Friday Unreal though it seems to me, tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of this blog. To mark the occasion, I scrolled back through the archives to see how it has evolved over the course of the decade. Although there have been a few changes (more on those in a moment), for the most part it […]
Tag Archives: blogging
How I Make Literary Connections
Wednesday A friend the other day asked where my ideas come from, especially when I apply a passage from one century to incidents in another. Yesterday, for instance, I said that Trump confidant Roger Stone reminded me of a passage in Herman Melville’s Confidence Man. So how did that enter my head? To answer, let […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Confidence Man, Geoffrey Chaucer, Herman Melville, Restoration comedies, Twelfth Night, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Reflections on Internet Trolling
Internet trolling is not contributing to discourse but poisoning it.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "War Song of Dinas Vawr", Argument against Abolishing Christianity, Isaac Bickerstaff Papers, Jonathan Swift, Modest Proposal, Thomas Love Peacock Comments closed
Are Blogging Scholars a Step Forward?
Is academic blogging good or bad for blogging? A podcast run by my two sons discusses the issue.
In Defense of Arcane Scholarship
Disciplines may engage in arcane language but they provide the foundation out of which exciting insights emerge.
Why I Blog
Why I blog.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Michel de Montaigne, Pensees, Reader Response Theory Comments closed
Bloggers Confused Like Novelists of Old
Bloggers are facing confusion about rules similar to that faced by early novelists.
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Rasselas, a Bloglodyte’s Salvation
As a blogger, I sometimes spend excessive amounts of time in solitary contemplation. Samuel Johnson warns of the dangers of such a skewed perspective in his philosophic narrative “Rasselas.”
Confessions of an Addicted Bloglodyte
Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of this blog’s website, which gives me an opportunity to reflect upon what I have been doing these past 24 months. I’ve also come up with a label for myself: I am a bloglodyte.“Troglodyte,” which etymologically means cave dweller, has come to describe those who live their lives in seclusion. This is not a bad way of describing bloggers, who spend much of their lives in the caves of their laptops.
