February 2012
5 posts
Yelp Comments for Marcella Durand's "Philadelphia...
Since it was nice out last Sunday, my boyfriend and I decided to check out Bartram’s Garden. The neighborhood didn’t really creep me out, but my boyfriend (who is from West Philly) kept insisting that it was the hood. Once you’re in the garden, though, it’s hard to remember that you’re in Philadelphia.—Natalie B
I live about six minutes away so I try to stop by...
Bartram's Garden - Images and Links for Marcella...
Map of Bartram’s Garden
Feral cats at Bartram’s Garden, (photo by Isaiah Thompson in Philadelphia Citypaper)
View of Philadelphia from Bartram’s Garden (photo by Teresa Dahlman at www.midatlanticmuseums.org)
Alternate view of Philadelphia from Bartram’s Garden (photo by user dmarino622 on virtualtourist.com)
Wedding at Bartram’s Garden (photo by Jeremy...
Essai of Valeria Tsygankova
I learned from you to. As a valid form of academia.
Though the objects of her reading are often academic, her reading differs both from understood “critical” forms and from what Warner has described as critical reading’s casual alternatives. As they are implied by the critical/uncritical binary offered by academia, these uncritical practices of reading in “identification, self-forgetfulness,...
Essai of Lily Applebaum
Says/does outline, final draft of “The Rejection of Closure” (1985) by Lyn Hejinian*
Paragraph One
Says: Writers are conflicted between being coherent and being open and free
Does: Introduces the author’s proposition
Paragraph Two
Says: Writers are constrained by form and the need to use language
Does: Further introduces the author’s proposition
Paragraph Three
Says: These...
Essai of Max McKenna
The Darcy Satire Criticized
When Harriet, in Rex Bellamy’s memoir-novel The Darcy Satire (2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987) asks why Darcy, after an adolescence of parting his hair on the left, suddenly begins parting it on the right, Darcy tells her it is nothing more than an accident that stuck. “I picked up the comb in the other hand, and I liked the results,” he tells her. “A little...