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From the Margin a Silent Tick: On the Traces of Performative Judgment in Literary Works
No full textProposes that Hemingway and other writers reveal a self-awareness or anxiety-the performative judgment of the article\u27s title-over possible weaknesses in early drafts, passages that tended to be excised before publication. Focuses, in Hemingway\u27s case, briefly on passages in The Sun Also Rises previously examined by Hannah Sullivan in The Work of Revision. Sullivan, for example, found Hemingway removing some unfocused chattering by Jake Barnes- I don\u27t know why I have put all this down -in favor of a more laconic approach. Magee\u27s other examples include Keats, Eliot, Robert Lowell, and artists in other fields
Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms
No full textOpens with a summary of the novel\u27s publication history and difficulties with censors before moving to a discussion of its dual love and war plotlines. Contends that while both plots deal with social infraction, their moral breeches are not equal. Weinrib explores how the love story\u27s redeemable morality via common law marriage spotlights the war story\u27s subversive depiction of legal but morally reprehensible episodes, including those portraying the senselessness of military rules, manipulation of military codes, and cruelty of the Italian army. Closes with a discussion of the legal and moral implications of Frederic\u27s shooting the sergeant and desertion
Local Ambivalence in the Arabistan-Basra Frontier, 1881-1925
No full textThe historiography of Ottoman-Qajar frontiers emphasizes the European creation and promulgation of border control and ethnonationalism. This article considers the way that border dwellers in the Iran-Iraq frontier greeted border enforcement, nationalism, and racial politics. Despite the zeal with which local elites accepted these European ideas, the Arabs of southwestern Iran paid little attention to the policies emanating from Tehran. Europeans, in fact, noted their disinterest and argued that the concept of nationalism, borders, and race did not carry potency in Arabistan, Iran\u27s southwestern frontier. Although historians emphasize the birth of nation-states and the decline of empires in the Middle East at turn of the twentieth century, this article considers the ambivalence with which communities in an oil-rich frontier greeted the new ideological constructions of race and borders
Designing for Disability: Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games
No full textThis project evaluates the current state accessibility of video games, specifically in terms of designing for disability. We evaluate 50 games chosen for their sales data, critical reception, awards won, and other criteria to examine the widest possible sample of the most prominent games released in 2019. This approach to selecting games allows for identifying design trends as they emerge from the most widely played or influential games. The results highlight design pitfalls and innovations regarding accessibility in four key areas: auditory, visual, motor, and difficulty. As a feed-forward project, the aim is not simply to catalog what games include which accessibility features, a nearly impossible feat considering how varied the design features are, depending on the game. This report also attempts to point to future directions for how games can continue to innovate in accessibility
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Examining Class Distinctions in a J.C. Leyendecker Arrow Collar Ad
No full textThis paper examines a 1923 Arrow collar and shirt ad titled The Dancing Couple by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) to determine how it functions as a lifestyle ad, specifically focusing on how upper-class life is portrayed, how these visual elements interact with other aspects of American society in the 1920s, and how they help reinforce systems of power present in visual media. Leyendecker’s Arrow ads were enormously successful, solidifying the Arrow brand to be synonymous with class, making them particularly fruitful advertisements to study. Using psychologyand reception theory to examine visual signs derived from fine art and a sociological lens regarding contextual historical analysis, this paper argues that the composition, style, and subject matter of The Dancing Couple reveal the complex interplay of class structure in post-World War I America regarding art collection, clothing, gender, race, appearance, dancing, and film. Its portrayal of class relations regarding art is in its imitation of Impressionism’s style and through the history of poster art. The Dancing Couple illustrates haute couture while also evoking the democratization of clothing,especially regarding the Arrow collars that it advertises. Both the man and woman in the illustration show idealized body types corresponding to gender ideals and gender roles and their white skin affords them privileges in American society, especially in the era of increased immigration, popularity of eugenics, and Neoclassical idealism. The subject of the couple dancing evokes high society events, but also the dance craze that began in working-class dance halls and transformed American society. Lastly, the stylistic lighting evokes the new film industry which promoted and elevated its movie stars and shared their successes with the middle- and low-class movie-goers whomade the industry successful
Inefficient attentional control explains verbal memory deficits among military veterans with posttraumatic reexperiencing symptoms
Get PDFAmong individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), verbal learning and memory are areas of weakness compared with other cognitive domains (e.g., visuospatial memory). In this study, previously deployed military veterans completed clinical assessments of word memory and vocabulary (n = 243) and a laboratory task measuring encoding, free recall, repetition priming, and recognition of words (n = 147). Impaired verbal memory was selectively related to reexperiencing symptoms of PTSD but was not associated with other symptom groupings or blast-induced traumatic brain injury. Implicit priming of response times following word repetition was also unrelated to clinical symptoms. Instead, slowed response times during encoding explained associations between reexperiencing and memory performance. These findings are consistent with alterations in attentional control explaining PTSD-related verbal-memory deficits. Such findings have implications for understanding trauma-focused psychotherapy and recovery, which may depend on efficient attentional processing of words to alter posttraumatic reexperiencing symptoms
