Forgive the lengthy quotations below. It will take a while to build up to Roland Barthes’s studium and punctum. (I explain my recent interest in allure here.) In
Month: May 2015
Reading Woolf: Sexual Politesse in Orlando (1928)
(Glance at this first.) From Chapter Four of Orlando (1928) (in which Orlando returns to England as a woman…): “Gentle creature,” cried the Archduchess, falling on one knee and
Reading Derrida: The Semantic Slide from the Lure to Allure (Of Grammatology)
In just a couple of weeks, I start teaching a summer course in Contemporary Lit at URI’s Kingston campus. I had a hard time deciding on a course theme
Reading Woolf and Waters: “A Sketch of the Past” (1939-40) and Fingersmith (2002)
From Woolf: As a child then, my days, just as they do now, contain a large proportion of this cotton wool [of daily life], this
Slow Reading (1.31): Deleuze’s DR (pp. 31-32)
The Road Thus Far, or What Do the Guides Say? What do other commentators make of Deleuze’s summary/critique of Aristotle? In his Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and
Sketching a Present 