Papers by William Christie
Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Jan 26, 2012
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014
Literary Lives Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-71486-7 hardcover Series Standing Order ISBN ... more Literary Lives Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-71486-7 hardcover Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-80334-9 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order.
Australian Humanities Review
I am concerned to make it really a university, something that is more than a collocation of speci... more I am concerned to make it really a university, something that is more than a collocation of specialist departments-to make it a centre of human consciousness: perception, knowledge, judgment and responsibility. And perhaps I have sufficiently indicated on what lines I would justify my seeing the centre of a university in a vital English School… I will only say that the academic is the enemy and that the academic can be beaten, as we who ran Scrutiny for twenty years proved. We were-and we knew we were-Cambridge-the essential Cambridge in spite of Cambridge.
Arts the Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Jan 25, 2012
Arts the Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Jan 25, 2012
Readers may recognise my title as the battlecry of an anonymous member of the audience at the ope... more Readers may recognise my title as the battlecry of an anonymous member of the audience at the opening of the Scottish playwright John Home's Douglas in Edinburgh in 1757. Since the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, expressions of Scottish nationalism more often than not have taken a cultural form. What is ironic, however, is that Home's play is throughout an imitation of Shakespearean tragedy and Home himself became known as 'the Scottish Shakespeare'. Home's brief triumph, in other words, only confirmed the cultural presence, the priority and influence, of Shakespeare. Yet I was at pains in my last essay in this series precisely to distinguish Shakespeare's plays from influential texts like Robinson Crusoe. I Shakespeare's characters, I suggested, were too complex to enter culture as myths or archetypes, and tempted psychoanalysis rather than imitation. Moreover, Tales from Shakespeare aside, the stories of the plays are rarely original and would hardly be thought worth preserving for their own sake. I identified in Shakespearean drama-in its characterization; in its plot or lack of plot; in the pervasive poetry that makes speech so much more resonant than what is said-what I called a heterogeneity that militates against the mythic'. Shakespeare's stories carry with them the burden of their dramatic and poetic instantiation, as somehow inseparable from them. It is for this reason that, as I went on to say, 'all the energy has gone into rereading and restaging rather than reincarnation and revision'. A Falstaff or a Hamlet can be revived and reinterpreted,
The Gnostic World, 2018
The objective of the proposed work is to detect and process multispectral remote sensed images an... more The objective of the proposed work is to detect and process multispectral remote sensed images and classify them effectively using an ensemble classifier over a region. Thus, analyzing the changes present in that region over a period of time using machine learning methods. (As the traditional methods like surveying is inefficient in analyzing the difficult terrains such as forest cover). The ensemble classifier which is proposed in this work is that of a decision tree or E-Tree (Ensemble Tree classifier), effectively handles large volumes of data. It constantly updates the new classifier, thereby discarding the old ones. First, classification of forest areas has been proposed. A region of interest is selected and processed resulting in data sets to form a dictionary. The dictionary of data sets is interactively made to learn at classifier (Decision E-Tree) for further processing. The accuracy for the proposed classifier needs to be analyzed and compared with the other commonly used classifiers such as SVM, Subspace Discriminant etc. The performance of classifier is analyzed by metrics such as Accuracy, Scatter Plot, Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Training of different data sets at different locations of forest areas across the globe has to be carried out, for further increase in the accuracy of the classifier. Test images over different periods of time is given as input to the classifier, a Region of Interest is selected and it is predicted based on the trained classifier and the variations in the landscapes is efficiently detected.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature, 2019
European Romantic Review, 2016
3-Heptafluoropropane (R227ea) is a good refrigerant that reduces greenhouse effects and ozone dep... more 3-Heptafluoropropane (R227ea) is a good refrigerant that reduces greenhouse effects and ozone depletion. In practical applications, we usually have to know the compressed liquid densities at different temperatures and pressures. However, the measurement requires a series of complex apparatus and operations, wasting too much manpower and resources. To solve these problems, here, Song and Mason equation, support vector machine (SVM), and artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used to develop theoretical and machine learning models, respectively, in order to predict the compressed liquid densities of R227ea with only the inputs of temperatures and pressures. Results show that compared with the Song and Mason equation, appropriate machine learning models trained with precise experimental samples have better predicted results, with lower root mean square errors (RMSEs) (e.g., the RMSE of the SVM trained with data provided by Fedele et al. [1] is 0.11, while the RMSE of the Song and Mason equation is 196.26). Compared to advanced conventional measurements, knowledge-based machine learning models are proved to be more time-saving and user-friendly.
Studies in Romanticism, 2003
European Romantic Review, 2015
Sydney Studies in English, 2008
This article outlines and develops the Romantic understanding of Shakespeare's King Lear, loo... more This article outlines and develops the Romantic understanding of Shakespeare's King Lear, looking at the variety and virtuosity of language in the play and at the way its language tends towards both superflux and its opposite, silence. Opening with the Romantic attempt to reclaim the play from its attenuated version on the eighteenth-century stage and to exalt it as the consummation of the Shakespeare canon, the article uses Romantic criticism to recover the existential provocation represented by the play in its attempts to take the measure of an equivocal human nature.
Sydney Studies in English, 2015
This article offers a reading of Shakespeare’s Richard III through the lens of what Al Pacino cal... more This article offers a reading of Shakespeare’s Richard III through the lens of what Al Pacino calls his ‘doco-drama type thing’, Looking for Richard, which examines (amongst other things) the meaning and value of Shakespeare’s poetic drama over time, national traditions of actors and acting, and the protracted battle between scholarship and the theatre for authority over the Shakespearean inheritance. Using ideas of ‘the histrionic’ and focusing on the centrality of the protagonists and their preoccupation with acting, the article discusses ways in which Richard III and Looking for Richard can be seen to reflect and illuminate each other.
Sydney Studies in English, Oct 9, 2008
cellent book is by far the best study of the Conversation poems available. Harper's essay, republ... more cellent book is by far the best study of the Conversation poems available. Harper's essay, republished in his Spirit of Delight (1928), is readily available in M. H. Abrams (ed.), English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1960). 2 English Romantic Poets, p. 144. he. He almost believes it. And when he is asked, 'What trick, what device', etc. he doesn't answer pat. Richardson paused a long time for Falstaff to corne out of his imagination role (seeing himself fighting 4-7-11 men in buckram suits) and think up some excuse for himself. Falstaff almost has to slough off this role, then think, before saying, 'By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye'.
Arts the Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Jan 26, 2012
One bruised high summer's afternoon two tempests in which the Word was not, yet seemed to be, rup... more One bruised high summer's afternoon two tempests in which the Word was not, yet seemed to be, ruptured the customary drain and dressing of encrusted sores on the shattered limbs of veterans crammed into wards like banacks, built in a time of battle long before.
Sydney Studies in English, Oct 28, 2009
Sydney Studies in English, Oct 13, 2008
Sydney Studies in English, Oct 15, 2008
Prose Studies, 1996
... to characterize that figuration is in terms of the "two texts" that Roland Barthes ... more ... to characterize that figuration is in terms of the "two texts" that Roland Barthes distinguishes in ... creating another charmed circle of his own, a paradox to which I will return. ... intellectually generous and where he is disputatious, his disputes are invariably "amicable disputes" - with ...
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