Monday is the Solstice. 8:30 or so and dusk can still be seen. Great. This summer I have a few projects. Some are trivial. Prep for Fall teaching, bone up some programming. Other things not so much. In May I decided to learn how to play the guitar. And 100 Days is pulsing like the [...]
February 2, 2010 – 7:44 pm
This semester (as time for me is broken into semesters) I’ll be working on taking a few documents through a multiplatform publishing work flow. The first objective will be take all the Leon stories from the 100 Days project and make them available on mobile, e-reader, and standard screen. The core technologies are HTML, XML, [...]
December 21, 2009 – 8:56 am
Critical message from the Otto team: OTTO, the Tunxis Art and Literary Journal, is seeking submissions from all members of the Tunxis community for the 2010 issue due out in April. Submit your work by December 31 via email to otto dot tunxis at gmail dot com. Submit literature (creative or expository) as a Word [...]
November 9, 2009 – 8:48 pm
Come to eLit Camp. It’s going to be very cool. E-Lit Camp is an informal weekend gathering for writers, artists, and programmers currently involved or interested in electronic literature. Work on your projects, give a presentation, collaborate, and learn from others. If you’re a writer, artist, journalist, coder, or some combination of the above, E-Lit [...]
October 22, 2009 – 9:31 am
Mark Bernstein writes, concerning William Chace’s article in The American Scholar and in reference to a relevant tweet on knowledge about books and, in addition, “whether there could be a single correct answer to any of the important questions that one might ask of an English professor: Harvard and Tufts and BU and Brown and [...]
George Landow concludes this about canons: Doing away with the canon leaves one not with freedom but with hundreds of thousands of undiscriminated and hence unnoticeable works, with works we cannot see or notice or read. We must therefore learn to live with them, appreciate them, benefit from them, but, above all, remain suspicious of [...]
December 18, 2008 – 8:32 pm
Dennis Jerz has interesting remarks on teaching literature in higher education: I am working on an opening lecture that introduces literary criticism not as a series of facts to memorize and names to drop, but as a way of studying the thinking process that forms our own world view. Since I teach alongside colleagues who [...]
December 8, 2008 – 7:57 pm
Dennis Jerz provides info from the Harvard Crimson on changes to Harvard English. The new program will be built around affinity groups: Arrivals, Diffusions, Poets, Shakespeares. The curriculum appears to provide lots of flexibility. But I wonder if this reflects some amount of fatigue.
It’s good to see Peter Taylor in the hands of Susan Gibb. One of my favorites. Also, tough talk developing here at Mary Ellen’s, following Susan Gibb’s link.
Dan Green writes: I’d have to say that the discipline of literary study has become more than unmoored and confused. I’m afraid that “the overt hostility to aesthetic questions in certain quarters,” as Jonathan puts it, has become the mainstream attitude among academic literary critics. Some writers might still be valued because they can be [...]
February 16, 2008 – 8:51 am
Congratulations go to Susan Gibb who’s been promoted to Director of the writing arts at the Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Connecticut. In this position she’ll be able to promote her interests in traditional and digital arts from the ground up, where, I believe, swells need to occur and are most valuable. The technical nature [...]
February 12, 2008 – 5:11 pm
Dan Ruby has created a Facebook group for the British Literature course. A few items have been added to the group. It may be an interesting way of keeping in contact. I even posted a forum item on potential exam questions. Thanks to Dan for his efforts. Students may join at will. In the effort [...]
January 23, 2008 – 9:01 pm
Dan Green poses interesting questions on the recent news over Vladamir Nabakov. Some context: In the Nabokov case, a manuscript the author felt should not be available will either be destroyed or be published against the author’s wishes. Whereas Carver agreed to the publication of the impure versions of his work (thus effectively claiming them [...]
January 22, 2008 – 6:03 am
This will be interesting to follow, a selective code application of CommentPress for use on Expressive Processing at Grand Text Auto, a subject that has recently come up in the development of Brimmer and Death here at this weblog. Expressive Processing is Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s latest.
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
Molski onto Trinity
Congratulations to Mary Ellen Molski. She has been accepted into Trinity. It’s been fun having her in class. At Trinity, in English, she will expand on her knowledge of Beowulf and the habits of writers. Hopefully someone at Trinity knows something about hypertext.