Bérubé on theory
Why I read Michael Bérubé’s blog: items like today’s, which discusses ostraninie (a Russian term which I’ve heard translated as “technique of the naive observer”) as a starting point for the last n decades of literary criticism and broader theory. One pithy bit: When theory works—when it leads you to see things about texts and […]
Table formatting
I’ve created a table-formatting tutorial because I don’t think another one exists to show how one formats academic paper tables in a way that is clean and easily readable, especially using symbols for statistical significance. Let me know what you think of it!
Pennsylvania investigations
Hiram Hover and Michael Bérubé chime in on House Resolution 177. More coverage: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette York Dispatch Lehigh Valley’s Morning Call Carlisle’s The Sentinel (the last a column by Francis Volpe) (noted by Rudolph in the comments on Bérubé’s blog
Ivan Tribble fisked
It looks like there has been an explosion of blog entries about the “Ivan Tribble” blogging column. Most of it is justifiably critical. The best title thus far goes to The Trouble with Tribble, by Timothy Burke. Profgrrrrl notes that she wouldn’t want to work in Tribble’s department, because she’s already had colleagues like him […]
Work horcruxes
By Sherman Dorn on July 19, 2005
This is going to be a fragmented week. Yesterday, I served part of my jury duty in the federal courthouse and finished an article review for a journal before I went to voir dire for a civil suit. I wasn’t chosen, so I’ll see if I need to head downtown again next Monday for another […]
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