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The Scriblerus Memoirs: Crisis on Infinite Campuses
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Crisis on Infinite Campuses. Clearly my blogging impulses have waned these last two years. Perhaps as the project upon which I've been working has developed, my willingness to share it has diminished; once I decided it was worth protecting, I decided to protect it. Protect it from what, you ask? Who are actually exploring new avenues and other options. But, it seems, they do so somewhat at their peril, and perhaps it's having spent the last year (two years? During the course of the proceedings, a convers...
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: October 2007
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Have a Shandean Halloween, everybody! Please carve the face of your ideal jack 'o lantern in the space provided. Others who are smarter and better read will be better able to answer the following question:. Why hasn't Sofia Western read Pamela. And this question, too:. Why hasn't Clarissa read Pamela. Maybe even this question:. Why hasn't Arabella read either? Why hasn't Miss Betsy Thoughtless read any of 'em? The novel, for all its formal realism and pretensions to representing a world sans. Fairies and...
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: June 2007
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Nostradamus Goes to the Bookshop. My roommate has a subscription to New York Magazine. Let's pick this apart. That gave the number some measure of rhetorical if not practical force (274). Which is not to say Johnson gave it any credit. I bring this up for no other reason than I found it interesting that fifty is the new hundred, at least according to this article. I quite wonder whether there would have been different answers for different periods. If Atonement. Another interesting thing at work here is ...
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: February 2009
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The Angel and the Algorithm(s). For this most part this post is about not having posted recently. It'll therefore be largely free of anything approaching in-depth analysis, discussion, quotation, or purposefulness. Also I want to finish it before Lost. I've spent the last few weeks bogged down by an examination of Paradise Lost. That I now feel fairly certain will end up being thoroughly redundant. A wiser scholar than I might say there's no shame in not having anything new to say about Paradise Lost.
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: September 2009
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By Force or Guile. We'll move right past the amount of time it's been since I last posted as it will only recall to me how much time has gone by since I've done anything the least bit substantive. I'm sure there's an easy way I could do this myself, but I'm too flustered to find it, and I want answers, so I'm asking you. I might soon put the question to the C-18L list as well, but for the moment I lack the nerve, and it's not really an 18th century question. We may with more successful hope resolve.
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: The Angel and the Algorithm(s)
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The Angel and the Algorithm(s). For this most part this post is about not having posted recently. It'll therefore be largely free of anything approaching in-depth analysis, discussion, quotation, or purposefulness. Also I want to finish it before Lost. I've spent the last few weeks bogged down by an examination of Paradise Lost. That I now feel fairly certain will end up being thoroughly redundant. A wiser scholar than I might say there's no shame in not having anything new to say about Paradise Lost.
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: May 2010
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Lev Grossman's recent article. On the form and function of recommendation engines draws distressingly close to the coda of my recently finished dissertation, and there's no doubt he's remembered his years as a Comp Lit PhD student at Yale. In an earlier post. The matters of taste and discernment of course ring rather a large bell in the addled brain of your average eighteenth-century scholar given what several authors of the time (especially Pope and Swift) perceived as a "deluge" of impolite or otherwis...
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: February 2008
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Austen hates a know-it-all. In delivering a decidedly off-the-cuff and mercifully perfunctory critique of what I am for the moment referring to as an accidental chapter of my so-called dissertation, one of my directors asked, in so many words, "what about Austen? By which she meant, how could I justify my argument that Sterne mocked the encyclopedical (a perilous neologism) projects of the Richardsonian and Fieldian novels with Tristram Shandy. Obviously Richardson and Fielding left out a great deal....
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: July 2008
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I had intended to use that phrase for a section of my chapter on encyclopedias, but it'll probably get folded in to some larger chunk with an equally inappropriate heading that someone with more sense than I have will eventually make me change. The last part of that sequence has thus far gone for far more than mere headings. Or "Great Mirror," which went unrivaled in size and scope until the mid-eighteenth century. And he did it in the thirteenth. But then there's the reader's part in all this. Wikip...
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The Scriblerus Memoirs: April 2010
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Crisis on Infinite Campuses. Clearly my blogging impulses have waned these last two years. Perhaps as the project upon which I've been working has developed, my willingness to share it has diminished; once I decided it was worth protecting, I decided to protect it. Protect it from what, you ask? Who are actually exploring new avenues and other options. But, it seems, they do so somewhat at their peril, and perhaps it's having spent the last year (two years? During the course of the proceedings, a convers...
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