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Wonder, depth, understanding: Scholarship in process

by CELSO VIEIRA This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation.  Wonder: that is the starting point of philosophy, according to Plato. Myths capture our attention by telling wonderful stories. Philosophers, however, look for hidden wonders disguised… read more 

ABOUT CELSO VIEIRA
Celso Vieira is a researcher of Ancient Philosophy working mainly with Platonic abstract objects and the process philosophy of Heraclitus. He comes from Brazil and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. In between these two phases, he was a research fellow at the Harry Ransom Center.

ABOUT VANESSA GUIGNERY
Guignery is professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and author of Julian Barnes from the Margins Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

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EXCERPT: Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives

by VANESSA GUIGNERY The following is excerpted from the book, Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archive (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), by author Vanessa Guignery.  The archives for each of Barnes’s novels reveal a composition pattern that starts with various notes about what to include, followed by several drafts containing… read more 

ABOUT VANESSA GUIGNERY
Guignery is professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and author of Julian Barnes from the Margins Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).