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Measurements of jet substructure in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at TeV with ALICE
No full textJet substructure observables are powerful tools to search for new physics and test theoretical descriptions of perturbative and non-perturbative processes in QCD. In heavy-ion collisions, jet substructure observables are used to elucidate the structure and dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma. One substructure observable is jet mass, which probes the virtuality of hard-scattered partons and their modified fragmentation. Additionally, generalized jet angularities allow differential measurements of the jet shower and its modification, as two parameters independently vary the weight of the jet constituents’ relative angle and transverse momentum. Previous measurements of the jet mass and jet angularities show conflicting deviations when compared with models. This thesis presents new measurements of the jet mass and jet angularities to resolve this conflict, using charged-particle tracks in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at TeV and jet resolution parameters and . The results from this work are compared to ALICE measurements of heavy-flavor jets, which provide a high-powered probe of perturbative QCD at low transverse momentum. Jet angularities in jets containing a charm meson are compared to the inclusive measurements of this thesis, revealing a significant narrowing due to the QCD dead cone modifying jet fragmentation. Jet angularity results are also compared to QCD predictions using both folding and shape function corrections for nonperturbative effects. Jet grooming can be used to isolate specific splittings inside the jet fragmentation history, and ALICE measurements of the groomed-jet splitting angle and momentum fraction with soft drop and dynamical grooming are also compared to QCD predictions to test parton branching. The high-precision tracking system of ALICE enables these measurements over a broad range in transverse momentum, with a low-transverse momentum reach that is unique at the LHC
The "Bad Boy of Music" in Paris: George Antheil's Violin Sonatas
No full textabstract: An integral part of the avant-garde movement in 1920s Paris, the American composer George Antheil collaborated with writers Ezra Pound and James Joyce, violinist Olga Rudge, and befriended the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and many others. In Paris, Antheil found great success as the provocateur of riots and scandal at his concerts, with a purposefully controversial compositional style. This document explores, in detail, his three violin sonatas composed between 1923 and 1924 at the behest of Ezra Pound for his violinist friend Rudge. The violin sonatas provide a fascinating perspective on Antheil's musical and personal life during his first years in Paris. The historical and personal contexts of the sonatas are examined, in addition to their musical repercussions for Antheil's compositional style. This document relies primarily on unpublished letters, writings and other memorabilia from collections held at The Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, and Indiana University. Antheil's published scores and autobiography, Linda Whitesitt's biography of Antheil and other literature pertaining to the period and person are also consulted. While a fair amount has been written on Antheil's more famous work Ballet Mécanique, which stylistically followed the violin sonatas, the lesser-known sonatas have received minimal attention or exploration. This document places these three works into their rightful context, as cornerstones of Antheil's musical style during his most avant-garde years in Paris.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Music 201
Lessons from Lesser Kings: Irony and Kingship in Books IV and V of Bede’s \u3ci\u3eEcclesiastical History\u3c/i\u3e
No full textBede, the early eighth-century monastic author, discusses many kings as well as bishops in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In this History, Bede assumed his earlier delineation of Christian kingship in his commentary On Ezra and Nehemiah: that a Christian king ought to protect and promote the church and be deferential with the clergy as he cooperates with them to regulate the Christian people. However, Bede’s claim in Books IV and V of his History that the age of Bishop Theodore was “the happiest time for the English people” because, in part, they benefitted from “the most powerful Christian kings,” is startling, since the kings discussed do not measure up to Bede’s claim. After clarifying Christian kingship according to Bede and then examining Bede’s discussion of each king in Books IV and V, this article’s author draws on the scholarship of N.J. Higham, Claire Stancliffe, and Walter Goffart to offer irony as the key for understanding Bede’s claim. Thus, Bede was being ruefully ironic about the age of Theodore: if only this happiest of ages had enjoyed the benefit of powerful Christian kingship! The best that Bede would say about the “most powerful kings” of the age was that they retired from their kingship
