I'm forwarding an appeal from an editor of a new series on science and literature at Palgrave. She is asking interested scholars to write letters supporting a...
I'd like to check out an impression of mine. The Dieners, I think, claimed that something like 60% plus of people are "happy". And this, it seems to me, is...
Hi all. Hadn't heard any chatter here about this book: Proust was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer. Wonder what any of you think. Here's the review from...
I am very interested to hear about Lehrer's book--and am grateful to Stephen Berer for pointing it out. For some time now I have been pursuing a hypothesis...
I am very interested to hear about Lehrer's book--and am grateful to Stephen Berer for pointing it out. For some time now I have been pursuing a hypothesis...
Mike--Not sure this helps, but I am teaching a course next semester called "Tainted Love," in which I claim that writers tend to write more about bad love than...
Jeff: Didn't Tolstoy capture the issue with the first line of "Anna Karenina"?: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."...
The piece on Dissanayake is coming out tomorrow in the NY Times. Joseph Carroll English Department University of Missouri---St.Louis St. Louis, MO 63121 314...
Thank you for the recommendation. I enjoyed "Inventing English." The question posed earlier is a fascinating one. Perhaps it has something to do with what...
Brett, Jason, et al--The Anna Karenina link is a good one. Following Joe Carroll and E. O. Wilson's functionalist claims for literature, I suppose it makes...
Jeff:I suppose it makes sense that tragic plots and tainted loves attract our attention. Who feels they have to practice for the good things in life? If...
Mike-- Well, let's see, I've been a novelist and short story writer for 32 years, a working archeologist for 29 years, and an English student/professor for...
BiopoeticsHi Guys, I haven't been following things lately, so I was interested, following Bill's link to the Valve, to see a couple of informative threads, one...
Mike--I'm not sure how others feel about this, but I attended half a dozen conferences last year in both literature and science, and in all cases I encountered...
Jeff:But I suspect egalitarian and universal artistry is a compound contradiction in terms. If art is a (multi-function) tool, we will always want to select...
Mike--I'm sort of thinking through this as I go along, too. The teacher in me wants to think that all of my students can be very good writers and thinkers if...
Hi, all. I'm not a professor or in academics but if I may say something: I don't think we should be afraid of qualifying people or tendencies - or talents -...
Jef:The artist and employer in me sees very different capacities in my peers and employees, many of which they seem to be unable to augment in a substantive...
Maya--Thanks. I certainly couldn't have said it better. JT Jeff P. Turpin ... From: Maya Lessov To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:06...
... Please unpack this a bit for me. You were talking about the astounding economic expansion taking place right now, and suddenly jumped to the above....
Stephen/mt ; By 2020, the fiction of "talent" will be dead, and a v. dirty word. Like ... Please unpack this a bit for me The printed book helped break the...
Dear Mike, ... Thanks. Very helpful clarification. I am assuming that you are NOT declaring an end to the social hierarchy, including the clear and extreme ...
Stephen:I am assuming that you are NOT declaring an end to the social hierarchy, including the clear and extreme differences of talent that exist in human...
Call for Papers Biological Constraints on the Literary Imagination We are soliciting essays for a special journal issue dedicated to what could broadly be...
So, hier hast mal einen Fetzen. Schau mal, ob Du Deine 'Lust' da organisch anschließen kannt. ... So, hier hast mal einen Fetzen. Schau mal, ob Du Deine...
Someone please translate that for us in the provinces. jt Jeff P. Turpin, President Turpin and Sons Inc. Cultural Resource Management 2047 Lakeshore, Canyon...
Sorry, Jeff, and everybody on the list, this was an error. Karl meant to transmit a paper to me, and obviously used the reply-button on my yesterday's...
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