Two summers ago, my family and I decided to spend an afternoon at Lisbon's Jardim Zoológico. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that our eldest daughter made the decision to go and wouldn't relent until we took her there.
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Context and Emergence
By Vincent Barletta 10.17.2012
Focused as some of us are on medieval and early modern literature, the question of context comes up a great deal. Is our work sufficiently contextualized? Where and how do modern theories of language and meaning (our inevitable toolkit) fit into our work? Are we expected to bracket off ourselves (and our readers) from our work?
Saramago
By Vincent Barletta 07.05.2010
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Here in Lisbon they’ve cremated José Saramago. The winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature (he was Portugal’s second Nobel laureate, António Egas Moniz having won the 1949 prize in medicine for pioneering the lobotomy), Saramago consistently mixed his considerable creative talents with strong political convictions.
The Island is a Camp
By Vincent Barletta 05.22.2010
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Like most Americans, I don’t own a TV. I know it’s a cliché, but the truth is that I’m happy spending my time engaged in the quintessentially American pastimes of solving complex math problems, playing bass clarinet, and devising ways to protect the civil liberties of the most vulnerable members of our society. We’re creatures of habit, you could say.
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