I've been arguing that literary scholars need better descriptions (far more detail) of the texts we deal with. We need these descriptions for all the canonical texts and for a useful sample of the others. (See the crowd sourcing section at the end of my post, Some example descriptions: two poems, a novella, two manga texts, and two films; also, various posts on citizen science.)
(1/3) Current uneasy relation between the need for public scholarship and maintaining scholarly standards (more generally: between the new
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(3/3) academic blogging: @TimHitchcock http://t.co/YCux5clN3r & @Jenny_L_Davis http://t.co/2uN3UXiYDI
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Very interesting piece on academic blogging: @RohanMaitzen http://t.co/X9vamKOHeM
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When she was my colleague at The Valve Rohan led group readings on Adam Bede and Villette (the links go to the first post in each series; there's no easy to capture the whole series in a single link).
(1/3) From the archive of scholars' convo on academic blogging/social media to accompany recent posts:
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(3/3) Has someone done the edition on academic blogging & social media? Seems an obvious play. Both methodological and practical value.
— Alan Liu (@alanyliu) July 18, 2014