by Christopher Long
June 16, 2012
Let me begin with a kind of provocation: however critical we humanists are of the ideals of authorial authority and genius, our practices of scholarship and the ways they gain legitimacy in the academy continue, even in this digital age, to be rooted in those outmoded 19th century ideals. Edgar Allan Poe gives voice to [...]
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by Christopher Long
May 16, 2012
“The mind,” Plutarch is said to have said, “is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” This pithy formulation seems to have been distilled at some point from Plutarch’s lecture, entitled On Listening to Lectures, in which, as the Loeb translation has it, he writes: For the mind does not require [...]
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