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Category Archives: Literature
I’m returning to this site after a long absence mostly as a place to post the reading list for my Senior Seminar course on The Gothic. I’ve had a few people on the Twitter machine request it, and I thought … Continue reading
“in your sphere”
By Chapman & Hall – Heritage Auction Galleries, Public Domain, Link Had Trotty dreamed? Or, are his joys and sorrows, and the actors in them, but a dream; himself a dream; the teller of this tale a dreamer, waking but … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Chirstmas, Holidays, New Year's Eve, Resolutions, Victorianism
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You had me at “the empowerment of human beings as language-using creatures”
I’ve just started reading Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. I saw Allen speak at Loyola University Maryland’s “Democracy and the Humanities Symposium” last September. Her presentation “On Participatory Readiness: Why … Continue reading
CFPs with upcoming deadlines
A couple of interesting CFPs with upcoming deadlines: The 35th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts- “Fantastic Empires” From space operas to medieval tales to seminal works of fantasy, imaginative fiction abounds in fabulous empires. ICFA 35 … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, conferences, fantasy, Pre-Raphelites
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Radiant Days
Books are astonishing things. I presented a paper on Oscar Wilde at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts back in March, focusing on fantasy and performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being … Continue reading
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