- Welcome!
- I'm a litcrit junkie...
- How can we apply litcrit to writing?
- This could be fun!
- Fanfic as Reader Response in action
- What kinds of climaxes are there?
- Poetry is?
- Word Choice/Word Origin
- Philology- Tolkien and words
- Poet Savants
- Accuracy - or "Poetic" License?
- What is teaching/learning?
- Dialogue, Accents, Spelling and Grammar.
- Mimesis?
- Is language the brain's hypertext?
- Books to read
- PeeDee, Bravo -- come back!
- The Alan Sokal Affair
- If nobody reads you, are you a writer?
- George Orwell on language
- Pornography is pure reader response theory
- How to deal with culturally diverse mechanical devices in the future...
- Back to Lacan in a Turtleneck
- "I Love You Always," filled my eyes.
- Point de Capiton
- A Thread For Marshal McLuhan
- AI & Mike Sharples
- Uncanny Automata
- Who's writing this story, anyway?
- Shameless Phantom
- To whom do you write?
- Links with info about lit critters
- Critical Adventure
- The elusive and magical definition of Prose
- Writer's Block: what is it?
- Really stuck on Postmodernism
- Writing in a non-native language.
- Classical Plot: A non-Linguistic Construct
- Lowe Blow
- Structural Sublime
- The Swastika Discussion
- Non-Swastika non-discussion
- The Paradox of Discussion
- A Problem with Christian Plots
- Is there any subject beyond language?
- Syntactical Catastrophes
- Off Limits Subjects/Comments
- Wittgenstein: Aero-Pioneer
- A Beard of Mary Beards
- How does language affect culture?
- The metamorphosis of language
- Vision Serpent
- Now here's a thought.
- Starting from Nothing
- Interpersonal Communication vs. Written Communication
- Documenta 1, 1955
- What makes a linguist tick?
- Are audio-books still books?
- FOR SALE:NOKIA N95 AT JUST --------------------------$270usd
- Can mere words be treason?
- Vitruvius on the Grotesque
- Uptalk, or the High Rising Terminal
- Sketch Anglais
- Dialogue on the Ethics of Copyright
- Differences in grad school degrees
- Chaos reading theory?
- The use of Grow. And other pet peeves...
- Message boards -- the New Critic's worst nightmare
- Institutionalization of thought
- PhotoReading, or Speed Reading...
- Sign language
- Language shapes the brain
- Oliver Sacks on music and language
- Writing is good for your brain!
- How would you test a persons language ability?
- The line between reality and perception.
- Whatsa matta wit rhetoric?
- Modernized by Modernism
- can you tsk?
- Fine points of Theology
- Mysteries of Mystification
- Thought ya'll might be interested in this article:
- Visitation
- I don't think that's how the female anatomy works WARNING Frank discussion
- Words only in languages of limited diffusion
- Greenberg's 43 Universals
- The "existence" of characters beyond the written word
- Privileged language, Register, and Humor (split from "A Little Support" in TIO)
- The Real Charlie Brown
- Cowboys and Sewing Machines
- Loading the Language (and perhaps other language abuses)
- Spinoff from "The 'existence' of characters" Thread
- metafiction
- Is "I" plural or singular?
- Genre Signatures
- Art in Context
- Hypertext fiction
- Blog Speak
- There's no such thing as 'incorrect' English
- Writers Who Don't Like Other Writers?
- Dialogue Discussion/Debate: People don't talk like this.
- Is the passive voice really passive?
- The Unfolding Of Language
- The reading brain
- Mis-remembered????
- A lost distinction
- Philosophical Question
- The Great American Novel (Circa. 2050)
- Qinglish- Chinese version of English
- The Great Vowel Shift
- The benefits of art
- Critiquing fiction in terms of myth
- Scholarly journals on language/grammar
- Absolute Values in Liberal Arts
- Inventing Pamela
- Make literature into a science?
- The text has never been stable
- Flarf attack
- Pixels vs. papyrus
- Is Google Making Us Stoopid?
- First Person always untrustworthy?
- Romans had a twisted sense of humor?
- Puzzling Problems with Popper
- Marx-Hegel philosophy question
- Postmodernism and racial politics
- Opaque Femmes Fatales
- The Reader as a Transcendental Ego
- Alternative Ways of Representing Time in Narrative
- Structural analysis of myth or other fiction - recommend me some?
