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- Title: Introduction (International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) (Work Overview)
- Author : Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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A SCHOLAR WORKS ALONE. SO I WAS LED TO BELIEVE THROUGHOUT MY GRADUATE education: my job was to delve into obscure tomes and manuscripts; glean bits of information and insight; and, sitting in my solitary carrel or book-strewn bedroom, assemble those bits into compelling narratives and coherent arguments, revising and polishing until the whole thing was ready for posting off to a set of similarly isolated readers. Then I went to the fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Boca Raton, Florida. I didn't know what to expect: my experiences at academic conferences had only included a few Ordeals by Interview at the MLA and my first paper presentation at the South Atlantic MLA. At the latter I was scheduled opposite a humor session that included Art Buchwald and Russell Baker, an experience which gave me a new appreciation of the King's lines in Henry V: "We few, we happy few ..."
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