Dabling harvard biography definition

  • We live in a dabbling age, when Internet access makes instant experts of us all and crossing genres has become more expectation than.
  • Professor Marjorie Garber's new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn't need to have an application.
  • She agrees that biography “requires, or assumes, a way of thinking about identity and selfhood” (14), although she adopts the view that it “is not necessary for.

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    Owen Wister

    One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The book became one of the first mass-market bestsellers and stands as the defining skrivelse for America's most durable hero—the cowboy. Its author, Owen Wister, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. '88, was the unlikeliest of creators for his celebrated book. A cowboy he wasn't.

    Covers of a first edition and a 1998 utgåva of The Virginian frame a photograph of Wister taken during a visit to Yellowstone about 1890.

    Wister was born in Philadelphia, into a gifted family of comfortable means and impeccable social standing: his father was a physician, his mother—a daughter of the famous English actress Fanny Kemble—a respected magazine writer. Their only child was sent to boarding schools in New England and Switzerland before he entered Harvard in 1878. There he had a brilliant career, earning stjärnliknande grades and discovering a

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    “Biology Is the Technology of the Century”

    According to Pamela Silver, “if more than 10 percent of your experiments work, you’re doing the wrong experiments”—a sentiment that summarizes her overall philosophy of science. For Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, it'sall about risk. Not only can big risk lead to big payoff (if you’re lucky), but it’s also where all the fun is. From her childhood in the then-fledgling Silicon Valley where she rubbed shoulders not only with technology luminaries but also with members of the Grateful Dead, to her current work as a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology, Silver’s career can be best described as one long pursuit of her scientific fascinations. Here, Silver discusses her approach to running a lab, her thoughts on the future of science, and why we should be able to engineer biology the same way we engineer electronics.

    HMS: How did you get into science?

    SILVER: That’s a long st

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    Why and how

    When Marjorie Garber chaired the National Book Award committee for nonfiction in 2010, she had 500 books to read and a myriad of questions.

    Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies, immediately got on the horn with her committee members and asked: “What are the criteria? How are we going to come to an agreement?”

    “We set down two criteria, which sound very vague, but which were absolutely central for us,” recalled Garber. “The book had to be well-written. It could not merely be well-researched, but it had to be pleasurable, moving, engrossing to read. And, secondly, we wanted it to be something that would last. We wanted it to be a book that we thought people would read again.”

    Thinking critically about literature is nothing new for Garber. She knew even as a teenager traveling to see T.S. Eliot speak at the 92nd Street Y that she wanted to be part of “the big conversation that involved both critics and writers