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Yasmin Solomonescu
Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]
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Jesse Mirotznik
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Carolina González
Esperanto, Klingon, Na’vi … these are examples of invented or constructed languages (conlangs for short). Unlike ‘natural’ languages such as English, Swahili, or Navajo, which arise and change organically, conlangs are consciously created; Esperanto by Ludwik L. Zamenhof, Klingon by Marc Okrand, Na’vi by Paul Frommer. Like natural languages, many conlangs boast rich vocabularies in […]
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Hugo Frey, Jan Baetens, Fabrice Leroy
What is the American Graphic Novel? Why is it important to study its form, history, and content, and how should one approach this endeavor while opening new ground for the examination of graphic narrative in general? These are some of the key questions addressed in this collection that brings together the best specialists in the […]
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Elizabeth K. Helsinger
What is a conversation? And why should conversations matter to poetry? (1) ‘They found you out?’ ‘Not they’. ‘Well—after all– What know we of the secret of a man?” (2) ‘No more wine? Then we’ll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i’ faith!’ (3) ‘But do […]
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Sarah Burton, Jem Poster
Writers looking for guidance as they embark on their first novel or short story will often come across neat formulations – little nuggets of advice that can be easily swallowed: ‘Write what you know’; ‘Show, don’t tell’. Too easily swallowed, perhaps. One of the reasons we wrote The Book You Need to Read to […]
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Vera J. Camden
Since at least the 1980’s, any university student who wanted to learn about Freud or psychoanalysis would not be directed to departments of psychology, nor to psychiatry, but would instead be ushered to the English department. The irony of this circumstance is, of course, that such guidance returns the student to the origins of psychoanalysis. […]
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Molly G. Yarn
If you look at the title page of my new book, Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’: A New History of the Shakespearean Text, you might notice that there’s something missing – the space beneath my name is blank, an empty void where, usually, you would see an author’s institutional affiliation. In the three years since I submitted […]
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Yasmin Solomonescu
Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]
Read More
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Jesse Mirotznik
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Carolina González
Esperanto, Klingon, Na’vi … these are examples of invented or constructed languages (conlangs for short). Unlike ‘natural’ languages such as English, Swahili, or Navajo, which arise and change organically, conlangs are consciously created; Esperanto by Ludwik L. Zamenhof, Klingon by Marc Okrand, Na’vi by Paul Frommer. Like natural languages, many conlangs boast rich vocabularies in […]
Read More
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Hugo Frey, Jan Baetens, Fabrice Leroy
What is the American Graphic Novel? Why is it important to study its form, history, and content, and how should one approach this endeavor while opening new ground for the examination of graphic narrative in general? These are some of the key questions addressed in this collection that brings together the best specialists in the […]
Read More
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Elizabeth K. Helsinger
What is a conversation? And why should conversations matter to poetry? (1) ‘They found you out?’ ‘Not they’. ‘Well—after all– What know we of the secret of a man?” (2) ‘No more wine? Then we’ll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i’ faith!’ (3) ‘But do […]
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Sarah Burton, Jem Poster
Writers looking for guidance as they embark on their first novel or short story will often come across neat formulations – little nuggets of advice that can be easily swallowed: ‘Write what you know’; ‘Show, don’t tell’. Too easily swallowed, perhaps. One of the reasons we wrote The Book You Need to Read to […]
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Vera J. Camden
Since at least the 1980’s, any university student who wanted to learn about Freud or psychoanalysis would not be directed to departments of psychology, nor to psychiatry, but would instead be ushered to the English department. The irony of this circumstance is, of course, that such guidance returns the student to the origins of psychoanalysis. […]
Read More
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Molly G. Yarn
If you look at the title page of my new book, Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’: A New History of the Shakespearean Text, you might notice that there’s something missing – the space beneath my name is blank, an empty void where, usually, you would see an author’s institutional affiliation. In the three years since I submitted […]
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