The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing

Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction. Jeffrey J. Folks is professor of literature at Doshisha University in Japan. Nancy Summer Folks is a freelance editor with more than 15 years experience working with Southern literature. This book is an important text for the student of southern literature and history because each author examined is writing from the other side of the turbulent Fifties and Sixties, from having seen rural towns become burgeoning cities, and from having witnessed the politically disenfranchised attempt to join the mainstream. —Journal of the American Studies Association The essays challenge popular perceptions about the South and lend insight into the cultural and literary future of the region. —Book News The editors’ introduction succinctly summarizes a quarter-century of literary scholarship with a social focus. Strongly recommended. —Choice Multifaceted and illuminating. . . . These essays provide the kind of new critical perspectives southern fiction demands and deserves as it continues to depict social and cultural changes. The editors and essayists have paved the way for our understanding of the future of southern fiction. —David Madden These essays challenge popular perceptions about the South and lend insight into the cultural and literary future of the region. —Educational Book Review A satisfying collection of essays by scholars who have proved themselves as solid commentators in the field of southern literature. —Fred Hobson Reminds us, as have previous scholars of Southern literature, that the literature of the American South is much more varied and variegated than we often imagine. We should be thankful for this reminder. —Mississippi Quarterlyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1063/thumbnail.jp

Statistical methods and subjective probability Status report

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Adaptation and Aspiration: Constructing Modern Japan through Ideological Combat in Satsuma Rebellion Prints

Although past scholarship on Meiji-period prints has favored a clean evolution–from Yokohama-e to senso-e, samurai to soldier–this thesis considers two images of the Satsuma Rebellion that complicate both this historical transition and the art historical assessment of the woodblock medium. If the rebellion marked the “dress rehearsal” for imperial encroachment in Asia, I argue that woodblock prints offered mixed, preliminary reviews of Modern Japan. Between the eager curiosity of Yokohama-e and the self-exaltation of senso-e, Yoshitoshi and Shoso’s Satsuma Rebellion e-Sugoroku Game Board and Kunisada III’s War with the Western Nations mark the internal negotiation between competing notions of Japanese identity, as well as competing directions for the woodblock print – both in terms of pictorial style and social function. Through the analysis of sartorial vocabulary, technological innovation, and the pictorial stages on which these scenes play out, I explore this active negotiation staged through ink and paper.Master of Art

Experimental Design Models

If we were to assume a linear relationship between x and y described by the model y = a + βx + e it is unlikely that we would consider writing the model as y = a + bx + cx + e. It is even more unlikely that we would apply the least squares principle by minimizing Σe2 with respect to a, b, and c. Yet a similar thing happens in experimental design. In fact, it is common practice to use less than full-rank models where the parameters are not defined and, in cases where they are defined, to minimize Σe2 with respect to the full set of parameters which are not functionally independent

Junior Recital, Quinton Folks, viola

The presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Quinton Folks studies viola with Molly Sharp

Senior Recital, Quinton Folks, viola

The presentation of this senior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Quinton Folks studies viola with Molly Sharp

Three-Dimensional Magnetic Page Memory

The increasing need to store large amounts of information with an ultra-dense, reliable, low power and low cost memory device is driving aggressive efforts to improve upon current perpendicular magnetic recording technology. However, the difficulties in fabricating small grain recording media while maintaining thermal stability and a high signal-to-noise ratio motivate development of alternative methods, such as the patterning of magnetic nano-islands and utilizing energy-assist for future applications. In addition, both from sensor and memory perspective three-dimensional spintronic devices are highly desirable to overcome the restrictions on the functionality in the planar structures. Here we demonstrate a three-dimensional magnetic-memory (magnetic page memory) based on thermally assisted and stray-field induced transfer of domains in a vertical stack of magnetic nanowires with perpendicular anisotropy. Using spin-torque induced domain shifting in such a device with periodic pinning sites provides additional degrees of freedom by allowing lateral information flow to realize truly three-dimensional integration