June 30, 2018
Against the Single Effect
A common theory widely taught in creative writing classes is Edgar Allen Poe’s idea of the single effect, which argues that short stories should build towards producing one pre-conceived emotional […]
October 19, 2013
Betjeman’s Reverse Blazon: Assembling and Disassembling the Loved Body
John Betjeman’s “The Licorice Fields at Pontefract” is a curious thing. The first two lines go as follows: In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet* […]
September 23, 2013
Futurism Revisited: An Interview with Marjorie Perloff, Part I
[This interview, which will be published in parts, was preceded by an introduction; you can read that here.] The Kenyon Review: I was interested to learn that F. T. Marinetti was […]
November 28, 2012
Reading a Legible Reality: Barthes and the Infinite Text
While perusing the KR blog archives this past week, I came across a great post by Hilary Plum about the Occupy movement, social vicissitudes, and the trouble with the “us” […]