Thesis advisor: Marjorie Howes / Networking Modernist Institutions: Technologies of Literature in Yeats, Joyce, Gissing, and Woolf explores how authors, readers, and books were linked through complex institutions that produced, distributed, organized, and manipulated literary works. More specifically, I argue that often-overlooked literary systems, such as the private press industry, postal service, and libraries, governed the interaction between books and people. In doing so, I look first to W. B. Yeats and the bookmaking traditions that shaped his notion of a sacred book of literature. By leveraging private press networks, I suggest, Yeats attempted to reimagine the book as a sacred object capable of challenging a commercialized and commodified literary world and enacting a poetic and national tradition distinct from the dominant patterns of literary production in the early twentieth century. I then trace the physical movement of texts through a study of the postal service, arguing that James Joyce reveals the various relays, diversions, destructions, and interventions associated with the movement of mail in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939), and more importantly, that Joyce’s formal experiment emanates from these everyday experiences of the mail, as books, printed and delivered, settling on the shelves of private and public institutions. The fiction of George Gissing gives insight into the uses of such spaces on the eve of modernism. I argue that Gissing’s chronicle of libraries and their uses in the late nineteenth century provides insight into how modernist authors’ ambivalence about the library and its social consequences. Finally, I turn to the fiction of Virginia Woolf, revealing some of the ways books existed as objects in the early twentieth century. As a printer, publisher, binder, reader, and writer, Woolf recognized books as everyday objects that demanded her care and attention. In her fiction, she imagines the ways in which books simultaneously build tangible barriers and create modes of intimacy. Consequently, she inscribes a modernist sense of the book that simultaneously unites its readers ideologically while keeping them physically at a distance. By extending recent studies of modernism’s response to the shifting media ecology of its day and the importance of historical readings of the bibliographical context of modernist works, I shed light on literary representations of these institutional spaces and their influence on modernist forms. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The problem of the dissertation is to examine and describe the rib-pattern and the concept of judgment in the Book of Psalms because of the emphasis which recent interpreters have placed on the Psalter as the hymn book of the cultic community. The primary concern of the dissertation is to show that in the Psalms, the concept of judgment is uniquely related to the temple and to the priesthood, and to point out the various ways in which Yahweh's judgment as seen in the Psalter affected the lives of the people of Israel. [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

The publishing industry currently faces a re-birth due to the rise of Information Technology (IT),which has created new production and distribution channels. Paper is no longer the only form for publishing; tablets, e-reader, smart phones, and Personal Computer (PC) screens are gaining anincreasing market share. The Leaf Project aims to position itself in the publishing industry by creating a new business start-up exploiting this IT revolution. We divide the publishing industry into three different parts: Production is concerned about content creation and acquisition. Distribution concerns delivering the content to consumers. Access and presentation is about how the content is presented to consumers and how they can access this content. In The Leaf Project we are developing a new way to distribute publications, along with creating an end user interface to browse and access this content. The project is divided into four different masters theses. One is concerned with creating the distribution network, and another is concerned with creating the end user interface. This thesis provides a market analysis and proposes a business model. The fourth thesis will consolidate the complete project by developing a business plan. When looking into the three different parts of the publishing industry, this commercialization plan first benchmarks the proposed end user application and the distribution network by comparing them with currently marketed products. Following this the thesis will examine what is the best content that could be distributed through our network. The final part of this thesis will recommend a business model based on the outcomes of the first two parts of this thesis. This thesis project should be useful for the fourth thesis project that must create an appropriate business plan and this thesis should also help the technical developer by providing market analysis that can be used to guide technical decisions. / Förlagsbranschen står för närvarande inför en pånyttfödelse på grund av uppkomsten av informationsteknik (IT), vilket har skapat nya produktions- och distributionskanaler. Papper är inte längre den enda publiceringsformen; tablets, e-läsare, smartphones, och PC-skärmar har börjat få en allt större marknadsandel. Leaf Projektet syftar till att positionera sig i förlagsbranschen genom att skapa ett startup-företag som utnyttjar IT-revolutionen. Vi delar in förlagsbranschen i tre olika delar: Produktion handlar om att skapa och förvärva innehåll. Distribution handlar om att leverera innehåll till konsumenter Tillgång och presentation handlar om hur innehållet presenteras för konsumenterna och hurde kan komma åt innehållet. I Leaf Projektet utvecklar vi ett nytt sätt att distribuera publikationer, samtidigt som vi skapar ett gränssnitt för slutanvändaren att bläddra i och komma åt innehållet. Projektet är indelat i fyra olika magistersavhandlingar. En handlar om att skapa distributionsnät, och en annan handlar om att skapa gränssnittet för slutanvändaren. Denna avhandling ger en marknadsanalys och föreslår en affärsmodell. Den fjärde avhandlingen kommer att sammanfatta hela projektet genom att presentera enaffärsplan. Vår affärsmodell presenterar den tilltänkta gränssnittet för slutanvändaren samt distributionsnätverket genom att jämföra dem med produkter som redan finns på marknaden. Efter detta, kommer avhandlingen att undersöka vilket innehåll skulle bäst kunna distribueras genom vårt nätverk. Den sista delen av denna uppsats kommer att lägga fram en affärsmodell baserad på resultaten av de två första delarna av denna avhandling. Denna avhandling borde bli användbar för den fjärde avhandlingen som måste skapa en rimlig affärsplan och avhandlingen borde också hjälpa den tekniska utvecklaren genom att visa en marknadsanalys som kan användas för att styra tekniska beslut.

