April 24, 2018 Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews
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January 15, 2018

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Lynn Keller

 

On her book Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene

 

Tag: Literary Criticism

Cover Interview of October 30, 2017
Brooks E. Hefner On his book The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

Cover Interview of May 21, 2012
Nicholas D. Paige On his book Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime of the Novel

Cover Interview of May 01, 2012
Matthew Kaiser On his book The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept

Cover Interview of April 16, 2012
Jonathan Gottschall On his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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the science tag

Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.

Daryn Lehoux,
Interview of November 13, 2017




It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.

Christopher Rea,
Interview of October 26, 2016




 
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