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When Literature Stopped Being a Subject and Started Making Sense
I didn’t expect a pedagogy book to linger in my head the way Teaching and Learning English Literature by Ellie Chambers and Marshall Gregory did, but here we are. It is one of those books you pick up thinking you will borrow a few ideas and quietly move on, only to realise later that it has been rearranging your thinking without asking permission. The reason why I am writing about this is that I stumbled upon it again after I first read it in 2010. This time, as a serious rea
Manu Kurup
Apr 264 min read


Reading Parmenides Today
Reflections on John Palmer's 'Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy.' Some books arrive at a moment when one is already prepared to listen. John Palmer’s 'Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy felt like such a book to me. It did not feel like a text I merely read. It felt like a sustained conversation, one that unfolded slowly, sometimes arduously, but always with a quiet insistence that something important was at stake. By the time I finished it, I found myself thinking not
Manu Kurup
Dec 26, 20255 min read
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