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Imagism

The Imagists wrote succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline in which an exact visual image made a total poetic statement. Imagism was a successor to the French Symbolist movement, but, whereas Symbolism had an affinity with music, Imagism … Continue reading

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Poe, Mallarme, and Symbolism

From “Mallerme, Stephane, and French Symbolism” by James A. Winders “Symbolism,” a suspiciously tidy label for a host of complex and contradicotry aesthetic tendencies, yokes together the successive attempts of Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, and Verlaine to redefine the poetic task, … Continue reading

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Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter

From John Allison’s section of “American Theory and Criticism” in the JHopkins GtLTC: While Emerson and the transcendentalists locate their inspirations and symbols in nature, Hawthorne locates his inspirations and symbols in texts. Texts link the present with the past … Continue reading

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A day in the life

I was just reading Steven Johnson’s blog and admiring his publicity schedule. I’m not impressed. Let me describe to you my last Wed. through Sunday. Wednesday evening I arrive home at 7pm from the McMaster Text Analysis Summit. Isabela is … Continue reading

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Text Analysis Summit

The Text Analysis Summit at McMaster has been great so far. I’ve put a lot of faces to names, got a great t-shirt, lost the great t-shirt, had the great t-shirt returned and have had bucos of interesting conversations. The … Continue reading

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Tanselle Reading

Mentionedon the “Zombie”: another read by Tanselle: Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Textual Criticism at the Millennium.” Studies in Bibliography 54 (2001): 2-81.

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WordHoard

From the people at WordHoard: WordHoard at the moment consists of two Java applications, WordHoard Reader and WordHoard Calculator, which you can download from At the moment WordHoard gives you access to lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged texts of Chaucer and … Continue reading

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SLSA Conference

Jess at Lies and Fish and Ed Chang are trying to get us Digerati at UMD fired up for a panel at the SLSA conference. First, I think we SHOULD go to this conference as a group and put UMD … Continue reading

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Copyright Resources

In our own backyard: Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (UMUC) Has she cornered the market on this URL or what? http://www.copyrightlaws.com/

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Modernism Stuff

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