The Year in Summary
My contribution to the year-in-review meme:
Jan 13: According to Roger Lovegrove, former director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Tudors nearly hunted hedgehogs to extinction because
‘[t]he hedgehog was subjected to wholesale persecution because of the erroneous belief that it sucked milk from the teats of recumbent cows at night,’ he said.
Feb 3: Nyíri, J.C. “Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Secondary Orality.”
March 6: A few weeks ago I thought to myself that once the dissertation’s done I ought to look into starting an H-Net memory discussion network.
April 24: I’ve never really liked Superman, so much so that I’ve never had a desire to see any of the Superman movies.
May 6: During the WPA party at last December’s MLA, I found myself in the presence of a Viking enthusiast.
June 13: Amazon now offers statistics on select texts.
July 2: I meant to post this some time ago: the Bayeux Tapestry animated.
Aug 9: A week or so ago, I stumbled upon the Keywords of Media Theory Glossary, which reminds me of the Visual Thesaurus.
Sept 5: Having covered a number of definitions of rhetoric as a preface to study of the history of rhetoric, I asked the students in the Rhetorical History class to pick a short text and discuss it rhetorically.
Oct 12: Surely, dear readers, the question of whether or not I might use a swear word on this blog has crossed your mind.
Nov 2: Here are the four handouts for the GEA Abstract Workshop, 2 November 2007:
Dec 2: The CFP for Computers and Writing 2008 is up.
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