This is someone I should study. I must examine his categorical rejection of “imitation,” particularly of European models — an articulation of 1840s US literary nationalism. His program for self-reliance is apparently obedience to higher law. “Plinlimmon’s snake oil,” someone said in reference to Emerson. Tell me about that. Plinlimmon is a character in Melville’s … More Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just bought two books I should not have, but I really want this as well. (My kingdom for a library — or for a university press bookstore one could stand and read in for hours.) Axé.
I would like this book and I think I should get hold of it. (I wish we had books in our own library.) But it would be very amusing to read. Axé.
I have not read this book, but should have done, and it is here. Axé.
Like the people who have to want to stop drinking and must make the decision themselves, or the people I know now who are going to have to decide, themselves, to learn to use certain software (or not), I feel I must decide to want to improve my experience at and of work. I always … More You have to want…
Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the … More Sobre la filología
I did not know this text. Axé.
A comienzos de 1923, Borges solicita al Decano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ricardo Rojas, su ingreso a esa casa de estudios. En su intento tardío (tenía 23 años) de participar del ámbito académico como alumno, además de adjuntar una serie de “ensayos estéticos y metafísicos” a través de los que aspira a … More JLB and don Américo
1/ Here is a good post on the Schuman-Potter argument. 2.1/ A low-level tenured person who feels in some ways like a contingent person trying to get a job and wondering if they can stay in the alleged “profession” (not everyone calls it that), I always wake up at first light, even if I then … More What I was thinking this morning
I never wrote anything like this before, but now I have, and I do not like it much, but I liked the book, and the text exists. Gene McCormick’s Lives of Passion: Edward and Antoinette (Rockford, Illinois: RWG Press, 2013), the author’s thirteenth book, is a series of interlocking prose poems that tell, in seventeen short pieces, … More A novella in pictures: Lives of Passion
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