254 research outputs found
NABOKOV’S CODE IN THE EARLY WORKS BY L. ULITSKAYA: LITERARY CRITICISM AND TRANSLATION ASPECTS
Full text linkIn modern criticism, V. Nabokov is revered as one of postmodernism “godfathers”. In the texts of a number of iconic contemporary writers (from A. Bitov up to O. Slavnikova and L. Ulitskaya) the influence of “Lolita” author’s creative works is highly significant. L. Ulitskaya never attributed herself to the postmodernist trend; on the contrary, she insisted that aesthetics under the sign “post” is becoming obsolete. Such experience of the author’s self-identification beyond the post-modernism’s aesthetics is worth to the literature at the turn of the 20th century. Ulitskaya point out – V. Nabokov’s prose, in her comprehension, is an ideal one, an appeal to the writer’s image and to his characters proves the scale of an individual artistic concept. The problem of intertextuality links between Ulitskaya’s works and Nabokov’s prose has been addressed by the critics. Among others, the attention has been paid to the tale “Sonechka” [1] and such stories as “Bron’ka” and “Golubchik” (eng. – “Dear Fellow”) [2], thought the earlier texts of the modern author as a single metatext where Nabokov’s influence can be identified at the level of literary devices, images and author’s philosophy have not been considered under this context. In Ulitskaya’s Hall of Fame of the Russian literary geniuses the name of Nabokov comes right after Pushkin. In the collection “The Holy Garbage” Ulitskaya highlights the key points in a perfectly precise way: “Nabokov… has set the national literature free from that typical flavor of unhealthy religiousness, groundless messiahship, hysteria-accented social worries, feeling of a permanent guilt mixed with teach-shadowing and created almost a crystal-clear, sheer “higher” literature with a non-traditional degree of the author’s estrangement from the text” [3]. Thus, the most crucial part among the writer’s literary heritage is the didactics poverty, estranged attitude towards his characters and a special status of the artistic word, the rhythm and melody of which discover new possibilities of the modern literature and express those previously unnamed things
Guest editorial (Special issue on Performance 2015)
No full textThis special issue of Performance Evaluation contains the proceedings of the Performance 2015 conference, held in Sydney, Australia on October 19–21, 2015. Performance is the flagship conference of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis. [..
Approximation Algorithms for Data Placement on Parallel Disks
Full text linkWe study an optimization problem that arises in the context of data placement in multimedia storage systems. We are given a collection of M multimedia data objects that need to be assigned to a storage system consisting of N disks d1 ; d2 :::; dN . We are also given sets U1 ; U2 ; :::; UM such that U i is the set of clients requesting the ith data object. Each disk d j is characterized by two parameters, namely, its storage capacity C j which indicates the maximum number of data objects that may be assigned to it, and a load capacity L j which indicates the maximum number of clients that it can serve. The goal is to find a placement of data objects on disks and an assignment of clients to disks so as to maximize the total number of clients served, subject to the capacity constraints of the storage system. We study this data placement problem for two natural classes of storage systems, namely, homogeneous and uniform ratio. Our first main result is a tight upper and lower bound on t..
Exploring the profit-reliability trade-off in Amazon's spot instance market: A better pricing mechanism
No full textUse of analytical performance models for system sizing and resource allocation in interactive video-on-demand systems employing data sharing techniques
Full text linkBuffer and I/O resource pre-allocation for implementing batching and buffering techniques for Video-on-Demand systems
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