This study examines Mina Loy's unpublished autobiographical writings and challenges the exist... more This study examines Mina Loy's unpublished autobiographical writings and challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as the 'modern woman'. Between 1920 and the late 1940s Loy wrote four overlapping versions of her autobiography: 'The Child and the Parent', 'Goy Israels', 'Islands in the Air' and 'Insel'. This study develops a chronology for Loy's autobiographies and it examines each version's engagement with constructs of the 'modern' and of the 'modern writer'. Since the 1980s scholars have primarily focused on the 'modernist' techniques Loy employed in her early poetry. Often these critical surveys exclude texts that cannot be grouped under the heading 'modernism' in order to justify Loy's inclusion within the movement. Her poetry and her autobiographies written after the late 1920s suggest a shift in her aesthetics away from her earlier 'modernist' work. Till now her prose and her po...
Citizen is certainly an amalgam of verse, prose, and images. However, something about the poet’s ... more Citizen is certainly an amalgam of verse, prose, and images. However, something about the poet’s sense of purpose leaves me with the distinct impression that the sum of Citizen’s parts amounts to a form we’re expected to recognize. The disorientation we experience from moment to moment in her work ought to be familiar. Rankine’s use of the second person implies as much (the protagonist is consistently referred to as “you”). More to the point, Rankine’s subject matter remains so consistent throughout the book’s various forms, I find it difficult to accept that the disorientation we experience when reading it is anything less than congenital. With Citizen, Rankine is successfully probing the pervasive malignancy of a peculiarly American form of trauma.
Building cooling and heating consume around one-third of total primary energy consumption. Renewa... more Building cooling and heating consume around one-third of total primary energy consumption. Renewable and passive systems can reduce the building cooling and heating energy demand. Earth air tunnel heat exchanger (EATHE) is one of the promising passive techniques which can serve the purpose of space heating and cooling using constant temperature of underground soil. It is a promissing passive technique for space heating and cooling but it required long pipes and large land area for installation of pipes. Various studies have been conducted in last few decades to investigate the various parameters that may reduce the length of pipe and land area requirement. In this article, the effect of thermal properties of soil on the performance of earth air heat exchanger systems have been reviewed. This review article shows that length of pipe and land area requirement for EATHE pipe installation can be substantially reduced by using thermally enhanced backfilling material at the vicinity of th...
This study examines Mina Loy's unpublished autobiographical writings and challenges the exist... more This study examines Mina Loy's unpublished autobiographical writings and challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as the 'modern woman'. Between 1920 and the late 1940s Loy wrote four overlapping versions of her autobiography: 'The Child and the Parent', 'Goy Israels', 'Islands in the Air' and 'Insel'. This study develops a chronology for Loy's autobiographies and it examines each version's engagement with constructs of the 'modern' and of the 'modern writer'. Since the 1980s scholars have primarily focused on the 'modernist' techniques Loy employed in her early poetry. Often these critical surveys exclude texts that cannot be grouped under the heading 'modernism' in order to justify Loy's inclusion within the movement. Her poetry and her autobiographies written after the late 1920s suggest a shift in her aesthetics away from her earlier 'modernist' work. Till now her prose and her po...
Citizen is certainly an amalgam of verse, prose, and images. However, something about the poet’s ... more Citizen is certainly an amalgam of verse, prose, and images. However, something about the poet’s sense of purpose leaves me with the distinct impression that the sum of Citizen’s parts amounts to a form we’re expected to recognize. The disorientation we experience from moment to moment in her work ought to be familiar. Rankine’s use of the second person implies as much (the protagonist is consistently referred to as “you”). More to the point, Rankine’s subject matter remains so consistent throughout the book’s various forms, I find it difficult to accept that the disorientation we experience when reading it is anything less than congenital. With Citizen, Rankine is successfully probing the pervasive malignancy of a peculiarly American form of trauma.
Building cooling and heating consume around one-third of total primary energy consumption. Renewa... more Building cooling and heating consume around one-third of total primary energy consumption. Renewable and passive systems can reduce the building cooling and heating energy demand. Earth air tunnel heat exchanger (EATHE) is one of the promising passive techniques which can serve the purpose of space heating and cooling using constant temperature of underground soil. It is a promissing passive technique for space heating and cooling but it required long pipes and large land area for installation of pipes. Various studies have been conducted in last few decades to investigate the various parameters that may reduce the length of pipe and land area requirement. In this article, the effect of thermal properties of soil on the performance of earth air heat exchanger systems have been reviewed. This review article shows that length of pipe and land area requirement for EATHE pipe installation can be substantially reduced by using thermally enhanced backfilling material at the vicinity of th...
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