“I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life”: On the edge of dissipation, Mind and body torn and bruised, He wrote, and feared: “Steam in all its applications, Light getting under harness as a slave for man, Powers from heaven descending upon education And accelerations of the …
Monthly Archives: March 2009
How to read
(or, being on the edge of something) for anything with “textual” qualities first identify a movement, an exchange of meaning, between the literary and the real (this is blatant disciplinary imperialism) think of it as “poetics of culture”–meaning, in other words, is a relationship (Surprise! meaning is only (barely) graspable, a little wispy watch for …
