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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
...N. Katherine Hayles Abstract The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3 illustrates the challenges of interpreting algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates interpretive strategies that recognize the profound differences...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of program building followed the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, which brought Vietnam vets into a changing workshop, where students still learned to write what they know but also, as pre–civil rights racial liberalism turned to post...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... : Signet . McGrath Laura . 2019 . “ Comping White .” Los Angeles Review of Books , January 21 . McGurl Mark . 2009 . The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . “ Memo on Congress of African People .” 1970 . Box...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 151–174.
Published: 01 March 2012
... an aesthetic program that offers solutions to the contradictions and incoherencies of postwar modernism. He aims to show thereby that so-called middlebrow literature might be thought of not merely in terms of the set of structures for marketing and distribution through which it was consumed, but as having...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Danica Savonick Abstract This article examines Adrienne Rich’s teaching materials, writings on education, and participation in the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge educational opportunity program in order to argue that poetry and pedagogy were interrelated means through which Rich...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: The
Title I Program,” in Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation
of New York, ed. Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson [New York: Norton,
2007], 112).
41 “Mayor’s Remarks at Housing Hearing,” New York Times, 6 October 1955,
22.
42 New York (N.Y.) City Planning...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Patrick S. Lawrence Abstract US economic policy in the late twentieth century privileged the financial sector by advancing generous tax breaks for wealthy Americans and traders and prioritizing union-busting and cuts to social programs, producing a violence of deprivation against the poor...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Journal and the “arts-focused” Soul! (21). Heitner first considers how Black Journal ’s coverage of political struggle on the African continent provided audiences with a diasporic view of black empowerment. She then examines how Soul! promoted the Black Arts ethos, writing that the program...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
... designed his NLG program to select meaningful sentences based on an analysis of probability relations: the likelihood that one word will appear next to another. The word set he drew from Kafka was transformed into a “word field,” or probability matrix; using this matrix of probabilities, the machine...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that language models, specifically sequence-to-sequence models based on recurrent neural networks, can, within certain limits, “learn to execute” short computer programs; that is, they can infer from a short program provided as input what the program would output were it to be run. The conditional is important...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is a delightful example of the
opposed pole of the subfield. Written in light, bright prose, it argues that we
are evolutionarily programmed to be “greedy mind readers” (8), and that a
large part of the pleasure of literature is a by-product of this programming.
Getting inside Your Head is, therefore...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2017
... suggest individuality and interiority in both their white and black subjects, despite the fact that one group is being trained for self-reflection and civic engagement and the other for labor. For each assimilationist program she examines, Cooper points to modes of resistance including ironic mimicry...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 571–601.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., The PJs (1998–2000)—the first
prime-time program in American television history to feature a com-
pletely nonwhite, non-middle-class, and non-live-action cast, as well
as the first to depict its characters in foamation, a three-dimensional,
stop-motion animation technique trademarked by Will Vinton...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., their vision was nevertheless rooted in the concrete work of two of their graduate students, Terry Winograd and Eugene Charniak and, in particular, in Winograd’s thesis project, a program called SHRDLU. SHRDLU was a language-understanding program, and the language it was capable of understanding...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 591–626.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Moscow : Progress . McGurl Mark . 2009 . The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Mendoza Victor Román . 2015 . Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 435–438.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... The connection between AI and games moves beyond the application of the former to improve the experience of the latter. Increasingly games have become an experimental testing ground for AI developers, especially with human users. This kind of AI testing became visible and popular when the chess-playing program...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
... government moves to shut down its space program (as in the climate dystopia Interstellar [Nolan 2014 ]), and Lauren’s father, voicing the common opinion, insists that “you don’t have any idea what a criminal waste of time and money that so-called space program is” (20), Lauren Olamina serves as a prophet...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... influence of Scott’s Blade Runner . In Hall’s Speak , Stephen Chinn develops a successful AI program from an algorithm he designs to disrupt what he sees as the machinic quality of most human verbal interaction, the phatic discourse that we use to speak yet not really communicate, which he terms...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
... on in computers.14
The reasons for setting up such a dichotomy derive partly from our
fear that computers could program their own goals and pursue them
to their own ends, like the computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey,
(1968) who tries to murder the astronaut Dave after beating him at
chess. The challenge...
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