Academics are sometimes seen as gatekeeping elitists. But the people who say this often don't even have PhDs
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Academics are sometimes seen as gatekeeping elitists. But the people who say this often don't even have PhDs
You're right to push back on that. Murdering an elderly pawnbroker does raise ethical concerns. But the fact you are considering it suggests you might not be bound by the rules of conventional morality
Ever since I was a small boy I knew I wanted to complicate a dominant narrative in my field
This only works for brodernism
An MFA will never prepare you to become a writer. To become a writer you must first be raised on the Yorkshire moors with your equally creative siblings, with whom you write a series of interconnected fantasy narratives
When Akira Kurosawa made Rashomon, he did not have the technology to tell the story from the perspective of an omniscient observer. Now, thanks to AI, we can see the narrative as it really happened
Great literature is universal. Campus novels for example invariably capture the essence of the human condition, especially when they are about the English department
Barbie is actually Frankenstein
Margot Robbie is actually working her way chronologically through the c19th Gothic Canon. Inanimate object comes to life (Frankenstein). Now Wuthering Heights. Next will be a gender swapped Picture of Dorian Gray
Happy for the successful athletes but precious metals symbolise humanity's fall into a world of toil and avarice. Far better in my view to reward winners with laurel wreaths, as in the pastoral golden age
It is not enough for a close reading of a work of literature to eschew biographical and contextual details. You should also avoid understanding the text or even reading it, in order to focus purely on its form
For years I have been honing a completely new writing style based on rhetorical questions, em dashes and a high degree of obsequiousness. I think people are really going to like it
At long last our Special Issue on 'The Modernist Face in/as World Literature' is now out in Journal of World Literature, edited by Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis) and me!
Our Introduction is open access here: brill.com/view/journal...
Explaining the bourgeoisie to an American: imagine a burgher
Respect your "boundaries"? Bro maybe you should read up on a little concept called the pharmakon. Every limit depends on the possibility of transgression
Claude is actually short for Claude Lévi-Strauss because its code depends on binary oppositions
The joint @AustModernist & MSIA Conference will be held in Adelaide on 19-21 November, on the theme "Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication." Further details at the link below. Send us your abstracts! amsn.org.au/amsn-confere...
Incredible
I was the academic consultant on Wuthering Heights responsible for ensuring that the film was faithful to the book. I haven't read it myself but I think we did a great job
It's great that coders are so productive now. Soon we will be living in a technological utopia *Google books search for Hamlet returns no hits*
Instead of just outright banning killer robots in the classroom, we should be having discussions about the *ethical use* of killer robots
Getting jump scared when the narrator says "dear reader"
Searching "if I may" in the Epstein files to find all the academics
Hearing that Matt Damon has interpreted "polytropos" to mean "complicated" rather than "man of twists and turns". Woke Hollywood strikes again
"I identify with the main character" no. Characters are a fantasy propagated by big realism to distract you from the novel's form. Wake up
(relatable lecturer voice) and in this scene it is simply not clocking to the wedding guest that the ancient mariner is standing on business
I have a very particular set of skills *close reads ransom note*
I reviewed Kristin Grogan's brilliant new book _Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work_ for The Space Between
scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...
Ever since I started writing this application, I have been passionate about the prospect of being awarded a fellowship