Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Grandad Repatriates a Book

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Ruby with her authorial father (photo credit: K . Dixon, om ni - talented mother) The past week for me was mainly a happy swi...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

What News?

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The very sad news of the death of the journalist Gwen Ifill, one of the anchors of the PBS News Hour , is in our house a kind of “objectiv...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Jean-François Champollion

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statue of Champollion, courtyard of the Collège de France This morning we have learned the results of the American general ele...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Biography and Brevity

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I have just finished reading Philip Short’s biography of Mao Zedong.   Even as I write that sentence I blush at its exaggeration....
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Bill Bowen

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  Bill Bowen (1933-2016) William G. Bowen, the former president of Princeton University, died last week.   Bill was already a pr...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Writing: Invention or Exclusion?

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  Georges Perec Is it possible for you to write some complete, coherent sentences without using the first letter of our writing...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Groping: A Brief Literary History

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"Adam catched Eve by the Furbelow" traditional English folk catch Can a medievalist possibly have a special take on th...
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John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy.He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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