BillHeise | September 16, 2009
The 1960s had given us the idealism which was supposed to solve all our problems. [see Changing Media II; Hair, and Deaf-Mutes in Mao’s China]. All we had to do was make the move away from our individual selves to what I have come to call our “inner goddess” and what Robert Graves had called [...]
BillHeise | June 19, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– I had put away my academic ambitions entirely devoted myself to building a business. I did this because academia was very difficult for me. Academics shared a dark sense of the world, and they [...]
BillHeise | June 19, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– Six months after I had my stroke, I was contacted by Joel Relihan asking me whether it was still okay to publish my article on the Menippean Boethius in the Middle Ages. I said [...]
BillHeise | June 16, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– I had dropped out of academia for the second time in my life. I had made huge gains in my field, where I pointed out that the development of allegory was influenced Aristotle and [...]
BillHeise | June 16, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– As I said before in this blog, I started out my dissertation thinking that I could write a short paper explaining the logic of Raison’s “demonstration of indemonstrables.” But over time I kept growing [...]
BillHeise | June 15, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– The culmination of my graduate school career turned out to be my reading of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. This was something I had always intended to address out of graduate school, but I [...]
BillHeise | June 15, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– As I have said on this blog many times, I read a lot of the lost and forgotten works. This is a habit I developed in graduate school. Before I was in graduate school, [...]
BillHeise | June 14, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– I soon learned in graduate school that I was more interested in allegory than I was interested in the failing symbol. As such, I tended to read books that no one else was reading, [...]
BillHeise | June 14, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– When I was in college, the best class I ever took was Caron Cioffi’s class in The Sources and Analogues of Chaucer. I took it on the eve of getting married. Caron Cioffi was [...]
BillHeise | June 14, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– When I was in graduate school, I became a conservative. I’ve long since given this up. I did it because I thought that people weren’t listening to me and I had a better solution [...]
