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This blog started as a record of my postgraduate life, as I did a PhD in English Literature at a UK University. Now teaching English part-time at two universities, I still comment on university life, whilst also keeping a Daily Diary of my reading.

Naturally, this blog reflects my interest in literature, and my research in science and culture. When not staring at books, I look down the viewfinder of my camera as a photographer. I also blog on politics and the environment.

This blog is written in a personal capacity, and any opinions or ideas expressed do not necessarily reflect those of any institutions or organisations to which I am affiliated.

You can find out more about me on the About This Site page.

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Online Text Databases and the Literary Canon

Electronic texts can disguise the categorical markers found in their physical counterparts, eliminating many of the paratextual features which position a work within a particular tradition of authorship and readership and enabling the new reader to approach with fewer preconceptions: with the bland egalitarianism of vanilla plain text, there is no such thing as a popular edition or a prestige hardback.

Postgraduate Diary: From the Lighthouse

Monday, October 17, 2005

With some long-term projects - my MA dissertation on illness and the nineteenth-century short story, for example - you see a clear and small prick of light towards which you are tunnelling, and the task is to fumble around in the dark and dust of the archives and libraries to reach it. With this PhD, however, I feel like I am standing in a large, windowed room like the top of a lighthouse with ideas streaming in like light from all sides, with a full circle of limitless horizons. My first task is to run around and frantically close some blinds, limit the directions in which I could turn, making the brightness that at the moment is swamping me into a smaller, narrower beam of light towards which I can begin to tread.

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