Grant CurrierMar 10, 20213 minGenre as Style & Genre as EthicIn a recent FYC class, I asked my students to spend a few minutes writing down as many genres of Movies, Music, and Dances they could...
Grant CurrierMar 3, 20212 minAn Exercise(s) in Futility?Among English faculty there's reason for some quantity of despair, or at the very least, frustration at the current state of style and...
Grant CurrierFeb 8, 20214 minMannequins and Lambrequins: On Styles Old and NewWhat purpose, if any, does an ornate lambrequin serve, that decorative strip of cloth set above windows or set on the back of a door? It...
Grant CurrierJan 23, 20213 minJanuary 27, 2021In "Style Reveals the Man," Joseph Epstein concludes, "In all serious writing, good character, or the want of it, has a way of revealing...
Grant CurrierDec 3, 20184 minThe Girl in Red: Musings on Music, Humanities, Composition, and Adam Banks's Love of Funk"You might be omnivorous, but you can never be anywhere near omniscient." — Joseph Epstein Arturo Toscanini might have been one of the...
Grant CurrierOct 6, 20185 minThe Rhetoric of Not-So-Secret ChordsMusic to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st...