He is mysterious because the books he has in WorldCat are not the same as those for sale on Amazon. I have never found as high a discrepancy between these two listings before; the lists hardly overlap and this is making me really wonder about WorldCat. The MLA Bibliography is yet again different. Then I … More Joan Ramón Resina
Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence Author(s): Christina Crosby Reviewed work(s): Source: College English, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Jul., 2003), pp. 626-645 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3594274. Accessed: 26/01/2013 22:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & … More More on Christina Crosby
For quite some time, unknown to most of the general public and even many doctors, researchers have used a variety of methods to test the serotonin (and other neurotransmitter) imbalance theory of depression. Research methods included comparing serotonin metabolites in depressed and nondepressed people, and depleting serotonin levels through a variety of means and then … More On why it is important to know people who are intellectually oriented and can evaluate research
Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything has eluded him may be restored him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without restoring it in a reconstituted unity; the promise that one day the subject — in the form of historical consciousness — will once … More Michel Foucault
I cut this sentence out of a document to make it shorter, but I like the sentence as the draft of an image and I would like to use it as material for fiction or art. The meanings of terms become unclear, the conversation bogs down, and the question is not answered. Axé.
I have looked some things up on psychoanalysis because these novels I am looking at lend themselves to it, because it might come back into fashion. I know very little of it really, and I did not realize Freud had written so much about anxiety (although of course he would have). My anxiety, of course, … More On psychoanalysis
Now that the renters are gone I have been sleeping in the better bedroom. I dreamed that the bed was on posts above the bayou, like a camp. It was spring with birds on eggs, alligators swimming and turtles jumping. When I woke up the water was high, almost high enough to sweep me away, … More I dream of fishing
Marthe Robert says the origin of the novel is the family romance, the Oedipal conflict. Terry Castle says its origin is in orphanhood. Isaacs’ María is an orphan. Orphans are cut off from their origins. Robert says the novel is not about the Foundling but about the Bastard; fairy tales are about foundlings. If I … More On orphans and origins
I have found and cleaned the text. I wrote it off the cuff in 1989 or 1990. I had read the novel so as to teach it, and laughed all the way through (you are supposed to cry) because it was so … overt. Then someone wanted to fill a conference slot in a related area, … More Let us see
I feel claustrophobic in Maringouin for good reason and I have financial claustrophobia, and both of these situations are real and not changeable by me — I have in fact tried too hard to adjust, if anything. I also get claustrophobia from being crowded, leaned on. But the root of claustrophobia is not having enough space … More An insight on claustrophobia
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