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)
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.
Ricoeur on Understanding
Today's dissertation-related quote, courtesy of philosopher Paul Ricoeur
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.
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
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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