<![CDATA[Brandon Shuler - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:59:13 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[Perception, Reality, and the Post-Human]]> How do we address these realities, and what is the logical end to our present reality? Are there a series of multidimensional realities in our future as illustrated by Gibson in Neuromancer and, if so, are they a real concern?

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Mar 01, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/perception-reality-posthuman-7976372.html <![CDATA[Annotated Bibliographies Explained]]> There are a number of tools out there which make the process easier. But, I want to show you the easy way, because I find it much easier to do by hand. Sometimes, programs make errors, which in the long run create more work for you.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Feb 06, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/annotated-bibliographies-explained-7799340.html <![CDATA[MLA Citations Made Easy]]> MLA citations are where most students trip up when formatting research papers in the humanities. This guide is to help you with the most frequent forms of citations which occur in the common high school, college freshman, or undergraduate writing class.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Feb 01, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/mla-citations-made-easy-7760584.html <![CDATA[Narrowing a Research Topic]]> A brief example and tips on how to narrow down a vary broad research topic into a concise and focused idea.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Jan 23, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/narrowing-research-topic-7686292.html <![CDATA[Choosing a Research Topic]]> Most academic writers, early in their careers, attempt to tackle research topics too broad in scope for a 1000- to 2000-word paper. Narrowness and specificity is the key to wrangle in a topic and break the subject down into digestible, writable bits.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Jan 17, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/choosing-research-topic-7636566.html <![CDATA[Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac]]> Visions of Gerard is unique in the Kerouac pantheon. In fact, it is one of Kerouac's most accessible and sweetest novels and is sure to win new fans to his work.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 28, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/visions-gerard-jack-kerouac-7069324.html <![CDATA[Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac]]> The story is heart-rending and the opening chapter of Kerouac's Dulouz Legend, a life's work he envisioned as a rival to Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 27, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/visions-gerard-jack-kerouac-7034280.html <![CDATA[The Author is Dead]]> This is a satirical review of Roland Barthes's "The Author is Dead."

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 23, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-author-dead-7001480.html <![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper]]> Simply put - without reserve, without hyperbole, with none of the fanatical accoutrement of a starry-eyed sycophant - Cormac McCarthy is our greatest living American writer.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 17, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/cormac-mccarthys-orchard-keeper-6959460.html <![CDATA[American Bloomsbury: The Transcendentalists; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work]]> The Transcendentalists defined American thought. Famed Critic Harold Bloom concedes American thought began with the Father of the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 14, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/american-bloomsbury-transcendentalists-6931042.html <![CDATA[John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River: Selected Letters, 1957-1960]]> John Graves's Goodbye to a River, like the slow rolling Brazos River itself, is always winding and, as it rolls its way through the 20th century, its finding its way into the Western canon.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 13, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/john-graves-making-goodbye-6916382.html <![CDATA[John Graves, Writer]]> As John Graves, beloved Texan and regional writer, nears his ninetieth birthday in 2010, the accolades of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, thinking minds of Texas's Belles Lettres are sure to follow.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 11, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/john-graves-writer-6916374.html <![CDATA[Goodbye to a River by John Graves]]> Iconic, slow, erudite, flowing, clear, and, at times, murky. Easy ways to describe a river, yet in this case it's the writing of John Graves's 1960 eponymous Goodbye to a River.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 09, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/goodbye-river-john-graves-6941342.html <![CDATA[From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texas by John Graves]]> Critics say modern western thought began with William Shakespeare. Harold Bloom says American thought began with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Texas thought begins with John Alexander Graves III.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 09, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/from-limestone-ledge-some-essays-6941308.html <![CDATA[I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg]]> Morgan's book is a strict biographical approach to the author's life, not necessarily a literary biography by definition. Morgan leaves the deciphering of the poems' meanings to Schumacher's The Dharma Lion and to Miles's Ginsberg: A Biography.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Oct 08, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/i-celebrate-myself-somewhat-private-6923608.html <![CDATA[The Typewriter is Holy by Bill Morgan]]> The Beat Generation redefined the cultural direction mid-twentieth century American. Bill Morgan explores the men who launched the revolution.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Sep 21, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-typewriter-holy-bill-morgan-6811528.html <![CDATA[A Review of David Gray's Foundling]]> David Gray returns with his eleventh album, Foundling. Known for his heady lyrics inspired by the likes of Van Morrison and Cat Stevens, Gray fuses his past sounds into a new, yet familiar, feel which highlights his maturity as an artist.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Sep 01, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-review-david-grays-foundling-6704964.html <![CDATA[Where Do English Departments Come From]]> William Riley Parker examines the rise and history of the Modern English department. However, he suggests there are structural inconsistencies in their structure.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Aug 30, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/where-english-departments-come-6686054.html <![CDATA[Turn Your Topwater into a Walk-the-Dog Torpedo]]> Follow these simple steps to turn your topwater from a vertical mess of fish spooking motions to an elegant side to side walk the dog motion.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Aug 16, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/turn-topwater-into-walkthedog-6586218.html <![CDATA[D.C. Greetham's Textual Scholarship: An Introduction]]> Greetham explores the history of the book as an object, rather than the matter which describes the inner-textual workings. He begins with the earliest written word and follows the capitulation of the printed word to his present, which was 1992.

Contributor: Brandon Shuler
Published: Aug 13, 2010

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