About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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we’re all cops in waiting
We’re all presidents We’re all congressmen We’re all cops In waiting. We’re the workers of the world. (Against Me, “Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious“) When I hear this song, I am reminded of what Foucault wrote about the origins of … Continue reading
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Elbow’s “Music of Form”
Elbow, Peter. “The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization in Writing.“ CCC 57.4 (June 2006): 620-666. In this essay Elbow proposes that instead of thinking about organization in terms of space, we instead think of it in terms of time. This … Continue reading
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sefer and the text
From Robert Alter’s “To the Reader” for his translation of Genesis: The biblical conception of a book was clearly far more open-ended than any notion current in our own culture, with it assumptions of known authorship and legal copyright. The … Continue reading
Our thesis writing group…
My fellow MA students Sarah G, Marieke, Michelle, and Sarah B and I are meeting once a week to go over each other’s writing and to motivate each other for our theses (or writing sample, in SG’s case). This is … Continue reading
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some last thoughts from Uptaught
I just finished reading Uptaught. A few excerpts and thoughts: MULTIPLE CHOICE The student looks at the test and says, “Dammit! c is right and b is right, but it says up aove there’s only one right answer!” It may … Continue reading
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