The Master's Voice: A Close Reading of James

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 1251-1258
Author(s):  
James Curley-Egan
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Reading To Read ◽  
To Come

I find myself returning to the theme of reading against noise and reimagining it as something more like reading up against noise, in which noise is a foe or fiend, something one is up against: not only a challenge, close and insistent, that presents itself whenever one takes up a text (the literal noise that invades one's chair or couch, the ads in the margins of an e-book or a Web page, the wandering thoughts or obligations that draw one away), but also a challenge that is spatially there—up against one's ears and body, encroaching on the very space of one's reading. To read, in this sense, is thus inevitably to come up against noise, to attempt to overcome it–and yet to keep it, as part of the very act of reading, within reach.

scholarly journals A Sign of Things to Come: Predicting the Perception of Above-the-Fold Time in Web Browsing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Hamed Z. Jahromi ◽  
Declan Delaney ◽  
Andrew Hines
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
The State ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Web Page ◽  
To Come ◽  
Web Quality ◽  
The Web

Content is a key influencing factor in Web Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation. A web user’s satisfaction can be influenced by how long it takes to render and visualize the visible parts of the web page in the browser. This is referred to as the Above-the-fold (ATF) time. SpeedIndex (SI) has been widely used to estimate perceived web page loading speed of ATF content and a proxy metric for Web QoE estimation. Web application developers have been actively introducing innovative interactive features, such as animated and multimedia content, aiming to capture the users’ attention and improve the functionality and utility of the web applications. However, the literature shows that, for the websites with animated content, the estimated ATF time using the state-of-the-art metrics may not accurately match completed ATF time as perceived by users. This study introduces a new metric, Plausibly Complete Time (PCT), that estimates ATF time for a user’s perception of websites with and without animations. PCT can be integrated with SI and web QoE models. The accuracy of the proposed metric is evaluated based on two publicly available datasets. The proposed metric holds a high positive Spearman’s correlation (rs=0.89) with the Perceived ATF reported by the users for websites with and without animated content. This study demonstrates that using PCT as a KPI in QoE estimation models can improve the robustness of QoE estimation in comparison to using the state-of-the-art ATF time metric. Furthermore, experimental result showed that the estimation of SI using PCT improves the robustness of SI for websites with animated content. The PCT estimation allows web application designers to identify where poor design has significantly increased ATF time and refactor their implementation before it impacts end-user experience.

The Voyage Home

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-260
Author(s):  
Alasdair Pettinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
William Lloyd Garrison ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Distinctive Role

Through a close reading of Douglass’s farewell speech in London, the newspaper coverage of the racist discrimination he faced once again from the Cunard shipping company, and his subsequent account of the episode, this chapter shows how Douglass returned to the United States, equipped with the skills and confidence to embark on a new phase of his career, breaking away with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison with a strong sense of his own, distinctive, role in the antislavery struggle to come.

scholarly journals Your collective timeline of climate science history

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Tournadre ◽  
Mélodie Trolliet
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Science History ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

<p>EGU General Assembly is one of the world’s biggest conferences dedicated to geosciences. It gathers experts from all science fields connected to the study of past, present and future climates. Many of them have an historic perspective on their area of expertise: such knowledge is useful to develop an integrated view of the history of climate sciences.</p><p>We propose EGU2020 attendees to help building a collective timeline of the history of climate science. Everyone is invited to come to our poster to add to the printed timeline a scientific breakthrough in her/his field of expertise. This will be an opportunity to come to chat on climate science history and to construct together a wider picture of climate sciences.</p><p>The final cut of the timeline produced during EGU2020 will be available on our web page EarthBreath (https://www.sophia.mines-paristech.fr/earthbreath/), and our Twitter english (@eb_climate_data) and french (@eb_climat_fr) accounts.</p><p>EarthBreath is a non-profit initiative that we develop for promoting climate and Earth sciences to diverse publics.</p>

scholarly journals The Past is With Us and Yet to Come: A Hauntological Analysis of Tsutomu Mizushima’s Anime Series, 'Another'

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Luke Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
Intergenerational Effects ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come

Japanese director Tsutomu Mizushima’s 2012 animated television series, Another, presents a narrative whereby one social group’s refusal to accept an unexpected death triggers an intergenerational curse. This paper takes a close reading of Mizushima’s anime, showing how its narrative contends that the present—and by default the future—is not self-sufficient but instead relies upon understandings of the past. The analysis uses the lens of Jacques Derrida’s theory of hauntology, which opens up a space for discursive accounts of the presence of the past in the present and its influence on the future, and therefore serves as a powerful tool for interrogating questions of war memory. I demonstrate that Another exemplifies the use of anime as a critical medium, showing how it uses allegory to explore the motivations and consequences of Japan’s lack of a dominant historical narrative about the war and the resulting intergenerational effects of this historical consciousness problem. As Japan continues to debate remilitarisation and the fate of Article 9 in its constitution, it seems particularly apt to revisit Mizushima’s Another, which illustrates the dangers of ignoring the spectre of history.

