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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 the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bill. The vets received the now-clichéd advice to write what they know, to turn their war experiences into war stories. The next wave...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...
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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
..., and Gregg Mitman describe as “community” ecology. Later, postwar urbanists such as Jane Jacobs would draw on the authority of community ecology to reckon with the physical and social transformations then being carried out within New York City's urban renewal programs. Offering scientific evidence...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2019
... offer a richly detailed glimpse into this chapter of US history, recovering the efforts of local black television programs and historically black newspapers to disseminate black power politics and Black Arts movement theory and performance to a much wider audience. Black Power TV and Race News...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
... start to resemble natural rather than technical objects. Like compiled computer programs that need to be painstakingly “disassembled,” neural networks require extensive arrays of “interpretability” techniques to become legible. Unlike those programs, however, there is no code to fall back...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
... employed to write FORTRAN computer programs for childhood literacy research in Silicon Valley, Spicer had close familiarity with many developments in natural language processing (NLP). His lectures also show a familiarity with computer generation of linguistic artifacts, or natural language generation (NLG...
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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
... these demands and desires triggered. Working at the crossroads of education history and literary study, Cooper provides a fascinating comparison of citizenship education programs aimed at molding American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants into “good Americans” (1). Including perspectives from...
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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...
Journal Article
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
... for the prevalence of AI characters in games. Unlike literature, film, or television series, however, the history of AI in video games exceeds representation. The earliest history of AI includes uses of games to test AI programs. Already in the late 1940s, mathematicians Alan Turing and Claude Shannon both used...
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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 (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... World; and (f) the haunting observations of the dolls themselves as they are transported to a facility in the desert to await power failure and permanent shutdown. Each of the human voices is programmed into the MARY code that will become the basis for the babybots in a narrative that reminds us that AI...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 691–693.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of
recommendation, for the Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship is 15 October
2000; the deadline for the other fellowships is 15 January 2001. A brochure
containing full details about the AAS Fellowship Program and information...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
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ment with the creation of the Children’s Bureau in 1912, the foundation
of juvenile court systems and mothers’ pensions programs in a majority
of states by the early 1920s, and passage of a free federal health care
program for mothers and infants in 1921 (Skocpol 1992, Mink 1995).
During...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to institutions out of California. As a paradigm, EOC speaks to the trace memory of 1968 as Asian American studies programs become administered as a symbol of US and global diversity without politics, material support, or fluency in ethnic studies theories and methodologies. By acting across institutions, EOC...
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