Danish
12/01/2013
This is being shown in Maringuouin today. Axé.
Month: January 2013
Working on a structure
12/01/2013
Perhaps where I differ from Doris Sommer on the 19th century novel is that she sees the racial and cultural issues it engages as through the post-Vasconcelos, post-Freyre, official mestizaje offered as a solution to the question of social cohesio, and does not realize it. Or that she buys in too easily to the idea … More Working on a structure
Why my formation is different from that of many other people
11/01/2013
These are the main academic influences I have, I really do believe. I am not saying they are good. I am just saying I think these are the key influences for form of thought and that is why I am as I am. → Many modernists in Latin American literature nowadays do not have the … More Why my formation is different from that of many other people
Julia Cameron Crib Sheet
11/01/2013
My state of lucidity is extreme. I am irritated not to have been able to attain this for so long, but there it is. Anyway to shore it up I am taking notes on that Cameron book without reading it. This will be better since I can create my own flash cards as it were, … More Julia Cameron Crib Sheet
Marthe Robert
11/01/2013
What is the Romantic (and I guess the realist) novel about? Writing that I was able to remember how I was going to answer that question years ago: ORIGINS. I was going to use Marthe Robert’s book, now old, Roman d’origines / Origines du roman. And notice how in her other work, she also tolerates … More Marthe Robert
Michelle Clayton
10/01/2013
Now I need to come up with something about Marthe Robert and Doris Sommer and María and more. I was allowing myself to read a little more about Vallejo before going on, and I discovered a very, very important fact. Namely, the kind of surprise I get for not doing things and not keeping up … More Michelle Clayton
Thursday topics
10/01/2013
♦Lisa Cohen’s book. Apparently Esther Murphy’s father scorned the children because they would not be able to repeat his trajectory, having been born at a different time. The family climate was a “miasma of depression and fear of withdrawn favor.” (29) ♦ That entire issue of RQ where Hart’s article on Vallejo as optical illusion … More Thursday topics
On why, paradoxically, one MUST study Vallejo’s biography to study his poetry; also, further unraveling of my other book on fractured subjectivities
09/01/2013
I think of him as my contertulio but really he is one of my students. My interaction with him is somewhat different from interaction with other students, however, because usually the conversation is focused on what the student is doing, not on what I am. But with this student we end up talking more about … More On why, paradoxically, one MUST study Vallejo’s biography to study his poetry; also, further unraveling of my other book on fractured subjectivities
Mardi maigre
08/01/2013
I woke up this morning terrified of the students and faculty at Vichy State University, that is to say of many of them and the atmosphere they create, and how I let the poison get into my bones. I woke up thinking that people say that it is all in how you handle your reactions … More Mardi maigre
Are academic jobs stressful?
08/01/2013
“I wonder if the academic world is unusual in the extent to which the things for which people go into the field cease to be the things they most have to do.” That is Professor Susan in the comments on this post, which is the best post of all the posts on this matter. Her … More Are academic jobs stressful?
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