Roger Stritmatter | November 5, 2011
One of the truly great things about Wikipedia – a feature that redeems many of the perhaps unavoidable limitations of the project – is that it stores every revision of all its pages, including both entries and talk pages. There’s a paper trail – always (well, almost always….), a continuous sequence of the revision process, [...]
hewardwilkinson | October 31, 2011
We are pleased to offer another guest post from Dr. Heward Wilkinson. His previous post, on Professor Shapiro’s use of the concept of “imagination,” may be found here. -Ed Our modern canons of rational textual criticism slowly emerged during the roughly four centuries of what we call the Mediaeval Age, from around 1050 to 1450, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 26, 2011
“The typical literary man is no more able to examine this question dispassionately than a priest is to pass on objection to the doctrine of the atonement, hell, heaven: not a bit more able…” by Paul A. Nelson, MD* Born in West Hills, Long Island, May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman resided in Camden, New Jersey, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 24, 2011
Richard Waugaman and I have successfully proposed an authorship forum for the March 2012 Mid-Atlantic College English Association Meetings, which this year are focused on the theme of “Boundaries.” Here’s the proposal: The opening lines of King Lear announce a program involving not only ontology but also its conjunction with semantics. In the scene, truth [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 23, 2011
Hank Sanders, a regular on the two most active authorship Facebook pages, Edward de-Vere Shakespeare and Shakesvere, just posted an apt analysis of the ”state of the debate” as currently conducted in the comments sections of many blogs and online new commentaries about Anonymous, especially the fanatically dumb ones like Stephen Marche’s New York Times [...]
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