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Fragments from the Burning Archive: Mikhail Bakhtin

Post author By Jeff Rich
Post date December 30, 2020
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I plunged again into my white box of old handwritten index cards today, and pulled from the archive, laid down in my twenties and thirties, a fragment from Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), the Russian literary critic and philosopher. The text comes from a late work of Bakhtin, Speech Genres, although I took the text from Clark […]

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Gathering flowers for the mind

Post author By Jeff Rich
Post date July 25, 2016
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This morning I pulled down from my bookshelf a cardboard box that contains a hundred or more index cards on which I had written in the 1980s and 1990s when I was a student, and before computers, quotations, drawn from my reading. This old habit is like gathering flowers for the mind, and the sewing […]

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