3-for-3, Episode 1.3: Midcentury America Seen Through the Camera's Eye; Racing to the Top with All of Our Very Serious Friends; I'M ON A BOAT!
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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!)
Teaching for Fall 2013
The course description and booklist for the class I will be teaching in the Fall 2013 semester: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE.
Pursuit of the (Barefooted) Pneuma: James Alan McPherson’s “A Matter of Vocabulary”
A mini-essay examining James McPherson's "A Matter of Vocabulary" and the struggle to verbalize communal identities.
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