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April 22, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 CFPs, Literature, Poetics

CFP: Reassessing Language Poetry: Thirty Years After The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book

A CFP for a special session I'll be chairing at this year's Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference in Riverside, CA (Oct. 31-Nov. 2)

April 18, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Literature, Poetics

My Entire Dissertation Summed Up in One Lyn Hejinian Sentence

Yup. Now that I've found this, there's really no reason to keep writing.

January 27, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Literature, Poetics

Ricoeur on Understanding

Today's dissertation-related quote, courtesy of philosopher Paul Ricoeur

January 17, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Art, Literature

David Foster Wallace on TV, Literature, and Avant-Garde Fiction

Given my work with avant-garde poetry, I'm especially interested in the last 30 seconds or so of this clip, but DFW's remarks on the TV-literature relationship are also fun to think about.

October 20, 2013 tjesse2 3-for-3, Life, Literature, Teaching

3-for-3: Joyce Carol Oates is Not Messing Around

3-for-3, Episode 2.4: Why Do Teachers Quit?; E-mails From the "Atlas Shrugged Guy"; Joyce Carol Oates vs. Robert Frost

October 13, 2013October 13, 2013 tjesse2 3-for-3, Life, Literature, Teaching

3-for-3: A Twitter “Thought Experiment”

3-for-3, Episode 2.2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Technology; Reviewing David Foster Wallace; The "Banality of Evil" and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

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