Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

Samford University English Department's online journal of literature and film wideangle.submittable.com/submit Birmingham, AL Joined March 2012

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Spring is the mischief in me. . . ." --Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

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7 years ago

"After love, was sadness not the most common noun in our lyrical repertoire?" --Nguyen, _The Sympathizer_

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"Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death, for if we are represented by others, might they not one day hose our deaths off memory's laminated floor?" --The Sympathizer

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, _The Sympathizer_

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Today you see but a shattered specimen, a caricature of the man that once was. Did a kind, wise, helpful, and benevolent conqueror bring this about? Can a real, true, genuinely superior social order work such havoc?" --Matthiessen, _In the Spirit of Crazy Horse_

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Let's not walk on the moon, then fail to understand what this creation is all about. This is life. This is beautiful. Everything is the way it should be." --Peter Matthiessen, _In the Spirit of Crazy Horse_

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Book?! What have such as I, who am a warrior of the wilderness, ... to do with books? I never read but in one, and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need much schooling...." --Hawkeye, Last of the Mohicans

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

Issue 8.1 is live, featuring our first-ever cover art! Check us out here: samford.edu/arts-and-scien…. Congrats to all our contributors and our hard-working editors!

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"...it is clearly the case that all film schools have become increasing[ly] subject to the demands of the industry, marginalizing the overtly intellectual or theoretical in favor of...the practical sphere of vocational relevance." --Duncan Petrie

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Rather than being content to churn out suitably compliant workers...we should all...strive to encourage our graduates to continue to use their creativity and intellect to change and improve...the industry in which they aspire to work." --Duncan Petrie

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"Especially for those who had been with Washington and who knew what a close call it was at the beginning, . . . the outcome [of the Revolutionary War] seemed little short of a miracle." --_1776_, by David McCullough

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

"But the real issue . . . is how to combine the teaching of skills . . . with as strong a liberal arts background as possible. Meanwhile, the contempt for humanistic learning . . . is destroying not only intellectual life but citizenship itself." --Marjorie Perloff

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

The deadline for submissions for the fall 2018 issue of Wide Angle is next Friday, Oct. 5! For fall 2018, we have a special call for submissions related to Modernism. As always, we also have a general call for critical and creative works.

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

At the WLA conference: Brian Turner, Donald Anderson, and Benjamin Busch. Veterans, writers, editors, and filmmakers.

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7 years ago

“We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read.” —Donald Anderson, Editor, WLA Journal

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Wide Angle @WideAngleSam

7 years ago

Art at the USAFA: Celebrating gender and diversity in US military history.

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7 years ago

Scenic views from the US Air Force Academy, which is currently hosting the WLA conference.

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7 years ago

Live from the WLA conference at the US Air Force Academy, exploring “the power and influence of humanistic study to develop our nation’s leaders of character.”