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Catastrophes of Redemption: Modernism and Fascism in Norway
No full textThis study examines selections from the work of three modernist writers who also supported Norwegian fascism and the Nazi occupation of Norway: Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize; Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), Norway's major modernist poet; and Åsmund Sveen (1910-1963), a fascinating but forgotten expressionist figure. In literary studies, the connection between fascism and modernism is often associated with writers such as Ezra Pound or Filippo Marinetti. I look to a new national context and some less familiar figures to think through this international issue. Employing critical models from both literary and historical scholarship in modernist and fascist studies, I examine the unique and troubling intersection of aesthetics and politics presented by each figure. After establishing a conceptual framework in the first chapter, "Unsettling Modernity," I devote a separate chapter to each author. Analyzing both literary publications and lesser-known documents, I describe how Hamsun's early modernist fiction carnivalizes literary realism and bourgeois liberalism; how Sveen's mystical and queer erotic vitalism overlapped with aspects of fascist discourse; and how Jacobsen imagined fascism as way to overcome modernity's culture of nihilism. In various ways, I argue, the intellectual orientation that motivates their turn to fascist utopianism also lies behind their modernist urge to create new anti-bourgeois and anti-realist forms of artistic expression. Each case shows a transition from an aesthetic form of anti-rationalism or anti-nihilism to political form of renewal - a shift from a literary encounter with modernity's scene of chaos and reduction to an ideological fantasy of redemption via fascism. As we know, the sort of redemption that Hamsun, Sveen, and Jacobsen imagined to be embodied in European fascism turned out catastrophically - for their own postwar lives and compromised legacies, but more importantly for the millions of people they never knew who died in the Nazi genocide
Beyond the Echoes: Extending the Framework for Biblical Intertextuality
No full textAlthough the framework for biblical intertextuality currently used by R. B. Hays and his followers has contributed much to our understanding of the role of the OT in the Pauline letters, it does not account fully for the ways in which the OT writings are used. In addition to the explicit citation and the more implicit allusion and echo, this dissertation argues that the framework should be extended to include the use of Scripture as an ideational resource, as well as the use of the Narrative Summary as a literary device.
By revisiting the idea of intertextuality expounded by Kristeva, the hermeneutical framework devised by Schleiermacher, and to a lesser extent borrowing from the ideas of de Saussure, Boyarin and others, a broader model of biblical intertextuality that includes the use of Scripture as an ideational resource is developed. While the analysis of biblical intertextuality under Hays' framework relies on the presence of verbal correspondences in the texts, the proposed approach includes analysing Paul's texts in the light of the ideational resources that his readers who are ingrained in the cultural codes of Scripture would have understood. The method is then demonstrated using Rom 9:1-3, where the wider signification of the OT in Paul's writing has not been sufficiently analysed thus far.
Next, a framework for analysing Paul's use of the Narrative Summary is developed. Comparison is made with a group of writings known as the rewritten Bible, which are found mainly among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Despite certain similarities, there are fundamental differences as well. Applying the developed framework on the analysis of seven specimen texts (Rom 4:1-25; Gal 4:21-31; Rom 9:6-13; 1 Cor 10:1-13; 2 Cor 3:7-18; Rom 9:4-5; Rom 11:1-6), the study reveals that they share substantially the same features, and departures from these are largely accounted for by Paul’s use of the Narrative Summary as a literary device. This shows that the Narrative Summary is a specific intertextual category that deserves to be treated separately
Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the collectors, their activities and motivation in making such presentations.
Using the interests and activities of the Quaker miller and collector Ernest Marsh (1843-1945) as a case study, this thesis explores how in the period 1890-1945 a collector came to be a key agent in the construction and manifestation of taste in British Applied Arts and to a lesser degree in the Fine Arts. Through primary visual and documentary evidence of the Marsh home, and reference to contemporary and later commentaries it considers the relative influences of husband and wife on decorating and furnishing the domestic interior, the evolution of taste, and, for Ernest Marsh, its impact upon his artistic interests within the public arena.
