The Master's Voice: Authenticity,Nostalgia, and the Refusal of Irony in Postsocialist Hungary

In 2000, Benedek Uhrin—an elderly man with no apparent musical talent—became an internet phenomenon and later one of the unlikely hit performances at the yearly summer music festival in Hungary. Although local commentators argued that his popularity with youth audiences derived from his kitsch appeal, this article argues to the contrary. Uhrin rose to fame because his performance enabled his audience to refuse irony as rhetorical tool, ethical stance, and reading practice in postsocialist mass culture. Inspiring nostalgia rather than mockery, his much-vaunted sincerity offered an alternative to crises of authenticity created by postsocialism.     

穿越时空的诱惑——《道林·格雷的画像》中亨利爵士的原型解读

亨利爵士在道林·格雷重新认识自我并陷入堕落的过程中可谓“功不可没”，他凭借三寸不烂之舌处处兜售他那套魔鬼式的享乐哲学，最终间接促成了道林堕落、杀人乃至自杀的悲剧。本文试图运用弗莱的神话——原型批评理论来解读亨利勋爵，并指出他实际上集伊甸园的蛇和王尔德本人为一体。     

Inverse regression estimation for censored data

An inverse regression methodology for assessing predictor performance in the censored data setup is developed along with inference procedures and a computational algorithm. The technique developed here allows for conditioning on the unobserved failure time along with a weighting mechanism that accounts for the censoring. The implementation is nonparametric and computationally fast. This provides an efficient methodological tool that can be used especially in cases where the usual modeling assumptions are not applicable to the data under consideration. It can also be a good diagnostic tool that can be used in the model selection process. We have provided theoretical justification of consistency and asymptotic normality of the methodology. Simulation studies and two data analyses are provided to illustrate the practical utility of the procedure.