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“soft sleep shall snare”: caught up in the language of poetry

Posted on March 7, 2017 by quicklytothepanopticon

One of my courses this semester is knee-deep in Victorian poetry. One way that I’ve been trying to dig in with my students as they try and tackle what is often very difficult work, is to focus the actual experience … Continue reading →

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You had me at “the empowerment of human beings as language-using creatures”

Posted on January 5, 2016 by quicklytothepanopticon

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 →

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