This study resolves divergent prior findings relating book-tax differences to future earnings, determines whether prior literature has missed relationships between different types of book-tax differences and pre-tax and/or after-tax income, and investigates prior earnings as a factor contributing to the observed relationships. As past research has found that some firms have large book-tax differences over several years, this study separates these firms with large stable book-tax differences from others with large book-tax differences (non-stable) when investigating the link between large book-tax differences and future earnings. Finally, this study investigates whether the relationship between book-tax differences and future earnings reflects information about prior earnings and finds that prior earnings growth explains much of the lower persistence found for firms with large book-tax differences.

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The problem was to create four oil paintings which illustrate Book of Mormon events.The Book of Mormon seems to hold forth great promise to the painter of religious subjects, but to the present only a limited number of artists have made use of this rich source. There is a need for good illustrations to help these scriptures come to life for the Book of Mormon reader.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

Bayesian Epistemology is a general framework for thinking about agents who have beliefs that come in degrees. Theories in this framework give accounts of rational belief and rational belief change, which share two key features: (i) rational belief states are represented with probability functions, and (ii) rational belief change results from the acquisition of evidence. This dissertation focuses specifically on the second feature. I pose the Evidence Question: What is it to have evidence? Before addressing this question we must have an understanding of Bayesian Epistemology. The first chapter argues that we should understand Bayesian Epistemology as giving us theories that are evaluative and not action-guiding. I reach this verdict after considering the popular ‘ought’-implies-‘can’ objection to Bayesian Epistemology. The second chapter argues that it is important for theories in Bayesian Epistemology to answer the Evidence Question, and distinguishes between internalist and externalist answers. The third and fourth chapters present and defend a specific answer to the Evidence Question. The account is inspired by reliabilist accounts of justification, and attempts to understand what it is to have evidence by appealing solely to considerations of reliability. Chapter 3 explains how to understand reliability, and how the account fits with Bayesian Epistemology, in particular, the requirement that an agent’s evidence receive probability 1. Chapter 4 responds to objections, which maintain that the account gives the wrong verdict in a variety of situations including skeptical scenarios, lottery cases, scientific cases, and cases involving inference. After slight modifications, I argue that my account has the resources to answer the objections. The fifth chapter considers the possibility of losing evidence. I show how my account can model these cases. To do so, however, we require a modification to Conditionalization, the orthodox principle governing belief change. I present such a modification. The sixth and seventh chapters propose a new understanding of Dutch Book Arguments, historically important arguments for Bayesian principles. The proposal shows that the Dutch Book Arguments for implausible principles are defective, while the ones for plausible principles are not. The final chapter is a conclusion.