By Sherman Dorn on July 19, 2005
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 […]
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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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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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