In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing Cavafy's knowledge Arabic, demonstrates affinities solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress witnessed choice...

Abstract This article examines the contributions of Ghulām ʿAlī “Āzād” Bilgrāmī (1704–1786) to our understanding comparative poetics and Arabic in eighteenth-century Hindustan. It attends Azad’s oeuvre through lenses translation, multilingualism, literary science. Philological analysis reveals how Azad establishes analogues across these three languages that attest adaptive capacity poetics. His...

extended abstract 1. introduction the present article is an attempt to analyze the emotional signification of poems; 1) does a poem exert emotional signification by itself just like a text produced within the language network, independent of the poet’s emotional experiences and audience’s comprehension? 2) does it reflect the signification of the poet’s emotions?, or 3) does it find emotional s...

We develop a learning principle and an efficient algorithm for batch learning from logged bandit feedback. This learning setting is ubiquitous in online systems (e.g., ad placement, web search, recommendation), where an algorithm makes a prediction (e.g., ad ranking) for a given input (e.g., query) and observes bandit feedback (e.g., user clicks on presented ads). We first address the counterfa...