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  • The Valve — Authority Authority: 542
    2 days ago

  • Coming up...


    Working notes — Authority Authority: 410
    -A post on Marshal McLuhan vs. Raymond Williams.-A post on why literary theory doesnt deal with aesthetics (often perplexing to those outside literature).-A post on the dividual in Deleuze and notions of community, via a nice passage from Red Mars.-A post on Jamesons deep notion that postmodern theory ends up thinking ...
    4 days ago

  • It’s Always Our Fault


    Gerry Canavan — Authority Authority: 486
    UC President Mark Yudof : Many of our, if I can put it this way, businesses are in good shape. We’re doing very well there. Our hospitals are full, our medical business, our medical research, the patient care. So, we have this core problem: Who is going to pay the salary of the English department? We have to have ...
    6 days ago


  • The Valve — Authority Authority: 542
    1 week ago

  • William says, "Theory is cool."


    William, Leah Marie, and John — Authority Authority: 136
    Literary theory has always intrigued me, and some of it simply stumps me. As I navigate the deep waters of Historical Phenomenology, a fairly recent development in the interpretation of early modern drama, I get more and more excited. This happens to be one of the theoretical approaches I am using in my ...
    1 week ago


  • The Valve — Authority Authority: 542
    2 weeks ago

  • Misc.


    Gerry Canavan — Authority Authority: 486
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Saturday Night Fever


    Gerry Canavan — Authority Authority: 486
    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: ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Happy Saturday


    Gerry Canavan — Authority Authority: 486
    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 ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Two non-fiction books that have impressed me lately


    Floating Life — Authority Authority: 427
     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 ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Aesthetics


    Political Cartel — Authority Authority: 128
    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 ...
    4 weeks ago

  • ABD, Hey Thats Me


    Gerry Canavan — Authority Authority: 486
    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 ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Weak theory


    Working notes — Authority Authority: 410
    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 ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Hindi speaking American professor to teach in Mumbai


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 729
    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 ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Paul Frys Theory Course


    Working notes — Authority Authority: 410
    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 ...
    5 weeks ago

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