Here are all the humanities entries from the academic haiku contest. Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
1.
Words like “so, you know”
glue onto pronouns; grammar
from faded meaning.
“The grammaticalisation of discourse markers in relative clauses”
2.
The more I research
this, the more certain I feel
that Lehmann was right.
“Towards a diachronic typology of relative clauses”
3.
The relative clause:
parasite, steals its form from
other constructions.
“Towards a diachronic typology of relative clauses”
4.
From the bruised syntax
of mangled constructions, rise
these zombie clauses.
“Towards a diachronic typology of relative clauses”
5.
San Juan de la Cruz
Says the best way to know God
Is to not know him.
“Seeing, Knowing and Understanding: Paradoxes of Religious Thought in Selected Works of San Juan de la Cruz”
6.
Cervantes says he
Did not write the Quijote.
If not, then who did?
“Notions of Authors and Authority in Selected Works by Cervantes”
7.
Adaptive Reuse
Preserve the Vernacular
Frank Lloyd Would be Proud
“Adaptive Reuse and Sustainable Design. Concept: Weaving”
8.
Aye, Preservation
Code Officials Search for Flaws
Bain of Existence
“Adaptive Reuse and Sustainable Design. Concept: Weaving”
9.
William McDonough
Sustainable Design Rules
New Corporate Greed
“Adaptive Reuse and Sustainable Design. Concept: Weaving”
10.
Both Fielding and Sterne
often address their readers.
Why do they do this?
“The Construction of the reader in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Fielding’s Tom Jones; the relation of reader address, irony, and innuendo to narrative structure in the mid-18th Century novel.”
11.
The newest take on
Chinese metahistory
start date: years BC
Title TBA
12.
Counterarguments:
Let them sleep, like dogs? Oh, no:
Refute them at once.
“How to handle opposing arguments in persuasive messages: A meta-analytic review of the effects of one-sided and two-sided messages”
13.
Victorians preach
Way too many long sermons
On evil Papists.
“Anti-Catholic Sermons in Britain, 1820-1900″
14.
The Queen beheaded
Henry’s eye wanders (again!)
This is a romance?
“How to Do Things with Anne Boleyn”
15.
Robert’s burning gin:
A thesis — metathesis –
Coming through awry.
“Dialectical transformations of transformed dialects”
16.
Postmodernity?
Overaccumulation?
To much time or space?
“On David Harvey”
2 comments ↓
I hadn’t realised I had submitted so many more than my fair share of haikus! Apologies!
Incidentally—not that I expect I will win, given the awesomeness of all the other submissions, but just in case—I have no use at all for an itunes voucher, not owning any Apple toys, and having some issues with DRM. So in the remote case that one of my entries did win, I’d rather the prize went to the next on the list.
Are you kidding? I thought it was great that you sent in so many!
That’s exactly what I encouraged people to do.
Hmm, you’re not the first to mention DRM issues to me…maybe next time I’ll come up with something else.
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