Category Archives: Books
Zombies in the Academy
My former colleague Sherry Truffin, now of Campbell University, has launched a new publication. Her latest essay appears in the anthology Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education. … Continue reading
Requiescat in Pace, Andrew Greeley
Guest post by Sheridan Lorraine Father Andrew Greeley – whose novels and essays I’ve read for years — and who helped me come to terms with my ideas about Christianity – … Continue reading
Contexts for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A Prezi: Contexts for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. If you’ve never viewed a Prezi before: 1. “Prezi” is short for “presentation” — think of it like a … Continue reading
Funniest Thing I’ve Read in Some Time…
Thank you, Michael Deacon. Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown – Telegraph.
The Sociopathology of Everyday Business
I’m posting a link here to my 2010 review of The University Against Itself for Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. The reviewed anthology is a collection of essays about the failed … Continue reading
Reading Bones of the Moon
When I first started drafting this blog, I’d just finished the third of three days teaching Jonathan Carroll’s Bones of the Moon. “Teaching” is perhaps a misleading word after the … Continue reading
William Blake’s Manuscripts: A Symposium
The schedule has now been set and registration is open for William Blake’s Manuscripts: A One-Day Symposium. This symposium will be held at the Huntington Library on June 7th, 2013, and … Continue reading
A Section Man’s Experience of The Catcher in the Rye
I’m linking here to an essay that I wrote for Salinger.org my first year of graduate school, maybe 13 years ago: “A Section Man’s Experience of The Catcher in the … Continue reading
Subverting the Mechanisms of Control…
I’m reposting here an article of mine from 2005: “Subverting the Mechanisms of Control: Baudrillard, The Matrix Trilogy, and the Future of Religion” from the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. … Continue reading
Rev. of Blake’s Poetry and Designs
I have published a review of the latest Norton edition of Blake’s works, Blake’s Poetry and Designs, to Zoamorphosis.com.
Rev. of Michael Phillips’s Edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
I’ve posted a review of Michael Phillips’s edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to Zoamorphosis.com.
Rev. of John H. Jones’s Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation
I’ve just posted a review of John H. Jones’s Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation to Zoamorphosis.com
Rev. of Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange
I’ve published a review of Sarah Haggarty’s Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange on Zoamorphosis.com.
Rev. of Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Book
I’ve published a review of Robert Essick’s and Mark Crosby’s Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Book at the Zoamorphosis 2.0 blog. The Zoamorphosis blog is a wonderful resource for all things … Continue reading
Creation Anxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
My latest addition to Text-Identity-Subjectivity: “Creation Anxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.”
Review of Rhian Williams’s The Poetry Toolkit
Rhian Williams, The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry (Continuum 2009) Rhian Williams’s The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry is a readable, well-organised, and highly accessible … Continue reading
Blake’s Aesthetic Theology
My latest addition to Text-Identity-Subjectivity: Blake’s Aesthetic Theology.
The Fortunes of Romantic Anti-Capitalism in William Blake’s Thel and Oothoon
I’ve recently uploaded the conference paper “The Fortunes of Romantic Anti-Capitalism in William Blake’s Thel and Oothoon” to Text-Identity-Subjectivity. It considers the relationships between capitalism, Romanticism, and gender in Blake’s … Continue reading
Picturing Language and the Language of Pictures in Blake’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy
“Picturing Language and the Language of Pictures in Blake’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy” is my first link in my Scalar e-Book Text, Identity, Subjectivity. The site is growing daily. … Continue reading
My New Scalar eBook
I’ve started a Scalar eBook — which is, essentially, a website that can be designed so that your pages follow multiple paths. I’m going to use it to post preliminary … Continue reading
At Babel.com and a New Review
I’ve had a long association with a website called The Tower of Babel. It’s published essays and such by me since the 1990s. But, regrettably, the site completely crashed recently … Continue reading
Nyctographs and Geniuses
From the Oxford English Dictionary: Your word for today is: nyctograph, n. nyctograph, n. Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈnɪktə(ʊ)grɑːf/, /ˈnɪktə(ʊ)graf/, U.S. /ˈnɪktoʊˌgræf/, /ˈnɪkdoʊˌgræf/ Etymology: < nycto- comb. form + -graph comb. form. Compare French nyctographe machine enabling the blind to write or the sighted to write … Continue reading
Introduction. . .
Food and Drink and Fatherhood is James Rovira’s personal blog, a central location for his publications, projects, interests, and observations. He has two other blogs devoted to his book projects, … Continue reading
What’s magical about used books…
I talked myself into going with my wife to a local Salvation Army thrift store yesterday. The usual routine is that she goes out and then I go out — … Continue reading
Jonathan Carroll’s Glass Soup
Jonathan Carroll’s White Apples and its follow up, Glass Soup, narrates a love affair between Vincent Ettrich and Isabelle Neukor. White Apples begins with Vincent Ettrich still moving through the … Continue reading
For Robert "Scottie" Bowman
An old listserve friend of mine (what’s a “listserve friend”? Someone you’ve conversed with on listserves for seven years but never met) passed away Nov. 24th: Robert “Scottie” Bowman (1928-2005). … Continue reading
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