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Anyone for Theory?

Submitted by M. Gallagher on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 12:58pm

Anyone for Theory?

Or

Why We Like Uncle Tom's Cabin Better than Jameson

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From complexity to emergence and beyond ...

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 4:56pm

My most current extended writing on complexity, emergence, and beyond ... into a "hybrid" world involving both chance and intention. Recently published in the interdiscipinary journal Soundings (Volume 90, Issue 1/2, pp 301-323, 2007). Available as a Word file.

And assigned as a reading in a recent course. Which in turn triggered an essay by a student in that course, Alexandra Funk, making an interesting link to Mary Catherine Bateson's 1989 book Composing a Life. An excerpt from Alexandra's essay ...

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 4

This is the final set of webpapers for the new course on Emerging Genres offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. As the semester ends, students are writing here about what most interested them over the course of our conversations about genres, where they come from, where they go, what varieties of forms they take...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 3

This is the third set of webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. Three months into the semester, students are writing here, generally, about the genres we call "diary" and "autobiography," and specifically about a particular genre now emerging from that tradition, which we have just begun to call a "blog."

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 2

This is the second set of webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. Two months into the semester, students are writing here, generally, about the literary categories we call "genres," and specifically about a particular (prototypical?) romance, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. One month into the semester, students are writing here, most generally, about the human propensity to categorize; more specifically, about the literary categories we call "genres," and even more specifically about a particularly (prototypically novel?) object we've categorized as Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

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The Mysterious Reptile Brain

Submitted by heather on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 9:57am

A web search of the words “reptile behavior” will likely show you a number of less-than-stimulating explanations. For example, Encarta Encyclopedia’s section on reptile behavior exclusively discusses the reptilian inability to thermoregulate (1). A search for “reptile brain” may bring up a common view that mammalian brains contain “layers of more sophisticated reasoning” over a reptilian foundation (2). Essentially, our lack of understanding has caused us to pigeonhole these creatures to a simplistic and inferior place in relation to mammals, but how valid and conclusive are our assumptions? What is our evidence?

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Call Me Covered

Submitted by akeefe on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 5:48pm

Call Me Covered

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