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Michael Hancher
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Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law.
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/

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Michael Hanchard, often published as Michael G. Hanchard, is an American political scientist, currently the Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the director of the Marginalized Populations Project there. He studies comparative politics and political theory, focusing on understanding the causes and consequences of nationalism and xenophobia, particularly within democracies. .. more

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 16h
Ceci n'est pas une pipe?
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17h
Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17h
Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 1d
oed.com is tracking you now

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 2d
"Creative reading" promised much: "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 2d
Before then, writing was just "creative." "There is ... creative reading, as well as creative writing" (Emerson, 1837). archive.org/details/orat...
An oration, delivered before the Phi beta kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
32 p. 24 cm
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 2d
A century of (academic) creative writing.
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: creative writing, 1800-2022
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 4d
All roads lead to Rome.
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 6d
Comparing a red apple to a green apple,?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 6d
A landmark moment. Supervisor Connie Chan led a unanimous San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution honoring the #InternetArchive & establishing Internet Archive Day.
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 7d
Unfortunately (or not) it's true (as AI says) that AI still fails this basic Turing test.

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 7d
Gathering Leaves
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148658...
Gathering Leaves
Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons.
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 10d
Ad Reinhardt.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 10d
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 12d
More at pressbooks.umn.edu/arboretummap...

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 12d
Congratulations to Doug! and thanks for bringing @uminnpress.bsky.social into to its second creative century.
publisherswkly.bsky.social Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 13d
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 13d
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
Thanks! Now working on the index.

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
A client passing the time, while his coins are being assessed, by reading a book (because there were no cell phones then).

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
Just announced: Macaulay and English in India www.routledge.com/Macaulay-and... @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Macaulay and English in India
This book traces how the English language emerged from the nineteenth century as not only an imperial and bureaucratic language but also as a global one. It highlights the role of Thomas Babington Mac...
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you , Patrick (and also @theotherprofessor.bsky.social). I opened it up this afternoon to check the chapter number, and was reminded that it does look great as a book, thanks to @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
Details at chapter 4, "The Lineage of the Ugly Duchess" (ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...).

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 14d
Watched also by the client, who is reflected in the convex mirror in the foreground, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co.... Has he been noticed?
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 18d
"Occasional vanity entries are not forbidden." (Chicago Manual of Style 15:31 Terms that should not be indexed.)

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 18d
"Common sense is the best guide." (Chicago Manual of Style 15:30 Choosing Index Terms.)

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 18d
Then came printers, dictionaries, and teachers.
stephenturton.bsky.social Stephen Turton @stephenturton.bsky.social · Mar 28
I once went through the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English to collect all the attested Middle English spellings of ‘through’ (476).

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 21d
Small world! My wife remembers your father fondly. I retired a few years ago, after quoting that remarkable Stein passage (at length) in "Seeing and Tagging Things in Pictures" (hdl.handle.net/11299/223078). More recent thoughts about pictures (in dictionaries) at doi.org/10.1017/9781....
Seeing and Tagging Things in Pictures
Despite modernist precepts, digital projects that use crowdsourcing to annotate large collections of images of paintings and book illustrations with “tags” have encouraged viewers to see things in pic...
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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 22d
" . . . but did the colors that were the colors anybody could see trees and water-falls naturally were, did these colors add or did they detract from the reality of the oil painting as oil painting." Stein, Lectures in America (1935).

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks to 3M!

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 22d
Except, of course, for "poetic diction"?

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Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social · 22d
Who/what will fill out the course evaluation sheets?