Werner Sollors
06/10/2013
This is apparently the Sollors book in which the ur-story of plaçage is traced. I need it and I need all the Sollors books. Axé.
Category: What Is A Scholar?
Sobre la ironía
06/10/2013
“Don’t be a professor, because it will not be about creating nice lower-division Spanish classes,” I was always told. “I know,” I always said, “that is why I am going on to the Ph.D.” But in my real life, being a professor is largely about doing that, and in poor situations por más señas. The … More Sobre la ironía
Present
03/10/2013
This conference is much less than world-shaking, but the venue is beautiful and nearby, so we are here. What I learned by presenting this paper, which ongoing research indicates is not original insofar as others have already made many of my points: these ideas are still new, and controversial to most people. This means that … More Present
Traces of the language wars
02/10/2013
I do not have time to write this out but want to remember. Reading a summary of Van Patten’s SLA methodology; realizing how deep it is, and that you have to engage both intellectually and emotionally to use it. The non-native speakers in our program like Van Patten but the native speakers do not, preferring … More Traces of the language wars
On the question of time, and Range of Light
02/10/2013
Now that I have spent 44 days in a non-depressed state — I awoke August 17 to discover it was gone, and knowing it would stay gone, as in fact it has done — I can certify that it is not a question of time. I have more things to do than can be done … More On the question of time, and Range of Light
That introduction to literature
01/10/2013
I Cortázar and “Viaje a la semilla” would be other stories to read; I read these in this course, which shows that it was avant-garde when I took it. I could make this iteration cohesive around a theme: stories of love and death. That would fit, if loosely, for almost all the writers I am … More That introduction to literature
“Precision interests me to the point of obsession”
29/09/2013
Vallejo’s 1931 interview has been translated. Part of Hart’s biography is visible as a Google Book. I need an excuse to go to Paris. Axé.
Comentarios de la semana
29/09/2013
Saturday: “Our university is an insular place, and it gets moreso each year.” (Tenured faculty, sciences) Friday: “That place where we work has very little to do with anything academic.” (Instructor, humanities) There also appears to be discrimination in the are of green cards: the University pays the cost for engineers, but not for others. … More Comentarios de la semana
Ay, que non era
28/09/2013
What we sang in Elemental 1B, Liceo Serrano, Madrid. ¡Ay, que non era! Mas ¡ay, que non hay! ¡ay, que non hay quien de mi pena se duela! Madre, la mi madre, el mi lindo amigo, moricos de allende lo llevan cativo, cadenas de oro, candado morisco. ¡Ay, que non era! Mas ¡ay, que non … More Ay, que non era
Virginia Woolf
24/09/2013
The moment we single out and emphasize the suggestions as we have done here they become unreal; and we, too, become unreal — specialists, word mongers, phrase finders, not readers. In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the … More Virginia Woolf
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