Persona-lly Appealing: Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard and Authorial Self-Representation

Medieval anxieties: translation and authorial self-representation in the vernacular beast fable

My dissertation examines the concept of vernacular translation in the Middle Ages, particularly examining French and Middle English texts. It focuses on a specific genre of literature popular in the Middle Ages but relatively ignored in contemporary literary scholarship: the beast fable. My argument is that some of the principal writers of vernacular fables from the twelfth through the fifteent...

Usable Persona Interface: Persona-Bookmark

We present a design that assigns persona information and uses it to selects one identity from several user identities in user resources such as bookmarks. As a proof of concept, we implemented a persona-bookmark system. In this system, a user can assign his persona information to his bookmarks so that the system automates login processes using the persona information. Thus, the user can log int...

Redistribution , Poor Relief , and the Welfare State Richard

Self-Knowledge and Self-Representation

In th is paper I introduce a contrast between homomorphic and non-homomorphic ascript ions of informational content to representations. In the former case there is a mapping from the parts of the representation onto the constituents of the content. In the l a t t e r case, there is not; some of the constituents of the content are set t led bj background factors. I contrast th is d i s t i nc t ...

Persona and defence mechanisms.