Category Archives: Experimental Writing

sefer and the text

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Michael

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 →

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Check out Bazerman book sometime

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Michael

I think this might be interesting to read: Bazerman, C. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

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toward a focus

Posted on October 22, 2005 by Michael

Okay, so I’ve been thinking that with all my other work I have to do, that researching and diddling around in the larger issue is a bit too time-consuming at the moment, and that perhaps I should narrow down my … Continue reading →

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Cathy Acker

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Michael

Lisa mentioned in class Tuesday Cathy Acker’s book, a violent and perhaps pornographic text that is composed by plagiarizing other texts. Look into this sometime.

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Ross, Introduction to Tristram Shandy

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Michael

Ross, Ian Campbell. “Introduction.” The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Laurence Sterne. New York: Oxford UP, 1983. vii-xxiv. “This is a humorous performance, of which we are unable to convey an distinct ideas to our readers.“ – London … Continue reading →

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