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I am a mere painstaking borrower and grubworm of a poor devil of a sub-sub librarian...otherwise known as a PhD research student. This blog is a record of my experiences as a postgraduate in English Literature at a UK university, with a research interest in science and culture. When not staring at books, I stare down the viewfinder of my camera as a keen photographer. Often with less pleasure, I also blog on politics and the environment.

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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: Academic Blogs

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Just read an article about Scholars Who Blog. Perhaps the top literary blog is Erin O'Connor's Critical Mass, though oddly the list of blogs featured in the article seemed skewed away from traditional humanities intellectuals and towards sociologists. More obvious was the emphasis on U.S. based academics. Perhaps those in the technologically conservative U.K. have yet to cotton on to the power of the blogging phenomenon, though with the lecturers' dispute rapidly degenerating into civil war there should be more than enough to comment on.

A more comprehensive list of scholarly blogs is maintained at Rhetoricia; the best annotated guide to weblogs on general literary topics is at The Complete Review.

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