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Charlotte's "Text": A Note on the Etymology of Web

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posted on 2025-06-30, 05:11 authored by J. T. Barbarese
Barbarese explores the links between the modern ideas of text creation and reception and the Latin term textus, meaning Web.

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Journal

The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's Literature

ISSN

1551-5680

Volume

9

Issue

1

Publisher

La Trobe University

Section Title

Jabberwocky

Author Biography

J.T. Barbarese's fourth book of poetry, The Black Beach, selected as the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, will be published in the spring of 2005 by University of North Texas Press. His adaptation of Euripides' The Children of Heracles appears in Euripides, 4, volume four of the complete works of Euripides in the Penn Greek Drama Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, and his critical essays in Tri-Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Studies in English Literature, and most recently in The Journal of Modern Literature. In 2004-05 he is a Fellow of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, researching "The Gendering of Children," with specific reference to the tension between narrative and archetypal pattern in picture-story books.

Date Created

2008-12-15

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