Thursday, November 18, 2010

The ways of scholarship

This morning I was thinking about how ideas cross pollinate across bodies of water, over time and space. I was thinking that my dissertation topic today, one which I think is very novel, probably finds the roots of its ideas in books I read a decade ago about the role of literature in shaping Icelandic cultural identity.

1 comments:

William said...

I too feel there is a good chance that pollen, trapped between the pages of a book, could move between continents.