Yesterday, South Dakota State University hosted “Day One” of The Space Between Society’s annual conference. The theme this year is “Staging the Space Between” (organized
Category: Art
Reading Aloud (#28): Richard Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes” (1947)
The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On water; it glides So from
Reading Aloud (#26): Thomas Hardy’s “I Looked Up from My Writing”
I Looked Up from My Writing I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing,
Reading Barthes: The Double Structure of Allure in Camera Lucida (1980)
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
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
Sketching a Present 