Pastora Pavón
26/04/2013
I am working a festival this weekend so I leave you with this. Vous-autres, bourgeois de la vie maigre: lisez votre Robert Boice et portez-vous bien; some of us have duende. Axé.
Al azar
26/04/2013
Aujourd’hui je trouverai: “Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Skinner, Lee. Hispanofila Volume: 132 (2001-05-01) p. 25-42. ISSN: 0018-2206. The IILI is having its conference in México, D.F. in June, 2014 which is ideal for me. That means I need another abstract. This is the place to fire my salvo beyond … More Al azar
Mtukudzi
25/04/2013
I will be part of this person’s gig and it will be happening by the time this post goes up. Eh toi, nous nous voyons en ville. Axé.
So twentieth century
25/04/2013
What Danny said about Doris’ book: In terms of its announced project, Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions turns to the canonical novels of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Through a synthesis of writings about sexuality, nationalism, family history, and allegory, Sommer develops a theory of a nineteenth-century “erotic code” in order to explain … More So twentieth century
Saldo: a peninsular post
25/04/2013
My students learned nothing from my Peninsular survey, I discern, but I learned. I should give this course as a course on the leyenda negra and the alleged problem of Spain. The final essay could request discussion of the terms in which Phillips and Phillips, in their book on Spain, seem to suggest that the … More Saldo: a peninsular post
Arithmetic
25/04/2013
If I have 75 students and I spend 25 hours a week grading, that is 20 minutes per student. A grader would net me 20 hours a week for research and writing. You see why people have things machine graded. You see also why the instructors, who teach up to 7 courses which means over … More Arithmetic
Incomprehensible
25/04/2013
I do not understand this well enough yet to say it comprehensibly, but it appears that the reason I am incomprehensible as a person is that I am not trying to advance against others in the way that is considered natural. The “natural” thing, it seems, is to assume that anything anyone achieves is meant … More Incomprehensible
Los pasos lejanos
24/04/2013
Mi padre duerme. Su semblante augusto figura un apacible corazón; está ahora tan dulce… si hay algo en él de amargo, seré yo. Hay soledad en el hogar; se reza; y no hay noticias de los hijos hoy. Mi padre se despierta, ausculta la huida a Egipto, el restañante adiós. Está ahora tan cerca; si … More Los pasos lejanos
Research Wednesday
24/04/2013
I am looking for negative reviews of Doris Sommer, Foundational Fictions. If I do not find more by using Web of Knowledge and the MLA Bibliography I will call a reference librarian. I have already found an interesting one by Nancy Vogeley, in Modern Philology 91:3 (February 1994): 390-394. Danny Anderson has a review essay … More Research Wednesday
The South really is different, and not in a good way…
24/04/2013
A person with any kind of authority assumes it means dictatorial power and cannot believe it if anyone stands up to them. That is the South for you, although when there is opposition it is particularly valiant. I am passing my committee role on to someone else and the committee chair is requiring a meeting between … More The South really is different, and not in a good way…
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