By examination of private papers, metropolitan and provincial art gallery and museum archives it also considers evidence of the inter-relationships between donors and curators, and the mutual advantages and disadvantages accruing to both, particularly focussing on the processes in bringing about changes in individual and institutional collecting policy. Further, by review of records of, in particular, the Contemporary Art Society and the Greenslade archive, it examines the degree to which private benefactors and those in public or semi-public office, acting as fund-raisers and spenders exercise influence through patronage of particular practitioners, choice of works and initiating new designs
Charismata and compassion : Dhinakaran, Charismatic healing and Pastoral Pentecostalism in South India : a practical theological assessment
No full textThis dissertation is a theological assessment of the Jesus Calls divine healing movement as it developed in South India. It analyses the thought of the founder D. G. S.
Dhinakaran, India's pre-eminent healing evangelist and explores its potential and adequacy as a pastoral theology. It draws out Dhinakaran's healing theology and model for ministry that has significantly contributed to Indian mission and attained international recognition. Until now, this movement has received no critical analysis.
The author, a native of South India, as an observer-participant, takes up this task.
The emergence and impact of the modem Pentecostal movement and the `full gospel' with healing as its flagship is discussed. The study highlights lesser-known precursors
and theological roots that give Indian Pentecostalism its distinct identity from the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, USA. It reveals how Charismatic Christianity flourishes due to
its bhakti spirituality, guru leadership, apostolic charismata and practical compassion. The thesis maintains that the dialectic of Pentecostal power and pastoral care is an effective mission strategy and proceeds to demonstrate this in Dhinakaran's ministry.
The research method progressed from a description of Dhinakaran's healing praxis via theological analysis to a critical assessment. It shows some major influences and the
appeal of his prayer movement and argues that the key to its success lies in its highly pragmatic, culturally adaptive and syncretic nature. Three doctrinal concepts that are embodied in Dhinakaran's model are presented: compassion, the wounded healer and healing evangelism, which correlate within a theological apparatus to make
interpretative sense of his praxis resulting in what is termed `Pastoral Pentecostalism'.
The hybridity in Dhinakaran's `miracle healing' is explored within two wider contextual interfaces: the traditional Hindu culture with the shamanic manthiravadi and an imported but adapted version of American faith healing. Here, an easternwestern synthesis is shown to contribute at once to a viable indigenous ministry and to global trends in Charismatic Christianity, allowing each to inform and shape the other. Dhinakaran's distinct prosperity message is located within the Guru movement and assessed against the American health-wealth gospel for pastoral integrity. The thesis advocates a Pastoral Pentecostalism that holds charismata and compassion in creative tension and re-presents Dhinakaran as a significant charismatic healing evangelist
To each according to deeds : divine judgement according to deeds in second temple Judaism and in Paul's letters.
No full textPaul's use of the motif of `judgment according to deeds' corresponds terminologically, rhetorically, and theologically with its use in second temple Judaism. In order to demonstrate this thesis, the author examines the tradition- history of the motif in the Jewish Scriptures, the OT Pseudepigrapha, and the Qum- ran literature. By the beginning of the common era `judgment according to deeds' is a widespread, fundamental theological axiom, applicable to a variety of rhetorical purposes. The motif has an important soteriological function within what is now commonly termed Jewish `covenantal nomism' (not legalism). This judgment does not entail a one-for-one recompense of good or evil deeds, but views works wholistically (i. e., as a whole either good or bad), and thus as revealing one's `way' of life or `heart. ' One's deeds do not earn or merit God's grace and salvation; nevertheless, one's recompense-the blessings or the curses of the covenant-will be congruent with ("according to") this pattern of behavior, since one's works reveal what is hidden in the heart, either loyalty or disloyalty to God and his covenant. Salvation by covenant mercy and judgment according to works are complementary. In both its form and function Paul's use of the motif places him firmly within this same tradition-history. In addition, he maintains the wholistic perspective of deeds common to the Jewish tradition. Although the term `covenantal nomism' is not appropriate for Paul's thought (Christ replaces the Torah as the defining locus of electing grace), the fundamental structure of grace and works, election and obedience, salvation and judgment, remains remarkably similar. In Paul also one is justified by grace and judged according to works, issuing in eternal life or wrath. The juxtaposition of justification and judgment causes Paul no theological tension, because he inherited a way of speaking and thinking about judgment according to deeds which similarly related them without paradox
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