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The Sound of Writing
An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace the sound of writing from the beginning of the Western record to poetry written in the last century. This rich series of essays considers the writings of Sappho, Simonides, Aldhem, Marcabru, Dante Alighieri, William Langland, Charles Butler, Tennyson, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot as well as poems and songs in Ancient Greek, Old and Middle English, Italian, Old French, Occitan, and modern English. The book will interest anyone curious about the way sound has been preserved in the past and the kinds of ingenuity that can recover the process of that preservation.Essays focus on questions of language and expression, and each contributor sets out a distinct method for understanding the relationship between sound and writing. Cannon and Justice open the volume with a survey of the various ways sound has been understood as the object of our senses. Each ensuing chapter presents a case study for a sonic phenomenology at a specific time in history. With approaches from a wide variety of disciplines, The Sound of Writing analyzes writing systems and the aural dimensions of literary cultures to reconstruct historical soundscapes in vivid ways.
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THE FUTURE IS IN THEIR CARE: JUSTICE AND THE WASHINGTON CONSTITUTION
American law aspires to uphold justice, liberty, and equality, yet these ideals often remain rhetorical. Appellate judges play a vital role in interpreting the law to realize these promises, especially for historically excluded groups. However, their work exists within a harsh context--law's consequences often involve pain and injustice. Some judges prioritize restraint, citing legal doctrines like stare decisis or separation of powers, while others believe bold action is necessary when the law is clearly unjust. The 2006 Andersen v. King County decision by the Washington Supreme Court is cited as a failure of judicial courage. Upholding Washington's Defense of Marriage Act, the Court legitimized discrimination against same-sex couples by deferring to legislative rationale. Though since overturned, Andersen remains a cautionary example of missed judicial responsibility. Judges must balance restraint with moral clarity, acting boldly when justice demands it. As Justice Montoya-Lewis emphasized, justice must be active and people-focused--not abstract or constrained by past errors.
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Adam Usk's Secret
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of secrets a political man might find safer to keepthe schemes and violence of regime changeUsk tells openly.
Steven Justice sets out to find what it was that Adam Usk wanted to hide. His search takes surprising turns through acts of political violence, persecution, censorship, and, ultimately, literary history. Adam Usk's narrow, eccentric literary genius calls into question some of the most casual and confident assumptions of literary criticism and historiography, making stale rhetorical habits seem new.Adam Usk's Secretconcludes with a sharp challenge to historians over what they think they can know about literatureand to literary scholars over what they think they can know about history.
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Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles?
For all the proud accomplishments of its last decades, the study of premodern Christianity continues to bruise its shins against the problem of \"belief.\" New categorical explanations of religious belief repeatedly and inadvertently prove identical with old explanations; more oddly, so do categorical refusals to explain it. The fallacy lies in thinking that belief can be categorically identified in the first place. But recognition of the fallacy does not leave us stymied. A short theoretical discussion of St. Thomas Aquinas and a longer reading of theLifeof Christina of Markyate suggest how belief may be historically discussed without being unhistorically cartooned.
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Adam Usk's Secret
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of secrets a political man might find safer to keep—the schemes and violence of regime change—Usk tells openly.
Steven Justice sets out to find what it was that Adam Usk wanted to hide. His search takes surprising turns through acts of political violence, persecution, censorship—and, ultimately, literary history. Adam Usk's narrow, eccentric literary genius calls into question some of the most casual and confident assumptions of literary criticism and historiography, making stale rhetorical habits seem new. Adam Usk's Secret concludes with a sharp challenge to historians over what they think they can know about literature and to literary scholars over what they think they can know about history.
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Who Stole Robertson?
I answer the invitation to consider “medieval studies in the twenty-first century” by considering one of its mysteries in the twentieth. Thirty years ago, the work of D. W. Robertson, Jr. (who retired from Princeton in 1980 and died in 1992), polarized the field: it was the stuff of midnight debates and broken friendships; it gave his department a fearsome notoriety; it made and unmade careers. In a celebrated 1987 stocktaking, Robertson was the problem the field could not shake (Patterson 3–9, 26–39). But from this prominence, he did not dwindle; he vanished. Just as medieval literary studies steered hard into the cultural turn, he disappeared from its stage except for straw-man cameos; by 1999, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature could spare no breath to mention him. So who stole Robertson?
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American Sign Language Gesture Recognition using Motion Tracking Gloves in VR
Gesture recognition has become an topic of great interest as it continues to advance the capabilities of human computer interaction. Research has shown that related technologies have the potential to facilitate highly accessible user interfaces, enabling users with various limitations to use different applications in a more intuitive way. This thesis presents a new contribution to this research by introducing a novel approach to performing gesture recognition on American sign language (ASL) hand gestures through virtual reality (VR) using motion tracking gloves. As a proof of concept, an application was developed using this approach which is capable of recognizing 34 ASL hand gestures performed by a user as they navigate a turorial-based environment. This application was evaluated through a user study to determine the effectiveness of the approach and any possible improvements that could be made. The hope is that the approach presented in this thesis could be expanded into a number of different applications aimed at propagating the use of ASL and improving the lives of those who use it regularly.
Dissertation
Grief
In Usk, then, you don’t need prophecy, because history tells you all the future’s secrets you need to know. But then (this is the next turn) it does the job so easily that you don’t need history either: the future, like the present, is so brutal and obvious that it can have no secrets. What is coming is more of the same, plus more hopeful and pointless efforts to avoid it.
The world in Usk’s chronicle does not have a narrative so much as an invariant drive toward ruin. The image of a world tottering, physically unbalanced, is commonplace: Bishop
Book Chapter
Adam Usk’s Secret
At this point, the attempt to track down what thoughts or expectations or knowledge are hidden in Usk’s secret reaches a dead end of sorts: its trail leads to no more than unverifiable guesses about what might have been in his mind. But then this is what a secret by definition is. More to the point, this failure points to its own solution: track the secret all the way to its end, to the intellectual structure that is built around it, reduce it to the trivial alternatives we reached at the end of the last chapter, choose to believe one
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