Literary Theory

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• Misc.

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Misc. * Ezra Klein argues Nancy Pelosi is playing three-dimensional chess . * "Tea Party" is now a registered party in Florida. Excelsior! The skys the limit. * John Hodgman now has a daily podcast . * 40 House Democrats are now threatening to vote no on the health care conference bill unless Stupak is ...
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• Saturday Night Fever

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Saturday night, and I cant stop reloading the blogs to see how health care is doing. Image at the right via kate. * The White House press corps does not believe you have not heard of V . * Democratic congresswomen shouted down by Republicans. Matt has the video , and its pretty astounding. * Krugman: ...
  4 days ago

• Happy Saturday

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Happy Saturday. Youve earned it. * On the Yankee payroll. Via Barking Up the Wrong Tree . In 2002, the Yankees spent $17 million more in payroll than any other team. In 2003, the Yankees spent $35 million more in payroll than any other team. In 2004, the Yankees spent $57 million more in payroll than any other ...
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• Two non-fiction books that have impressed me lately

  
  Floating Life — Authority: 424
   1. Tariq Ali, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008)Yes, I know: Tariq Ali, famous 1968 alumnus and “wild man” of the Left. But even London’s Spectator, hardly famous for Marxist leanings, concedes, while also drawing attention to the book’s very pleasing style:… Tariq Ali’s ...
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• Aesthetics

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 129
  When I look closely at what I admire about certain pieces of literature I find myself popping a quarter in some literary jukebox in the back of my mind.  It’s the language that trips a fault line in my soul, not the underlying philosophy of a text or the peculiar development of a character.  Those things have a ...
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• ABD, Hey Thats Me

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees (something that appears to be the case in doctoral education generally), and only about half of the rest end up with the jobs they entered graduate school to get—that is, tenured professorships. Over the three decades since the ...
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• Weak theory

  
  Working notes — Authority: 489
  I said last time that while I find Eve Sedgwicks position in her essay "Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading" extremely problematic--largely because of her unquestioning (and, indeed, last ditch) commitment to close reading, her authoritative, hyper-moralistic, and accusatory tone, and her general feeling that "big ...
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• Hindi speaking American professor to teach in Mumbai

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Arun KumarWashington, Oct 28 (IANS) An American professor, who has lived in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh and speaks Hindi well, has won a Fulbright scholarship to teach and study at the University of Mumbai during spring semester 2010.“I am thrilled and excited by my selection, not only for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paul Frys Theory Course

  
  Working notes — Authority: 489
  Here is an absolute treat: Paul Frys introduction to the theory of literature course, both in podcast and video format here at Yales Open Courses website. If you want to know what literary theory is (whether you are in literature or in another discipline), go to this site and listen to the courses. He is simply the ...
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• The new "text"

  
  Working notes — Authority: 489
  I have spoken too often of Sianne Ngais book Ugly Feelings without outlining its argument. Its time to make clear what I find problematic about it, rather than let the little allusions perform a work of dismissal.For I dont think you can dismiss Ngai: her work is important for drawing our attention to the everyday ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tell Don’t Show: Glee and the Epic Voice

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 426
  Why yes, Virginia, I do plan to reuse this graphic every time I write about this show. Glee has honestly been a little patchy, for me, since its stellar pilot and the equally stellar season opener.  It’s never been less than enjoyable, but there were a couple of weeks there – episodes 3 and 4, to be precise – ...
  4 weeks ago

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