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The first of two lectures on meter for creative writing: poetry.
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Concerns about the governance and administration of higher education in the United States have in... more Concerns about the governance and administration of higher education in the United States have increasingly drawn the attention of trade journals such as The Chronicle of Higher Ed and national media outlets such as The New York Times. Those writing about this topic are usually concerned about the exploitation of graduate student labor, increasingly top-down management styles imposed upon faculty by college and university administration, and the development of " star " faculty systems which make high pay and resources available to a few faculty members while the majority of teaching is conducted by grossly underpaid contingent faculty. Blame for these and other changes and have often been laid at the feet of the corporatization of US higher education, a process by which US corporate-style business models are imposed upon non-profit educational institutions. The corporatization of US colleges and universities has sometimes resulted in dramatic acts of resistance, one of the most recent being the 2005 graduate student workers' strike at New York University. Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross's aptly titled The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace clearly, concisely, and chillingly documents the failed 2005-6 New York University graduate student worker strike, the events leading up to it, and the corporate-style university structures which made the strike necessary. Contributions to this edited anthology come from five tenured professors at NYU, ten NYU graduate students, three tenured professors and one graduate student from the CUNY system, two tenured professors from other New York City universities, seven professors from outside the New York City area, and one union representative. These students, professors, and the union representative contribute diverse viewpoints and areas of expertise to the discussion of the strike as well as being, in many cases, eyewitnesses of the events they describe. The University Against Itself is divided into three sections. The essays in Part 1, " Corporate University? " , describe the rise and effects of the corporate university model
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This paper examines masculinity in the film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey.
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A short review of Jonathan Carroll's novella Teaching the Dog to Read.
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A review of Damon Falke's collection of poems Notes on Paper.
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College Literature, 2008
The strengths of Jonathan Roberts's William Blake's Poetry largely depend upon the uses... more The strengths of Jonathan Roberts's William Blake's Poetry largely depend upon the uses to which it is put. The volume is Roberts's contribution to Continuum's Reader's Guides Series, which Continuum promotes as clear, concise and accessible introductions . . . ideal for ...
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College Literature, 2009
... Anthony Mandal and Brian Southam's The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe follows a simi... more ... Anthony Mandal and Brian Southam's The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe follows a similar reception history for Austen's novels in France ... While Claus Smidt and Mette Winge (1996), Bruce Kirmmse (1990), and Joakim Garff (2005) do register internal political fallout as a ...
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College Literature, 2009
Mary Lynn Johnson's and John E. Grant's update of their 1979 Norton critical edition of Blake's P... more Mary Lynn Johnson's and John E. Grant's update of their 1979 Norton critical edition of Blake's Poetry and Designs represents a significant step forward in the presentation of Blake's work to the reading public.
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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Oct 26, 2022
Mike Goode’s Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media is an... more Mike Goode’s Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media is an engaging and sophisticated extension of “Blakespotting,” his 2006 PMLA article in which he argues for texts’ “latent meaningfulness,” a latency that reveals their “potential energies in other times and places” (“Blakespotting” 771). Romantic Capabilities further theorizes that core idea by bringing together insights from media studies with insights from literary studies to discuss a text’s “behavior” as it moves forward from its time and place of origin, interpreting its later behavior as a sign of its latent potentials at the time of composition. For this reason, Goode’s analysis of a literary work’s future behavior differs from a reception history: reception histories usually emphasize human agency, what people do with texts in their afterlives, while Goode emphasizes the agency of the text, which is why he frames his discussion in terms of the text’s latency or potential energies. In other words, inherent features of the text present at the time of composition influence, at least to an extent, how the text behaves in the future, outside of its original context. Romantic Capabilities does not reduce literary studies to media studies, or media studies to literary studies, but “seeks to open Romantic studies and media studies out to one another in order to generate insights of interest to both fields” (5). This opening out includes a resistance to defining media behavior only in terms of the text’s new medium, a resistance that takes the form of a commitment to close reading: “This book is committed to the idea that techniques of close-reading language and form matter to any discussion of how a text behaves and how much its behavior in a particular case has to do with what it says” (14).
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Kathryn S. Freeman’s A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake, like S. Foster Damon’s A Blake Di... more Kathryn S. Freeman’s A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake, like S. Foster Damon’s A Blake Dictionary, is an encyclopedia of terms, works, characters, and figures relevant to Blake’s corpus, one especially useful to newcomers to Blake’s works who are trying to find their way through the labyrinth of his mythology. Supplements have been published since Damon’s time, including Alexander Gourlay’s “A Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake” in The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003), which he republished in expanded form on the William Blake Archive website, but nothing has appeared until now on the scale of the 181 entries Freeman has written. Her guide is neither as comprehensive as Damon’s dictionary nor limited only to entries strictly relevant to Blake’s cosmology, so it is perhaps best understood as her own selective updating of Damon’s entries and a correction of some omissions in Damon, such as a much-needed separate entry for Catherine Blake.
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Christianity and Literature, Mar 1, 2009
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Renascence, 2005
MODERN scholarship of Milton's Areopagitica is understandably perplexed on some points. The ... more MODERN scholarship of Milton's Areopagitica is understandably perplexed on some points. The tone of Milton's panegyric on freedom of speech resonates with current sensibilities on a number of levels, serving as an almost primal articulation of the reasons for freedom of ...
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