An Appreciation.
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چکیده
I'm worried about my paper. " I had a 25-page seminar paper due in less than two weeks. I'd turned in an eight-page proposal, with an outline and an annotated bibliography, and it had been severely and accurately critiqued by the class the day before. It's spring semester, my first year in graduate school at Indiana University. I'd considered myself a poet—I was getting a Masters in Fine Arts—but I was taking a literature seminar on autobiography, Eakin's spe-J.D. Scrimgeour is coordinator of creative writing at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. This article is excerpted from a book he is working on about class, place, and learning, titled Themes from English B. Portions of the manuscript have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Boston Globe Magazine. L ate afternoon, the fifth floor hallway nearly empty. Far down the corridor, there's one door ajar; the rest of the faculty offices are sealed behind opaque yellow windows. My professor, John Eakin, unlocks his door, and the two of us step inside and sit, he in a swivel chair, and I in a hard wooden one. My backpack thuds onto the tile floor. Over his left shoulder are rows of autobiographies and scholarly books on autobiography. He brings his hands up in front of his chest and presses his fingers against each other, making a see-through pyramid. His slack hair parts to the left; short, but somehow not neat, a few strands escaping. Glasses, a thin face.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Postgraduate medical journal
دوره 20 218 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1944