- Current Political Philosphy and Hobbes
- The Egyptian Connection
- What is eloquence?
- Fink, Zizek, the Real Subject
- Reading what's written
- Ever changing Political Correctness
- Is fiction inherently capitalist?
- Do Good & Evil exist outside of Human society?
- Structuralism's centenary
- White Horse Image - Elliot's Journey of the Magi.
- Collapse Into Silence: Pirsig,Tao and the 'Parmenides'
- where do ideas come from?
- "History is Philosophy teaching by examples"
- "Sonicky" words
- Just say No to Narnia
- Neoplatonic News from the Future
- 1934: Art off the Gold Standard
- Eaten by Robust Humanoids?
- Hubris and Self-Alienation
- Esperanto, anyone?
- On the nature of historical facts
- Eight Patterns Of Humor
- The book "God Wants You Dead"
- Archive Fever
- The Ingres of Existentialism
- Talking to yourself -- interior vs. exterior language
- Authors' papers in the digital age
- Hungry for Tea ???
- Hitler's library
- Are women more exclamatory? (!!!)
- The urge (compulsion?) to communicate (create fiction)
- Having Fun with Apples
- Can we eliminate the word--proverbial?
- History: Feminised or Feminist?
- More about how language influences thought
- Strunk and White.
- Language can save your Mind
- On contractions
- Is Tensed Time Real?
- Emotion Verbs (and Maori language)
- A provocative observation as regards POV:
- When Good Characters Do Bad Things
- Orwell on the decadence of language
- unintentionally offensive SLANG?
- Dr. Johnson wasn't nice
- Lecture series on Yale site
- Are students of ethics ethical?
- How reading affects the brain
- Word of the year
- Naming and Unnecessity
- When critics disagree
- Anti-Stratfordians vs Stradfordians -- Shakespeare studies' creationists
- Divining the meaning of texts experimentally
- The new book
- New book about Edward Said
- Edward De Bono- Teaching Thinking
- Bob Dylan read Guattari and Deleuze!
- Reverse-Engineering the Apocalypse
- Does language shape the way we think?
- Parody -- the highest form of criticism
- im in ur dictionaries verbing ur nounz
- Integrating Jack Vance
- Masculinist Literature
- NYT article on the "Words of the Year"
- Monster's Lair/Overcoming the Monster
- damnit which avatar to choose!
- Literature and the lost art of letter writing
- Cunieform/Akkadian to English dictionary complete
- REVIEW The Art of Time in Fiction
- How does Time Travel affect the language?
- A question for linguists
- Defining "Dialect"
- Educational Apartheid
- Yikes
- St. Crispin's Day
- Post-modern Fifth Column
- Khazak Space Pagentry
- Evolution of Short Story Titles
- Escape from Pollock with Color Fields
- Literally Metaphorical
- Anachronistic language and Downton Abbey
- What we talk about when we talk about death
- Things I don't really understand
- Question
- Rereading and the implications of trying to step in the same river twice
- Welcome your New Co-Mod!
- Thesis idea: Comparative Mythology, The Hero's Journey and the Evolution of Narrative
- Archetype v. Stereotype: Elliot Stabler
- An Extended Essay on Philosophy and the Corruption of the Individual?
- What the hell does this mean?
- Historians, Essayists, GRRM Fans....
- Up-gunning to Homer
- The Heroine's Journey
- Kafka's hundred year anniversary
- Noam
- Defenestrating Hume.
- On the Definition of Freedom
- The three stooges
- American Pie as tweeted by Chaucer
- the Battle of Bosworth is responsbile for the slant in all of Shakespeare's histories.
- Echoes, Cycles, Reflections
- Wrongly attributed statements: our democratic poetry
- Super Creative Thesaurus forum for the word "Creepy"
- Dialect map of the United States
- Nostalgia for a mythical past Eden of the humanities
- War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. (absence concepts)
- Love among the Ruins
- Shakespeare's plays as they were originally spoken
- Allegory and argument discussion from P&CE
- The Agreement
- Ahoy!
- Roman Theatre
- Bellows 1912 to UK
- In defense of oral tradition
- The originality of Philip Roth
- How many male novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
- If animals were "uplifted" to high intelligence, would they behave like humans?
- Philosophy major karaoke songs
- the life of the metaphorical
- history-as-artifice & historical apocrypha
- "No, totally."