The Wreck of the “Julie Plante” is a poem written in 1896 by Irish-born physician Dr. William Henry Drummond, who wrote poetry almost exclusively in the doggerel slang of French-Canadians who spoke bad English. Hopelessly politically incorrect, the poem can only be understood if read aloud in a broad fake French accent — and this, the reading out loud, in combination with the silky tactility of the vellum paper on which the book is intended to be printed, is the main point of this ebook. As Giles pointed out in our first class, ebooks aim to restore the role of “the object” to internet communications. This ebook privileges the ear and the hand over the intelligence of the eye — a brief flash of bodily sensuality.
March 30, 2008...8:42 pm
ebook — The Wreck of the “Julie Plante”
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