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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. Raquo; Infinite Index. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. I’m a little unclear on how that happened, but I could not be more appreciative. Eden M. Kennedy’s. Co-authored by Alice Bradley. And his essays have ...
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A diagram of nearly all. The characters in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest,. With connections and relations shown thereamong. — $25. 1 The wraith is not included because, Hamlet. References aside, the wraith never speaks and is lame. Two options to own! The images above are taken from the poster. I suggest downloading the PDF. In Brooklyn New York and I highly recommend using them for all your printing projects. This would basically cover the shipping cost. Or better yet, ask your local bookstor...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S
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January 09, 2009. The Fantasy World of High Chat: Hutchinsland. Some enjoyably wry reflections on Robert M. Hutchins and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions by Ed Engberg, Sr. Fellow Emeritus of the Center. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch. The Fantasy World of High Chat: Hutchinsland. The Basic Pro...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Greg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change Yours)
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Laquo; Mission Improbable. Greg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change Yours). Greg Carlisle is the author of Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. And an instructor of theater at Morehead State University. When my friend Brian handed me A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. And told me I had to read it, I immediately recognized the name of the author whose story “The Depressed Person” was featured in Harper’s. Without the daily inspir...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: April 2009
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April 03, 2009. The University of Chicago Chronicle announces. That the late Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who is among the University’s most celebrated faculty members, will “teach again” when tapes and transcripts of his courses are digitized and collected on a Web site to be built by the newly founded Leo Strauss Center. 8220;We consider these to be an extraordinary resource for the study of Strauss’ thought, and, more generally, of political philosophy and the intellectual history of the...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S
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November 14, 2008. Why We Lost the Great Books. Speaking in Charlotte, Notre Dame scholar Ralph McInerny discusses the classics and what went wrong. Jane Shaw, John William Pope Center For Higher Education Policy. November 10, 2008. Why do modern humanities professors hate the Western canon, the so-called Great Books that once defined a liberal arts education? It isn't just relativism (or, in McInerny's words, the idea that it's as important to teach Tarzan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). National G...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Matt Bucher: The Anxiety of Influence
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Raquo; Irony, It Has Happened To Me. Matt Bucher: The Anxiety of Influence. Matt Bucher is the administrator of the David Foster Wallace mailing list. And publisher of Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. He is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, runs a weblog. About writer Roberto Bolaño and the novel 2666. And has read Infinite Jest at least three times. And available in PDF here. Many of the details in. These influences will be familiar to the members of wallace-l.
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December 04, 2008. The Humanities Move Off Campus. As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere. Victor Davis Hanson City Journal - A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch. Been clicking around recently in:.
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A P O C A L O O P S I S
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October 06, 2011. Mark Edmundson (he of the famous 1997 Harpers essay. On the Uses of a Liberal Education As Lite Entertainment For Bored College Students. Has a new like-minded piece out: Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? Oxford American, The Education Issue, Aug. 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch.
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: July 2008
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July 30, 2008. The Burden of the Humanities. By Wilfred M. McClay. What does it mean to speak of the "burden" of the humanities? Links to this post. July 29, 2008. Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again. Links to this post. July 02, 2008. English Faculty Take Great Books, Learning to Three Prisons. Thanks to a recent partnership between Middle Tennessee State University, the Tennessee Department of Correction and the Great Books Foundation. Links to this post. Great Books of the We...
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