What a thirst it was: longing, excess and the genre-bending essay

Rachel Blau DuPlessis writes that the essay is restless, always a little too hungry, a little too thirsty (2006). Implicit in this statement is the fact that a good essay is full of desire and creates this response in readers too – building a thirst for more knowledge, for more emotion, for stimuli, satisfaction. Here the essay is unquenchable, undefinable and unsummarizable. This experimental essay talks about the practice and application of writing experimental essays and their capacity to be genre-bending, form-curious texts. Considering specific texts that explore artistic practice and/or, in their hybridity, bring image and text together in essential ways, the hybrid essay will emerge as a way of making, seeing, reading, interpreting and acquiring knowledge. By discussing intentional ambiguity, the unfamiliar familiar, knowledge in context, and the role of language and structure in the creation of presence, silence and absence in texts, this essay draws attention to the complications (and possibilities) of essays and their forms. The best essays create subtle, lively interactions between and within subjects, forms and languages that can howl and shape-shift in the final essay itself. These genre-bending essays can deepen and complicate the knowledge we make for ourselves – as we experience reverberations of meaning in the multiple readings each specific open text encourages. Included here is the writing and thinking of Anne Carson, Gertrude Stein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lyn Hejinian and others

Bostonia. Volume 3

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape

This paper proposes that we can reimagine insular literatures and medieval islescapes as commodious seas of cultural and intellectual loci that span time, culture, and text alike. By moving beyond the rhetoric of insular separation or connectivity, we can see that islands connect even when medieval minds saw separation. The essay focuses on the Brendan legend and the commodious cultural ‘sea of islands’ that it inhabits, a space that connects the modern reader to a history of other connections, fact to fancy, and the real and the imaginary. When sailing in this sea, Brendan meets Columbus, and the late medieval idea of a lost island spreads though space and time

Old School Catalog 1890-91, Annual Catalog

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Recommendations for the future

The workshop explored four major areas of concern to solar-terrestrial science. Looking across the discipline reports given previously, it is possible to find common threads that can contribute to the development of NASA's programmatic strategy for the solar-terrestrial sciences. The following areas are outlined: scientific balance; previously gathered information; imaging; impact of the space station and related platforms; vitality and relevance; and future studies

The Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: History of its Foundation, Description of the Building and of its Adaptability to Teaching Anatomy

A history of the foundation of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy, including a description of the building and 1912 facilities, museum, demonstrating rooms, and floor plans, as well as the dedication addresses of Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka and Professor Piersol. 30 pages.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/jeffersonhistorybooks/1003/thumbnail.jp

Hobbes's argument for the naturalness and necessity of colonisation

Towards the end of the second part of Leviathan, there is a short passage in which Hobbes describes a process of colonization and the reasons behind it. I explain this passage in terms of Hobbes's definition of freedom as the absence of external impediments tomotion and the role that he assigns to the passions in explaining human behaviour. On this basis, I argue that Hobbes implies that colonization is both natural and necessary. The willingness of some individuals to risk their lives in an attempt to free themselves from colonial power and Hobbes's account of the sovereign's role in the process of colonization will be shown, however, to indicate the possibility of an alternative conception of freedom and an alternative explanation of human behaviour, thereby introducing an element of contingency. Colonization turns out in this way not to be as natural and necessary as Hobbes makes it seem

Old School Catalog 1891-92, Annual Catalog

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Old School Catalog 1907-08, Chicago College of Dental Surgery

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Old School Catalog 1885-86, Annual Catalog

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