君子不器
Bloomsburied in China “…The house of fiction has a million windows, Henry James wrote, but in China, the windows have long been shaded by the Writers’ Union, the literary agents of the Communist government. We begin to see more through these windows than just sexually liberated Chinese nymphets romping with Westerners in the bedroom, as…
“You ask what I think you should take special care to avoid: the crowd. You cannot yet trust yourself safely to it. I at least will admit my weakness; I never bring back the same character which I took from home. Something has been upset from the state of calm I had achieved: something of…
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nemfrog: Linyphia Marmorata makes a dome- shaped web supported by threads that extend up into the bushes two or three feet. The structure and habits of spiders. 1883.
New Modernist Studies: What’s Left of Political Formalism? | the minnesota review | Duke University Press Critique of the NMS with rebuttal from Puchner here: NMS a Response [too bad our library doesn’t subscribe] 🙁
“The Dude himself, one of the great characters of the modern cinema, is an assemblage who’s as closely defined by his void zones as by his traits; his shambling-slacker manner, an apparent parody of the American sixties, turns out to be its apotheosis. A dropout, a stoner, a hedonist without even the energy to pursue…
PMLA The New Modernist Studies (2008) Important discussion of changes in the way Modernism is being studied around the world today.