The Preface as Exegesis

Abstract

The delights in ‘explaining again’ about a creative work can be equal to the delights of actually writing it - a point Winterson only subtly admits to, but which Poe initiated, Greene embraced, Nabokov extemporised upon, and Barth is making a career out of. Exegetic activity provides opportunity for postgraduate writers to ‘speak twice’ about the literary nerves of their work, about the creative mechanisms driving it, and about the personal and cultural orientations that inform and frame and guide it. Current student exegetical activity reinvigorates the territory of the preface - a significant territory of information, perspective and debate.

Numerical Investigation of the Entropy Crisis in Model Glass Formers

“…Interestingly, we have found that our implementation of SSMC is more efficient than the cluster algorithm of Santen and Krauth, although this may indeed be a result of our own inefficient optimization of their technique. Regardless, the similarity in the convergence of the two methods is significant, as the SSMC approach works in arbitrary dimensions, while the method of Santen and Krauth is difficult to generalize, particularly to systems with D > 2 37 . By fitting the diffusion constant of the larger discs to a power law form, D(ρ) ≈ (ρ−ρ c ) γ , Santen and Krauth extract a "glass transition" density of ρ c ≈ 0.805.…”

“…Regardless, the similarity in the convergence of the two methods is significant because the SSMC approach works in arbitrary dimensions, but the method of Santen and Krauth is difficult to generalize, particularly to systems with D > 2. 37 By fitting the diffusion constant of the larger discs to a power law form, D(F) ≈ (F -F c ) γ , Santen and Krauth extract a glass-transition density of F c ≈ 0.805. These diffusion constants are measured by shorttime local Monte Carlo dynamics, which has been shown to yield accurate relaxation times in 2D systems 38 and meaningful quantities in the R-relaxation regime.…”

“A Dense and Maddening Dream”: Horror and Domesticity in the Stories of Amparo Davila

“…The procedure for the analysis of these short stories was carried out through exegesis. This term refers to "a critical explanation of a text" (Krauth, 2002). This concept originally referred to critical interpretation of religious texts but has since been extended to literary work.…”

Writing the exegesis: A space of becoming

“…In research about exegetical writings, there seems to be a discussion surrounding how the original contribution to knowledge is perceived. The research focus either lies on the exegesis that contextualises the student's research and analyses findings and methods in order to create an insightful link between the creative work and the exegesis (Krauth, 2002;Kroll, 1999;Williams, 2016); or the research focus centres on what an exegesis needs to do in order to succeed, get approved by the university system, add unspecified rigour and innovation to the field of creative writing and defend itself in front of the examiner (Bourke & Neilson, 2004;Kroll, 2004a). Unquestionably, these are important factors that deserve the attention of scholars who illuminate the function of exegetical texts, but this division does not allow much space to address the personal aspects of writing an exegesis and how the doctoral student becomes a writer and researcher through this task.…”