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Why Are People Always Having Sex With Dragons In Science Fiction?
MetaFilter —
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[ NSFW ] Why Are People Always Having Sex With Dragons In Science Fiction?20 hours ago -
Review of “The Reality Machine”
Beautiful Desolation —
Authority: 106
Well, what do you know: an early Christmas present. Corey Redekop is a terrific Canuck writer–his debut novel Shelf Monkey is anarchic, funny and viciously satirical. Thus, I was mighty chuffed when someone directed my attention to a review he’s just posted of my 1997 short story collection The Reality ...3 days ago -
Abolishing Christmas
Going against the current —
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MEMORANDUM No. 465371799199121SUBJECT: Abolition of Christmas and declaring it a null celebrationORIGIN: The Holy Office of the Holiest23rd December 2009______________________________________________________________________After a thorough discussion with all the concerned departments within the tiers of the Holy ...4 days ago -
Recalling “The Gospel of St. Nicholas”
Beautiful Desolation —
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It’s been two years now, and a lot of posts in that interval, so maybe more recent readers haven’t seen my review of the legendary Gospel of St. Nicholas . I love the notion of these “lost gospels” that keep cropping up. One of these days, I’m hoping they’ll uncover some indisputable ur-text that ...4 days ago -
Editor Reynolds Smith Retires
Duke University Press Log —
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Yesterday was longtime Executive Editor J. Reynolds Smiths last day here at Duke Press. He joined the Press in 1976 as a copy editor and since then has become one of the public faces of the Press. He aided in the transformation of Duke Press from a stodgy publisher of such tomes as Politics of Canadian Airport ...4 days ago -
A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 2
Nojaponisme —
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(Act One, Scene 1 can be found here .) Disclaimer: The following is for reference only. Its sole purpose is to give readers an overview of the history of modern Japanese literary criticism. I have avoided using all features common to the dramatic form, including plot, character development, word play, humor, ...5 days ago -
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose
ricklibrarian —
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Francine Prose has been reading and rereading Anne Franks Diary since she was a young girl. The devoted fan and prolific writer matured as a reader while rethinking what Anne Frank wrote and how she wrote. She recognized long ago that Anne Frank was consciously writing for the public, not just for herself as is ...5 days ago -
Just a Matter of Interpretation, Part II
A Feather Adrift —
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I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, and this influences me in many ways. It especially influences me as a woman, for in my youth and young adulthood, being a woman was a definite impediment. There were dozens of career choices that were not open to me. For instance, I could not aspire to be an airline pilot or a ...1 week ago -
I Just Want to Read.
Forest Street Kitchen —
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It’s possible that I am just too superficial and intellectually bankrupt to understand the necessity of taking literature apart as a means of understanding it. Reading a blog post about domestic violence in the “Twilight” books, and the “New Moon” movie in particular, I was cold-cocked by the statement ...1 week ago -
Austin Gets Rhemed
Matt Kundert's Pirsig Affliction —
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*NOTE* The footnote links wont work unless youre on the specific post page (by clicking on the title link). Youll have to excuse my crappy coding. ----- J. L. Austin occupies a curious place in the philosophical canon. On the one hand, he began practicing what came to be known as "ordinary-language philosophy," ...1 week ago -
Communication, Consecration and the Catholic Novel by Glenn Statile
Catholic Fiction —
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I just found, online, a copy of an article on theology, philosophy and the Catholic novel by Prof. Glenn Statile, a member of the Philosophy faculty of St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and a frequent contributor to the excellent Metanexus Insitute publication, The Global Spiral. The article, “Communication, ...1 week ago -
"Literature that has a particular resonance with someone has a vibrant, living quality": An interview with Stefanie Posavec
Harvard University Press Publicity Blog —
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When the affordable-original-print site 20x200 featured apiece based on The Work of Art in the Ageof Its Technological Reproducibility , we were both seduced andintrigued. Who was this Stefanie Posavec, and how had she transformed Benjamin’s most famousessay into an organic form (tree? anemone?) with spreading ...1 week ago -
It’s Just a Matter of Interpretation
A Feather Adrift —
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As many of you know, I’m a bit of a biblical amateur scholar. A very little bit of one I admit, but I read and study for pleasure and because I think it matters. My church is convinced that such study is important enough to the community at large that it fosters education through a generous scholarship program. ...1 week ago -
Gregory Woodss "Articulate Flesh" Post 2
Song of a Reformed Headhunter —
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This book of gay poetry criticism is divided into two sections: Themes and Variations. Under the rubric of Themes, Woods examines The Male Body, Men of War, and Childless Fathers. In the first, he describes from the literature of men who desire men the specific attractions associated with each year of adolescence. ...1 week ago -
Grief is Swift
freedarko.com —
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I cant lie, Im up to my nose in book. But Im trying. Maybe later this week.Speaking of book, heres my latest for the Vulture Reading Room, convoluted but completely from the gut. Some other real big ones on the way.Hold everything... Jonathan Bender comeback? With the Knicks, of course, but still hard to pull time ...1 week ago -
from Gregory Woodss "Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism & modern poetry"
Song of a Reformed Headhunter —
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The book begins with a white-hot description of the male body. "Three types of male physiques, " writes Woods, "three distinct ideals, occur in Western art: the adolescent pliancy of Narcissus, Apollos form but graceful maturity, and the potency of Heracles, tacitly poised on the verge of deterioration." He ...1 week ago -
When the last lecture has been delivered
Going against the current —
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I have not given much thought to this, but after delivering my last lecture for this year I became aware of the vulnerability of the entire intellectual pursuit and the people who are involved in this endeavor. I was standing in front of my class, my laptop beside me, talking about a topic of which [...]1 week ago -
What Good Can Masterpieces Do?
Blographia Literaria —
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In reading around for my paper on Franco Moretti, I ran across an article (sorry, subscription wall) by Jonathan Arac with the title "What Good Can Literary History Do?" It presents a number of questions about the place and purpose of literary history, but the following struck me squarely if only, I suppose, because ...1 week ago -
Gregory Woodss "A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition"
Song of a Reformed Headhunter —
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Gregory Woods is the Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University. In A History of Gay Literature , he does not so much as constitute an alternative literary tradition as show the centrality of gay writing (broadly defined) to "mainstream" literature. It is astonishing that so much of what we ...1 week ago -
Who is an American Black, Catholic or Jewish Writer?
Catholic Fiction —
Authority: 109
I’d like to share with my fellow readers and students of Catholic fiction an article I just bumped into online on the website of the American Studies Center at Nanzan University in Japan. Written by David R. Mayer of Nanzan University, the article is entitled, “Who is an American Black, Catholic or Jewish ...2 weeks ago
