Google nGrams: Quick Response to Mike O'Malley
This comment is awaiting moderation at The Aporetic's post on Google ngrams, "The Segway of Digital Searching," but I thought I'd get it up here quick, just so it may serve whatever function it may...
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The Writing on the Stalls: An Educational Project (?)
Photo Credit: greenshock, Flickr Who writes this sort of stuff? And why is there so much of it? And what does it really mean? This image, courtesy of Flickr user greenchock, is from the women's...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association and the History of...
Restricting Access to Violent Video Games The Supreme Court is currently deliberating in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.. At stake in the deliberations is the...
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1904 Thom's Directory of Dublin: Some Wet Blanketism
"The Dublin setting is built partly on data supplied by an exile's memory, but mainly on data from Thom's Dublin Directory, whither professors of literature, before discussing Ulysses, secretly wing...
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Visualizing "Wandering Rocks": Paper, Yarn, and Processing
"I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description."—James Joyce So, let's say you took Gabler's edition of Ulysses,...
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On Joyce's "Wandering Rocks"& Simultaneity
This is the first of (at least) two posts on Joyce, Ulysses, and simultaneity. Throughout Ulysses, moments of synchronization occur which allow the reader to align the narrated events within the...
View ArticleThe Epistemology of Stephen's Hamlet Reading
I’ve been enjoying the collective Ulysses read organized at Infinite Zombies (and here’s a great write-up about Infinite Zombies at knoxnews.com). My comments over there tend to swell to a length that...
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What You Can Learn from a Pirate Edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover
All images here are taken of from a copy Lady Chatterley's Lover, owned and housed by Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. The images here presented in no way infringe on the copyright...
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Update: Comstock's "Morals Versus Art"
Earlier I posted this PDF of Anthony Comstock's 1887 Morals Versus Art. Here you can find an HTML version which has been proofread. This HTML version is produced from a TEI version that I am currently...
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When David Foster Wallace Reviewed My Professor
The Spring 2001 issue of Rain Taxi features a review by David Foster Wallace of a volume of poems entitled The Best of "The Prose Poem" edited by Peter Johnson. The review is a rather minor piece of...
View ArticleAnthony Comstock, "Morals Versus Art"
Anthony Comstock is one of the figures who orbits just slightly beyond the primary concerns of my dissertation, alongside other fascinating, but lesser known, figures of literary history, like Samuel...
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Linux: A Love Story
This month Ubuntu will release version 10.04 (Ubuntu versions are released on a 6 month cycle; version numbers are [year].[month]), Lucid Lynx (they're also alliteratively named after animals). (A...
View ArticleTwo Gems from Pound's Letters...
Reading Ezra Pound's correspondence (which is now collected in a whole of slew of volumes, many dedicated to his correspondence with a particular figure) is always a fascinating, if frustrating,...
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Mining Obscenity III: Failure, with Visualizations
So, lately I've been writing about my interest in the changing semantics of the word bitch, trying to pin down when it went from a term meaning primarily "female dog" to being primarily an obscenity. I...
View ArticleMLA 09: Some Notes on Panels
In a great, collectively authored post at Profhacker, Janine Utell observes the comparative dearth of tweets concerning our shared field. "There was a silence, a whistling void where there should have...
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Mining Obscenity II: Google "Bitch"
[caption id="attachment_262" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Well, he made so much fuss that all the other dogs but Hence’s old bitch came in.—Fur News, 1918"][/caption] So, continuing from...
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"For an old bitch": Mining Obscenity
[caption id="attachment_243" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="The beginning of Ezra Pound\'s Canto 42."][/caption] I've been spending time tinkering, using a very basic question as an occasion...
View ArticleA Final, Belated, Infinite Summer Post
Needless to say, readers of Infinite Jest, spoilers follow. So it is over. My own posts on Infinite Jest sort of suddenly stopped more than a month ago, but I thought a final reckoning worthwhile. My...
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On Endnotes and Infinite Jest
[caption id="attachment_214" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image from flickr use nickdouglas / cc license"][/caption] I finished Infinite Jest about a week ago. (I proudly announced it on...
View ArticleT. S. Eliot on the 24 Hour News Cycle?
T. S. Eliot's politics are always a rather thorny matter. What are we to think of the politics of the man who once declared himself "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic...
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