Words like Sand & Turbulent Stories: Readers’ Experience of Shifting Narrative
Electronic text, especially text on the web in HTML form, has fundamentally changed our understanding of the ‘printed word’. On the web, text can change constantly and readers do not have the same surety that, like the words they read yesterday in a book, they will be the same words today. Of course, the meaning […]
The Things that Grow in a Vacuum
I have recently had a friendship come apart. It died from neglect and I admit complicity in its demise. I get too focused on things. I don’t water the flowers as much as I should. I tend to assume that, once I have had a meeting of minds with someone and a level of affection […]
I Sing to the Body Electric – Persona in Motion
It is 7:30 am. I wake up, make my way downstairs and lean sleepily against the counter as I wait for my coffee. Then, sitting down to my laptop, I open it. Sweetly, accommodatingly, it connects to the web; I open up Twitter and say my good mornings. I am become Remittance Girl. Of course, […]
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory – Weinsheimer, Joel – Yale University Press
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory – Weinsheimer, Joel – Yale University Press. Book lust.
3-Minute Thesis Competition
For those of you interested in following along with my PhD adventure, I decided to participate in a seminar that poses a 3-Minute PhD Thesis challenge. Basically, it’s a sort of ‘sell your idea’ in 3 minutes thing. This is what I have come up with. Tweeted Wednesday, October 27, 2010 in 140 char chunks: […]
How We Read
It’s my intention to try and document the journey of my way towards a PhD as transparently as possible. So amidst the pieces of fiction I post, you’re going to see the occasional essay dealing with subjects related to my focus. If you’re only here for the erotica, you might want to skip these. If […]