Three Lessons from the History of a Book

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-764
Author(s):  
Eric Slauter
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Latino Identity ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Printed Materials

How Do Printed Objects Help Political Subjects Make and Remake Worlds? This is One of the Central Questions Animating Raúl Coronado's brilliant book A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture. I believe Coronado is one of the most gifted and imaginative literary scholars working today. What is more rare, his writing is both provocative and a pleasure to read. Casting himself as a genealogist, he deploys previously little-known printed materials to tell a dramatic story, and he tells it with a narrative confidence seldom seen in studies that rely, as his ultimately does, so heavily on the close reading of texts.In a series of discontinuous but deeply contextualized studies situated on the borderlands of Mexico and the United States, advancing from the 1810s to the 1850s and taking readers at times much further back (into, say, the diffusion of scholastic thought), Coronado traces a history of foreclosed revolutionary possibilities, of discursive dead ends and epistemological ruptures, and of the failure of communities to become anything but imagined. He probes understudied people, texts, and episodes for what they can tell us about the complex processes of the experience of modernization—and by modernization he means the major movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for republicanism, capitalism, individualism, secularism, and nationalism. He uses this discontinuous narrative also to arrest what he takes to be a misguided quest among some in his field for a different kind of genealogy: an unbroken lineage of Latino identity and subjectivity that centers on resistance. Instead, he narrates the making of a people as the unintended consequence of individuals who had hoped and failed to make a nation.

Schibboleth

Shibboleth ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Marc Redfield
Keyword(s):  
Test Word ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
To Come ◽  
Multiple Languages

The word shibboleth appears in two poems of Celan’s: “Schibboleth” and “In eins.” Both poems seem to bring this word close to the semantic field of slogan, refusing it the meaning of test-word as phoneme, though a close reading of “In eins” reveals that the poem multiplies possible referents for this word within the poem, through and as multiple citations in multiple languages. The poem addresses itself to and declares itself for an international socialism, yet also holds itself open to a shibboleth-to-come. Shibboleth would be this exposed word, the breath-turn or Atemwende evoked in Celan’s Meridian, an in-eins (in-one) irreducible to identity.

Web Page Extension of Data Warehouses

2011 ◽  
pp. 1211-1215
Author(s):  
Anthony Scime
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
World Wide ◽  
External Information ◽  
Data Warehouses ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

Data warehouses are constructed to provide valuable and current information for decision-making. Typically this information is derived from the organization’s functional databases. The data warehouse is then providing a consolidated, convenient source of data for the decision-maker. However, the available organizational information may not be sufficient to come to a decision. Information external to the organization is also often necessary for management to arrive at strategic decisions. Such external information may be available on the World Wide Web; and when added to the data warehouse extends decision-making power.

‘The Common Life’: Women and Men after the General Strike

2017 ◽  
pp. 87-111
Author(s):  
Nick Hubble
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Major Operation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lady Chatterley's Lover ◽  
To Come ◽  
General Strike

This chapter draws on the argument of Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill that the message of the defeat of the 1926 General Strike was the need to fuse political and sexual desire into ‘a new politicised and gendered imagination for struggles to come’. An extended close reading of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and its earlier drafts focuses on Lawrence’s sustained attempt to reimagine gender and class relations. This is followed by the discussion of a number of proletarian novels, such as Ellen Wilkinson’s Clash, Walter Brierley’s Means-Test Man, Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole, Harold Heslop’s Last Cage Down and James Barke’s Major Operation, in terms of how they reconcile sexual, gender and class politics.

scholarly journals Att känna sig obekväm men amma ändå

Budkavlen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Lina Metsämäki
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Breastfeeding In Public ◽  
Female Breast ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
To Come ◽  
Public Breastfeeding ◽  
Older Child

To Feel Uncomfortable but Still Breastfeed Problematic feelings and bodies in narratives about public breastfeeding   Lina Metsämäki   This article focuses on problems and strategies that are activated when a breastfeeding individual is engaging in activities in public spaces. The aim was to examine through the engendered feelings of being uncomfortable which problems a person encounters and what these feelings do to their body. This was done through a close reading of five interviews about breastfeeding in public and comments on an article about public breastfeeding published on the webpages of Svenska Yle during the summer of 2017. Feelings of being uncomfortable did not stop the informants from breastfeeding in public, but the feelings made their bodies engage with the space in a different manner. The informants regulated their bodies through their feelings of being uncomfortable. They used strategies to make their breastfeeding as invisible as possible, such as turning away from public attention or using certain clothes or scarves to conceal they are nursing or going into another room to breastfeed. Feelings like fear, disgust, embarrassment, shame and pain are all connected to the feeling of being uncomfortable. The problems are also connected to the sexual connotations of the female breast and it was important for the informants not to come across as being sexual while breastfeeding. Since the breast is usually considered sexual and men are assumed to be sexually attracted to female breasts problems arise. Other problems concern the fact that other people may be made to feel uncomfortable or being pointed out and receiving negative comments while breastfeeding. Bodily functions can be problematic as well, especially leaking breastmilk that may leave stains on clothing. Another problem was breaking the norms surrounding breastfeeding, for instance by breastfeeding an older child.

scholarly journals READING POVERTY IN MODERNIST LITERATURE: RIFFATERRIAN SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS ON T.S ELIOT'S MORNING AT THE WINDOW

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Nestiani Hutami ◽  
Diaz Adrian
Keyword(s):  
Main Issue ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
To Come

Abstract: The idea of poverty as the theme has been recurrently used in literature. However, it is rarely come across in Modernist Literature. Accordingly, this study examines poverty as the theme, which is also the main issue in a poem written by T.S. Eliot entitled Morning at the Window. To dive deep into the main issue of the poem, it uses a close-reading method. It focuses on how the text of the poem represents the main issue in which the poem tries to convey. To come into the results of the study, three aspects from Semiotics of Poetry by Michael Riffaterre are used, which are unsustainable expressions, heuristic and hermeneutic reading, and matrix. Analyzing these three aspects, the results show that the representation of poverty as the main issue is evidently stated. The diction in the poem successfully creates the images and set the tone that correlates with poverty.

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