Research Exercise 6

This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s letters. You will also develop your skills in comparing two editions of a text, and in drawing conclusions about the significance of the changes and discrepancies you find.

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Research Exercise 6

This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s letters. You will also develop your skills in comparing two editions of a text, and in drawing conclusions about the significance of the changes and discrepancies you find.

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Week 9

Can “mere” indexing lead to the creation of “new” truths?

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Week 9

Can “mere” indexing lead to the creation of “new” truths?

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Week 7

I too well remember a time – a long time, of cold, of danger, of contention. To this hour, when I have the nightmare, it repeats the rush and saltness of briny waves in my throat, and their icy pressure on my lungs. I even know there was a storm, and that not of one hour nor one day. For many days and nights neither sun nor stars appeared; we cast with our own hands the tackling out of the ship; a heavy tempest lay on us; all hope that we should be saved was taken away. In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. (Villette, 39).

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Week 7

I too well remember a time – a long time, of cold, of danger, of contention. To this hour, when I have the nightmare, it repeats the rush and saltness of briny waves in my throat, and their icy pressure on my lungs. I even know there was a storm, and that not of one hour nor one day. For many days and nights neither sun nor stars appeared; we cast with our own hands the tackling out of the ship; a heavy tempest lay on us; all hope that we should be saved was taken away. In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. (Villette, 39).

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Week 5

“Thus as any given moment of its historical existence, language is a heteroglot from top to bottom: it represents the co-existence of socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between differing epochs of the past […]” (Bakhtin 291)

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Week 5

“Thus as any given moment of its historical existence, language is a heteroglot from top to bottom: it represents the co-existence of socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between differing epochs of the past […]” (Bakhtin 291)

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Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts

Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it.  I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising

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Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts

Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it.  I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising

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Wolf Notes 4-29-13

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Wolf Notes 4-22-13

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Wolf Notes 4-15-13

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Wolf Notes 4-8-13

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Wolf Notes 3-24-13

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Wolf Notes 3-24-13

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