Northrop Frye, discussing the arc of Shakespeare’s plays, says something very profound about Shakespeare’s late “Romances,” like A Winter’s Tale and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. …as a dramatist, he [Shakespeare] reflects the priority of mythology to ideology…. Further,…
The Regression to the Primitive
Amit Majmudar
May 23, 2013
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Less Enjoyable Screen Reading and Other Apocalypses
M. Lynx Qualey
May 20, 2013
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Last week, the UK’s National Literacy Trust released results of a survey of 35,000 UK children. Most of the headline-pullouts felt unremarkable (“on-screen reading overtakes reading in print”; “Children say they prefer to read on screen”; “4 out of 10 now own…
Literature in Prison
M. Lynx Qualey
May 13, 2013
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Mostly, the trope is annoying: “Juvenile offenders study Russian literature” and goodness sakes alive, lookie here, these [insert stereotype] kids are really getting something out of all that “literary fluff”! It would be more surprising, by far, if some young…
MFA Day Job: Ideas for Your Possible Future
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
May 11, 2013
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A number of my conversations with writers this year have revolved around the difficulties of securing a job in the academic world. What happens if you’re a writer and can’t get an academic job? Or what if you have other…
Neureligion
Amit Majmudar
May 11, 2013
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There is very little (if any) variability in the brains of human beings regarding cortical localization. That is, the motor cortex responsible for, say, left arm movement, is reliably located on the right side of the brain, and in…
