I was looking for Reynolds Price‘s email address at Duke to ask him for any written instructions or rubrics he gives his students for their gospels, and I found this.
What a loss.
On slow reading
- Thirteen views on slow reading by Dave Bonta, Teju Cole, John Miedema, Robert Ray, Satya Robyn, & Peter Stephens:
- The art of reading
- Bedtime poetry
- Conversations with poems
- Cross-referencing
- East Coker on the rebind
- How to mark a book
- How to read slowly
- The leisure of bygone readings
- Our sardonic Lord
- Poetry & sacred reading
- Reading like writers
- Slow reader
- Slow reading
Marginal
- On Grading like readers. I'm going over the following piece with my college comp students this week. I'm overly sanguine here about the possibility of objective readings even under the guise of a rubric, but teachers must play along. Some of you have given me your papers for me to critique ahead of the due date. You’ll probably discover that my ... - More: # - 10/24/2015
- On Prose to the Gettysburg Address’s Poetry. An American child's first penetration into the Gettysburg Address is that "fourscore and seven" means "eighty-seven." What else does it mean? A year ago, Adam Goodheart’s book 1861: The Civil War Awakening helped me unpack the opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In marking our nation’s birth at the moment the Declaration of Independence was ... - More: # - 12/30/2014
- On The Tempest. Baldwin says something very similar to what Langbaum says in one of my post’s epigraphs, but from a broader perspective. Langbaum: “. . . romance deals in marvelous events and solves its problems through metamorphoses and recognition scenes – through, in other words, transformations of perception.” Baldwin wouldn’t disagree, I don’t think, but he sees “metamorphoses and recognition” as ... - More: # - 12/26/2014
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Oh, that is sad. Reading it though I saw, to my surprise and pleasure that Dick Brodhead is now president of Duke. I knew him at Yale: he was one of those disguised bodhisattvas. Everyone who encountered him felt heeded. It’s nice to know someone like that can make it to such a position.