…we play your requests, as The Constructivist knows.
Ben Wolfson’s asked for copies of my current reading for my upcoming qualifying exams in literature.
The exams are based on three lists and accompanying essays. The first list covers American and Continental Modernism; the second, “self-fashioning” from the Greeks all the way to American Transcendentalism; the third, philosophical and theoretical writing on selfhood and authenticity.
Modernism
Self-Fashioning and Western Culture
Philosophy and Theory
In other news, the filmosphere appears to have gotten back on its feet. One of the best absentee bloggers in the world, R. Sheehan, has unexpectedly returned to Terrible Beauty with a new post on Pan’s Labyrinth. The blog is still so freshly unwrapped that there’s no blogroll, but there is a whole lot of interesting thinking. After I saw PL, I wrote some quickie criticism and proposed a video game.
Petitpoussin has also been turning her attention to film criticism, with terrific posts on Clint Eastwood and masculinity, as well as on Speed and the American capitalist sublime.
Enjoy!
-Kugelmass
What a is a blogroll? It sounds like a computer ding-dong – but does it taste as good?
Mallomar maybe?
Come for the blogroll, stay for the cold leftover mashed potatos!
I love lists of books.
Blogrolls are like myspace. Not terribly revealing of who you are but necessary for internet functioning. Or not.
If blogrolls were a food, I would taste it as deliruim inducing turkey. On the sweet tip, I guess a froot loops rice krispie treat.
What I love is that this is turning into a food thread.
Maybe this is my inner grad student speaking, but to me, a blogroll tastes like the coleslaw in the back of the fridge that you forget about and then…ohhhh noooo.