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Cragin Watershed Protection Project Cave and Karst Survey, 2015
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, GeoCorps America Program Cragin Watershed Protection Project, Cave and Karst Survey, 2015 BY Kyle Rowinski and Joseph Sadorski Project Mentors: Polly Haessig Carl Beyehelm Open Access - Permission by Author(s) See Extended description for more information
The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
Get PDF"""The Assembled Body: Anatomical Enumeration and Embodiment in Anglo-Saxon Devotional Texts"" argues that Anglo-Saxon Christians viewed the material body as a potent site for spiritual transformation. This notion finds its fullest expression in the rhetorical scheme of anatomical enumeration which appears across a diverse collection of Old English and Anglo-Latin devotional forms that range from the seventh to eleventh century, such as anonymous personal protective charms and prayers, confessional formulae, monastic execrations, scientific writing and diagrams produced Byrhtferth, as well as a number of Ælfric of Eynsham's vernacular homilies. This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors employed such enumerative anatomical catalogs to highlight the vibrancy of the flesh at moments spiritual uncertainty. Casting the material body as an assemblage of agents, this rhetorical disarticulation of the flesh enables readers to envision the realignment and reintegration of their disordered and disobedient limbs into the unity of Christ's spiritual body."Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Kyle Williams, accepted the attached license on 2018-03-20 at 11:29.The student, Kyle Williams, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-03-20 at 11:41.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-03-30 at 15:42.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12078 on 2018-08-31 at 17:25:34Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:46:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Sightfulness
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references.Architecture has historically been situated within the world of mixed reality. Brunelleschi's Baptistery in Florence introduced illusory space inserting depth into a two-dimensional plane in the fifteenth century. Centuries later, the Bauhaus challenged the hegemony of perspectival space in favor of axonometric projection, subverting the perceived experience of architecture for its formal attributes. Today our perception of the world is mediated by social media, photo manipulation software, and screen resolution. These technologies conspire not for a fidelity to reality but to promote social and political agendas-truth is not truth. Conversely, rapid improvements in camera technology attempts an objective unification of what qualifies as "clear" and "crisp" photography to document the world while counter-cultural technologies, including hallucinogenic drugs, seek clarification of a different kind. Sightfulness is a guided trip through media phase changes. It fluidly moves between photo realistic representations of common elements in space to impossible infinite multiplications, inversions, distortions and moments of pure abstraction. It leverages advances in computational software that allow a blurring between the virtual and the real. It disorients the viewer through unpredictable transitions, destabilizing their conception of the world that they are inhabiting.by Kyle Branchesi.S.M.S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architectur
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“’A Walking Shadow’: Life as a Reader and Author of Neil Gaiman.”
Get PDFThis chapter concludes the volume proper with a personal anecdote from noted comics scholar Joe Sutliff Sanders. Sutliff Sanders examines the contents of the book against a personal experience he had with the book American Gods and his own work with Gaiman over time. He concludes by examining the contents of the book commenting on the importance of reading and rereading Gaiman with an eye towards further liminal interpretations echoing the introduction
The phonology of the initial state of L3 acquisition
No full textThe present dissertation examined the initial state of L3 phonology in naive speakers of French and German who were Spanish-English bilinguals. The present work analyzed perception (Chapter 3), production (Chapter 4) and the perception production interface (Chapter 5). The results revealed that these bilinguals are influenced by both of their known languages in both perception and production. Additionally, there is evidence that L3 perception and production are differently impacted by their known languages. The results provide important counterevidence for L3 models such as the Typolgocial Primacy Model (Rothman, 2010) or the L2 Status Factor (Bardel & Falk, 2007), which predict that whole-language influence occurs. The results are best explained by the Linguistic Proximity Model (Westergaard et al., 2017), but were not necessarily predicted by it. As a result, this work serves as an example of the necessity for a future model of L3 phonology, which takes into account language typology, order of acquisition, segmental acoustics and explores future directions to explain the variability observed in the present work.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
Outer spaces: provincialism and the novel in the British imperial century
No full textThis dissertation constructs a new literary history of the British Empire by showing how geography underpins novelistic form in the long nineteenth century. “Outer Spaces” claims that the nineteenth-century British provincial novel’s representations of distantly administered rural geographies create the formal foundations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century empire fiction’s conceptualizations of colonial space. While work on empire has grown increasingly mainstream in Victorian studies, it still too often conceives of the literature of imperialism as separate from the field’s domestic core. My project challenges this division. In doing so, it reveals that the geographic form of novelistic narrative ties together the outlying precincts of both metropole and periphery. Engaging with the rich critical traditions that view novelistic form as conditioned by geography as well as history, my project raises the visibility of obscured, outlying spaces in a traditional corpus and ties them together by revealing how the domestic roots of British imperialism condition the very literary structures through which the Victorians would come to know the empire. In charting a new literary history of British imperialism from the decades preceding the Victorian age through to modernism, I divide my project into two parts, following a cultural shift through the project’s corpus from direct administrative control (Part I) to ecological transformation and resource extraction (Part II) as the primary mode of overseeing marginalized spaces and their populations. In addition to complicating extant histories of New Imperialism and Britain’s “Scramble for Africa,” I argue that sovereignty and the environment are inextricably linked in the literary history of the British Empire’s territorial frontiers. As I develop this claim across the project, I concurrently trace how the geographic structuring of the novel in these outlying spaces conditions the possibilities for colonial discourse. As the project moves to the threshold of the postcolonial era, I demonstrate how the long nineteenth-century novel’s spatial formalism created the imaginative conditions for early, land-focused resistances to colonial power. Joining postcolonial and environmental concerns, I discuss border crossings in Walter Scott and Rudyard Kipling; novelistic cartography in Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard; ports in George Eliot and Joseph Conrad; and agrarian plains in Thomas Hardy and Olive Schreiner. In their work to connect literary geography with coloniality, these novels, I argue, knit together the human, cultural, and environmental scales of British imperialism.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kyle McAule
Spontaneous music : the first generation British free improvisers
No full textThe British free improvisation scene originated in London and Sheffield during the
mid 1960s. In groups such as AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Joseph
Holbrooke, a distinctive and ambitious musicality developed that still occupies most
of its protagonists forty years later.
