3-for-3, Episode 2.1: Failure on an #epic scale; David (Rutgers U. graduate faculty) vs. Goliath (Pearson eCollege), Part 1; David (avant-garde poetry) vs. Goliath (capitalism), Part 2
Kenneth Burke, Louis Zukofsky, and the Comic Framing of “A”-23
If Kenneth Burke was such good friends with William Carlos Williams, and if WCW thought so highly of his poetic protege Louis Zukofsky, then why did Burke consider some of Zukofsky's lines "absolutely hideous"?
Two Thoughts on My First Academic Publication
After having my first review published, some brief thoughts on the collaborative writing process, shifting notions of "audience" for young academics, and the production of "meticulous, responsible" scholarship.
Rhetorical Hermeneutics . . . For the Win?
Rhetorical hermeneutics argues that any explanatory attempt must embed the act of interpretation first in its most relevant critical debates (and there may be several); then the act and its participation in ongoing arguments must be situated in the rhetorical traditions within relevant institutional discourses; and then the interpretive act, its arguments, and its framing … Continue reading Rhetorical Hermeneutics . . . For the Win?
3-for-3: Oh, the Places We’d Go!
3-for-3, Episode 1.2: Getting Over the "Humanities Hump" at Harvard; T.S. Eliot DM's Virginia Woolf, 1924-Style; Touring the "Infinite Boston" of David Foster Wallace
Debuting a New Feature: The “3-for-3”
3-for-3, Episode 1.1: Laptops in the Classroom, Natasha Trethewey, and Rage Against the Death of Metanarratives (Plus, extra-special guest Mitch Hedberg!)
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