http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/milton The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/judging-god <p>Teaching Milton this semester, I think I made a couple of connections that must be obvious, but that I'd never quite seen before (or maybe I had: these days I'm finding the obvious striking again, which I don't know whether that's a good or a bad thing).</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/judging-god">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/judging-god#comments ambiguity C.S. Lewis Comus Empson Herbert judgment justice Luther Milton other minds Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1206 Thu, 05 May 2011 07:24:02 -0700 William Flesch 1206 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/literary-need-iv-loves-characters <blockquote><p>The topic of our attachment to words is allegorical of our attachments to ourselves and to other persons.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/literary-need-iv-loves-characters">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/literary-need-iv-loves-characters#comments Alain-Fournier Ashbery Bishop Blanchot Browning (Martin) Browning (Robert) castle Cavell cloud David Lindsay Edgewood Empson Freud Galatea Jack Finney Kafka Lacan lake love Milton Nabokov personification Philip Pullman Proust quotation Robert Louis Stevenson Simmel Spenser Stevens Woolf Wordsworth http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1197 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:57:18 -0700 William Flesch 1197 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter <p>Following up on <a href="/there-once-was-man-nantucket-or-one-relation-between-rhyming-joking-and-narrating" title="My earlier post on Nantucket / Was quickly tossed in a bucket" target="_blank">my earlier post on Nantucket</a>, as well as <a href="/%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%89%A0-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-0" title="Hey someone should do an Ngram on the word Ngram" target="_blank">all the discussion here about Ngrams</a>, I want to offer a few spontaneous speculations based on a <a href="http://web.mit.edu/piantado/www/papers/PNAS-2011-Piantadosi-1012551108.pdf" target="_blank" title="Word Lengths are Optimized for Efficient Communication - PDF!">new paper</a> that's the talk of at least a couple of neighborhoods in the town.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter#comments Alexander Pope body English Browning Dickinson Edward Gibson Freud Harry Tily information theory Markov Chains meter Milton rhyme Shakespeare Spenser Steven T. Piantadosi Wordsworth Wyatt Zipf&#039;s Law http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1139 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:19:40 -0800 William Flesch 1139 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network <p>I was intrigued by this (<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/27/1013213108.abstract" target="_blank" title="The abstract&#039;s the least abstract part of it!">abstract</a>) mathematical analysis of structural balance in social groups because I was teaching <i>Richard II</i> all week, and thinking about my favorite book on Shakespeare, Richard Decker's <i>Anatomy of the Screenplay.</i></p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network#comments Dan Decker fanfiction terminology King Lear Milton OTP OTT Paradise Lost Richard II Shakespeare Simmel sociology structural balance tragedy William Empson http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1127 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:26:42 -0800 William Flesch 1127 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/narrators-part-2-cess-of-omniscience <p>At the end of a work of fiction, the ideal reader knows as much as the author. How could it be otherwise? There is nothing else <i>to</i> know.</p> <p>This means that the end of the work is the end of omniscience.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/narrators-part-2-cess-of-omniscience">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/narrators-part-2-cess-of-omniscience#comments Alexander Pope Austen Beckett Browning fiat omniscience Fitzgerald George Eliot Hemingway Henry James Milton narratee narrator Paradise Lost Thackeray The Golden Bowl Tobias Wolff Trollope Woolf http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/999 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:50:24 -0700 William Flesch 999 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/metaphor-and-fallacy-of-conversion <p>Joshua Landy just posted <a href="/fallacy-corner-1-jacques-derrida-and-fallacy-of-conversion" target="_blank" title="Josh&#039;s entry on the fallacy of conversion">a very interesting blog entry here, </a>partly on how the fallacy of conversion tends to work in Derridean argument.  I am no longer enchanted by Derrida -- I've been... deconverted? deprogrammed? -- but I was prompted to defend him in the comments to that post. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/metaphor-and-fallacy-of-conversion">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/metaphor-and-fallacy-of-conversion#comments Derrida fallacy of conversion Joshua Landy Metaphor Milton Plato Principle of Charity Quine Stevens http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/938 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:04:41 -0700 William Flesch 938 at http://arcade.stanford.edu