Marked stylistic contrasts developed within the genre, notably the `atomistic' and
`laminar' methods of interaction. Nonetheless, a consistency of principle and practice
was also apparent that defined British free improvisation as unique. In some respects
the genre resembled its German, Dutch and American counterparts, and also the jazz
and classical avant-gardes that had inspired them. Both conceptually and practically,
however, clear differences remained.
The British free improvisers refined a method and an aesthetic of musical creativity,
which suggested an intimate perspective and a detailed analysis of that which we
accept as `music'. Its techniques and results were unconventional, but remained
consistent with music's defining concepts and experiences. As such, British free
improvisation suggested a more inclusive model of musicality than is common, and
implied a broad critique of the cultural values that define `music' at all. Though the
free improvisers themselves did not explicitly state the connection, their work may be
viewed in the context of Deconstruction: the post-structuralist analytical strategy
associated with philosopher Jacques Derrida.
British free improvisation culminated from innovations within the twentieth century
avant-garde. Referencing styles such as atonality and free jazz, it challenged the
aesthetic, technical and hierarchical standards of Western tradition in a form that was
striking and extreme, but also of logical development and focus. Free improvisation
owed explicit debt to a variety of other musics; its most singular achievement
however, was the redefinition of `rhythm' by which it disguised this fact.
The music of the first generation British free improvisers is reliant upon precise
conceptual and practical execution. But though this has enabled the genre to be
musically innovative, in the long term it has also become a logical problem. With
British free improvisation as its subject, the scrutiny of Deconstruction reveals
significant discrepancies between what `free improvisation' implies and what it
actually represents
Preliminaries to watershed instrumentation system design
No full textThe author has granted permission for their work to be available to the general public.Watershed instrumentation system design consists of identifying the locations and types of stream gauges, rain gauges, and other instruments needed for collection of input data for hydrological models, such that the models are useful in achieving objectives. The design is based on assessing the impact of various alternatives on the uncertainty in the model output. This assessment can occur only if certain preliminaries are adequately established: model selection, spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and the uncertainty analysis method. In this dissertation, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is selected as most appropriate for the site and objectives of concern, and applied to the Little Washita River Experimental Watershed (LWREW) in Oklahoma, and subwatershed I of the Little River Experimental Watershed (LREWswI) in Georgia. For spatial resolution, SWAT subbasin delineation is to most nearly match that of the field, and the number of hydrologic response units (HRUs) aggregated to 102 for LREWswI provides nearly identical results to those of an unwieldy 10,700 HRUs, the finest resolution possible. For temporal resolution, a novel event-adaptive time series may prevent the underestimation of event flow (as shown by the 11% increase and better matching of peaks for LREWswI), and provide better estimates of parameters, including the baseflow recession constant for LWREW. For uncertainty analysis applied to a synthetic LREWswI, a novel likelihood function estimates water budget components with an average error of 1.2%, while a conventional likelihood function leads to an average error of 13.3%. Also, the use of storm volume uncertainty parameters are to be included in the likelihood function if both the parameters and the flow quantities are to be estimated unbiasedly. These preliminaries help establish the foundation for watershed instrumentation system design.Civil and Environmental Engineerin
Writing the Aerodynamics of Hunger
No full textabstract: Raised on card-catalogues, then expected to save the world with microchips, there is a generation that was left straddling two millennia. Often lumped in with the X’ers or Millennials, this generation didn’t grow up with or without technology, technology grew up with them. The poems in The Aerodynamics of Hunger strike a balance between the easy-going materialism of the 90’s and our current culture of instant gratification, between the tendency to treat science like a God and prescribe God like science. These poems see straight through the world of hypersex and click-bait, yet they admit their complicity in its creation and distribution. They watch the world become connected on a new level, but testify to the resulting struggle of place one’s self in relation to something, anything. The burden is great, but journeying through it is an undeniable pleasure.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Creative Writing 201
Homeric Correspondences and Irish Nationalism in Joyce's "Cyclops"
No full textabstract: James Joyce’s novel Ulysses has been analyzed extensively for decades, and the volume of analyses which are still being produced today indicates that we still haven’t scratched the surface of fully understanding all of the novel’s mysteries. This project contributes to these efforts by taking a deeper look into two of the novel’s central aspects, its numerous correspondences to Homer’s The Odyssey and its criticism and subversion of traditional Irish values, and examining how they may be connected to one another. Looking specifically at the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses, which is commonly accepted as Joyce’s most biting criticism of extreme Irish nationalism in the novel, the specific correspondences to The Odyssey with regard to the episode’s structure, plot, characters, and themes are identified. Through an analysis of how these correspondences are presented in the episode, critical divergences in how the two works portray their characters and common themes are revealed. The results of this analysis emphasize the importance of looking at Joyce’s novel as a modernist take on the traditional Homeric epic, suggesting that it is largely through these divergences that Joyce elucidates much of the underlying meaning of the episode. The subversion of Homeric themes and characters is shown to be closely connected with the subversion of Irish cultural ideals, further driving Joyce’s criticism of these ideals as outmoded. The perspective gained by analyzing the episode in this context also has quite a bit of relevance to some of the more troubling aspects of present-day western society, supporting the persistent importance of Joyce’s novel as a critical examination of humanity as a whole
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