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Patrick McEvoy-Halston's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the doc Clouded Visions in the group
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Joe Hoffman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Why do most academic publications not broaden knowledge? in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThere is a facile pessimistic answer, but everyone already thought of it so I’ll give the optimistic answer instead.
This is a temporary condition, caused by the tremendous expansion of productive capacity in the world’s economy. Because so few of us are needed to grow food and build houses now, we have a lot more scholars than we used to, and…[Read more]
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Marcel Aubron-Bülles's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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James Tauber's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Style icon in the discussion
John Updike on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoJohn Updike, style icon: https://www.gq.com/gallery/john-updike-style-icon
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Piers Anthony in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoNew group for studies of Piers Anthony. Exemplar of Winnicottian play in a field of often dark, dour and free movement suppressing (the ogres are going to eat you, not engage in actually-quite-interesting-once-you-get-used-to-them conversations with you). Liberal, Paul Krugman-admiring, vegan, Jimmy Carter-admiring, unappreciated giant of…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Gene Wolfe in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoNew group for studies of Gene Wolfe. Avant-garde. Phenomenological. Psychological/social interactionist. Let’s bring him into the MLA. https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/gene-wolfe/forum/
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the group
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Where hobbits live in Britain in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoA paper about hobbit names I wrote a couple of years ago. It is perhaps more fun than digital-humanities papers usually turn out to be.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic My collection of essays on Lord of the Rings in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoJust a notice that my collection of essays on Lord of the Rings is already up on the Commons. Overall about the book being more a prompt to not adventure, than a lead to doing so (and so as I found out, similar to Moorcock’s conception of it): http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nv66-zq22
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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