The now deleted thread about where Helen Bishop went to college reminded me that both Betty and Midge Maisel went to Bryn Mawr. So I looked up their bios and they're both supposed to have been born in 1932. So they must have known each other in college! (Bryn Mawr is a small school.) I wonder if they ever ran into each other back when Don and Betty were still living in Manhattan.
Note: a different cat from the previously posted orange cat named Margo
NOTE: I'm an idiot. I didn't mean "The World in the Walls," I meant "The Writing Room." Sorry. I will fix it below but I can't edit the title.
I don't know if this has been pointed out before (well, I may have in an aside), but "The Writing Room" has strong similarities to the plot of one of my favorite films, French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's *Celine and Julie Go Boating.* Just take a look at the synopsis, if you don't mind spoilers. Start with the second paragraph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9line_and_Julie_Go_Boating
The main difference is that, in Celine and Julie, >!they do save the child!<. Anyway, its an amazing film, and especially if you like the set-up of "The Writing Room," I think you'll like it.
When did this start? I'm used to the end-of-the-year ones, but that's about all I need of people displaying their reading lists without any kind of commentary. If you're going to do it monthly, it just becomes spam. And, I can assure you, most people don't care. Your reading lists are not that interesting to anyone else but yourself. Can we please nip this trend in the bud? Because if it continues much longer I'm going to have to leave this sub -- or maybe just to block everyone who posts one.
I discovered them years ago on YT, where somebody had uploaded that EP. Forgot to save it, and I'd really like to listen to them again. Anyone know what band I'm talking about? They were quits obscure.
Sorry about the convoluted title. Please let me explain. I was thinking of Renaissance and Baroque emblem books. An emblem, in its visual form, is non-linear: it contains a set of iconographic elements that, when put together, make up the overall meaning of the emblem, but those elements do not have to be considered in a specific order. In poetry based on emblems, however, this is of necessity linearized, since the poem has a linear syntagm.
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In much modern theory of poetry, since at least the Imagists, there is at least an assumption that the poem functions partly non-linearly, or paragrammatically, as Kristeva would put it. The reader brings together bits of imagery or assonances that may be stanzas away from each other, etc., to fully process the poem's meaning and understand it as a whole.
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I'm wondering whether in the Renaissance, Baroque, or Neoclassical eras (let's say roughly 16th-18th century), especially based on an understanding of emblems, anyone formulated a similar understanding of poetry? Diderot's notion of the hieroglyph (in the *Lettre sur les sourds et les muets*) kind of comes close, but it's not exactly there.
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If you have any modern / contemporary suggestions that state explicitly such a non-linear theory of poetry, besides Kristeva, I'd appreciate those too. Thanks!
We just got an email about it. I wonder what this means for the college. Rick has been a great champion of the college, defending the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure sciences against the push to shift resources to the professional schools. Anyone know anything about Caroline Chick Jarrold, his interim replacement? Is she going to be more of a Whitten tool?
Hi all. I seem to have lost my glasses, and I'm leaving on vacation in just over a week. Are there places in town that give walk-in or same-day eye exams so I can get new glasses ASAP? Thanks.
Here is a fun piece. This was given to me by a colleague when she retired -- she'd had it rolled up in her office for decades. This was published in the Paris newspaper Libération in 1985, with instructions of when Christo would be on this very bridge (on the afternoon of the same day the piece appeared in the paper!) and you could go and have it signed. My colleague went, met him, and had it signed -- the hand-drawn signature is the one in marker on the bottom right.
Apparently that was the first appearance of the term "The New Weird." I looked into getting a copy of it, but it's ridiculously expensive, and later editions don't have MJH's introduction. I'm really curious about this initial definition of the (sub)genre. Does anyone know if the intro has been reprinted anywhere, or if it -- or even just the relevant passages -- is available anywhere online? Thanks.