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" While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism,
Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers
and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce.
Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences
to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more
interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous
differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness,
experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a
fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the
process of artistic creation, and the inclusion of artist figures
who are in varying degrees ironic self-portrayals. The contributors
to Joyce/Lowry examine the relationship of these two expatriates
writers, both to each other and to broader issues in the study of
literary modernism and its aftermath. This collection embraces a
variety of approaches. The volume begins with a consideration of
Joyce and Lowry as practitioners of Expressionist art and concludes
with an essay on John Huston's cinematic interpretation of works by
both writers. In between are explorations of nationalism,
anti-Semitism, syphilis, mental illness, and authorial design.
In 1929, ten years before James Joyce completed "Finnegans Wake",
Sylvia Beach published a strange book with a stranger title: "Our
Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in
Progress". Worried by the confusion and attacks that constituted
the general reception of his "Work in Progress" (the working title
for "Finnegans Wake"), Joyce orchestrated this collection of twelve
essays and two 'letters of protest' from such writers as Samuel
Beckett, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, and William
Carlos Williams. "Our Exagmination" represents an altogether
unusual hybrid of criticism and advertisement, and since its first
appearance has remained a touchstone as well as a point of
contention for Joyce scholars. Eighty years later, Joyce's
"Disciples Disciplined" reads the "Exagmination" as an integral
part of the larger composition history and interpretive context of
"Finnegans Wake" itself. This new collection of essays by fourteen
outstanding Joycean scholars offers one essay in response to each
of the original "Exagmination" contributions. From philosophically
informed exegeses and new conceptions of international modernism to
considerations of dance, film, and the flourishing field of genetic
studies, these essays together exemplify an interdisciplinary
criticism that is also a lively and ongoing conversation with that
criticism's history.
The 1940 Under the Volcano-hidden for too long in the shadows of
Lowry's 1947 masterpiece-differs from the latter in significant
ways. It is a bridge between Lowry's 1930s fiction (especially In
Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself.
Joining the recently published Swinging the Maelstrom and In
Ballast to the White Sea, The 1940 Under the Volcano takes its
rightful place as part of Lowry's exciting 1930s/early-40s trilogy.
Scholars have only recently begun to pay systematic attention to
convergences and divergences between this earlier work and the 1947
version. Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen's insightful introduction,
together with extensive annotations by Chris Ackerley and David
Large, reveal the depth and breadth of Lowry's complex vision for
his work. This critical edition fleshes out our sense of the
enormous achievement by this twentieth-century modernist.
Malcolm Lowry's reputation as a novelist rests primarily on the
masterpiece Under the Volcano. Lowry is also well known for what he
did not write; that is, for his anguished inability to complete his
works. Under the Volcano is one of only two novels published in
Lowry's lifetime; the bulk of his writings were still in various
stages of composition when he died in 1957. In Forests of Symbols,
Patrick A. McCarthy addresses the central enigma of the writer's
life: his dependence on writing for his sense of identity and his
fear that the process of composition would leave him with no
identity apart from his work.
The Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Advanced Navigation
Technology (ANT) Center has recently delved into the research topic
of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). One area of particular
interest is using multiple small UAVs cooperatively to improve
mission efficiency, as well as perform missions that couldn't be
performed using vehicles independently. However, many of these
missions require that the UAVs operate in close proximity with each
other. This research lays the foundation required to use the ANT
Center's UAVs for multi-vehicle missions (e.g. cooperatively) by
accomplishing two major goals. First, it develops test procedures
that can be used to characterize the tracking performance of a
small UAV being controlled by a waypoint guided autopilot. This
defines the size of the safety zones that must be maintained around
each vehicle to ensure no collisions, assuming no, as yet
unspecified, collision avoidance algorithm is being implemented.
Secondly, a formation flight algorithm is developed that can be
used to guide UAVs relative to each other using a waypoint guided
autopilot. This is done by dynamically changing the waypoints. Such
an approach gives a wrap-around method of cooperatively controlling
UAVs that can only be guided waypoint-to-waypoint. For both
components of this research, tests were conducted using a
hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation before validating through
flight testing. This report, along with legacy documentation and
procedures, furthers the UAV test bed at AFIT and establishes
methods for simulating, visualizing, and flight testing multiple
UAVs during formation/cooperative flight.
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Star Maker (Paperback, New Ed)
Olaf Stapledon; Edited by Patrick A. McCarthy; Contributions by Freeman J. Dyson
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Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction,
Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story
details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is
transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and
parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic
mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of
alien life are a political commentary on human life in the
turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions
of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a
broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained
thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first
scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S.
Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a
prodigious novel."
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