The questions you raise re: difficult language and postcolonial theory really resonate with me, though in the context of Coleridge studies. Writing on Coleridge, I’ve been struggling–and […]
Lindsey, this reading actually reminded me of Miller’s work on Dickinson, too! Miller, if memory serves, talks in part about Dickinson’s fascicles and how she often composed poems that were intended to be read […]
Hi Austen.
It does seem like the space of the page, in the example of the Felicia Hemans book of poems for instance, exists somewhere between the private and public spheres. My first instinct is to think of […]
YES. THIS EXACTLY. “I’m wondering, however, if at this moment we as an academic community should be thinking hard about the ways that people of color and other marginalized groups are systematically […]
I completely agree with you that open access could be an important step in dismantling structures of racist and classist oppression, and that this would be a very good thing! I think that our purpose as academics […]
I can see your point that offering money for review seems somewhat antithetical to community building. I wonder, though, if it might sit better if we weren’t talking about direct monetary […]
Yes, I was attempting to make the point that I find the idea of incentivizing peer review (or the participation in any such kind of intellectual community) to be distasteful because of the absence […]
Lindsay, your discussion of the simulacra reminds me of the bit in the bibliographic description about how there is now some confusion about how many copies of the work exist, and how many different editions there […]
That’s a really good question. I sort of assumed that the timing of the scroll was intentional and chosen by Gibson, but I don’t know! The slowness does seem to emphasize the poem’s elegiac tone.
I started to watch the poem’s emulation on a modern computer, and was struck by how slowly it scrolled. Something I have always liked about poetry is how you have to read it slowly to get much out of it. I think […]
I’m similarly excited about the points that you raise, and I couldn’t agree more that opening up our mechanisms of peer review to include more interdisciplinary cross-talk could save us from a lot […]
Christina and Elissa, I agree with you that some of Fitzpatrick’s suggestions re: academic publishing don’t seem feasible given the constraints of the marketplace.
Christina, I agree with you that at times, Fitzpatrick did seem to make some suggestions that seem unlikely to be implemented. For instance, I found her suggestion that each university should have a press and be […]
Iris, what an interesting way to engage with Fitzpatrick’s book! I agree that poetry seems like a very natural group to benefit from digital community, because of the generative nature of poetry that you mention. […]
