perils of the Decade of Commemorations. They conducted their discussion by e-mail over the summer of 2013.