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    • Annotations for Fae Myenne Ng’s novel Bone (1993)
    • Key Terms in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010)
    • Lesson Plans to Aid High School U.S. Literature Teachers in classes reading short stories
  • Online Essays
    • A review-essay on William Carlos Williams’ _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_
    • on Edward Hopper’s East Wind Over Weehawken being sold by PAFA
    • Publications
    • “Truth so mazed”: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction
  • A selection of older print and digital scholarly work
    • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War
    • On Eros Crossing the Color-Line in William Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell
    • On Optimists’ Sons and Daughters: Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis
    • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
    • The “Raftsmen’s Passage,” Huck’s Crisis of Whiteness, and _Huckleberry Finn_ in U.S. Literary History
    • On Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015
  • Poetry chapbooks / creative writing
    • Ecotone // 14 poems by Peter Schmidt // wondering through the natural world …
    • SPLEEN poetry chapbook: pissed-off poems for a pissant age.
    • Akwete Weave poetry chapbook
    • Pocketa Pocketas (pulses & pips of poems)
    • Very Large Array // a poetry collage project by Peter Schmidt (1990-2000)
    • A Tour of Nefertari’s Tomb [part of the Array but presented separately here]

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

click on this link and then the following one for the pdf of this essay

  • Recent Posts

    • post #5, concluding the Preface to my book in progress, _Upcycling Ecopoetry_
    • post #4 in the series, from the preface to my book in progress, Upcycling Ecopoetry
    • post #3 in the series, from my book in progress Upcycling Ecopoetry
    • Post #2 in the series, from the preface to Upcycling Ecopoetry
    • Post #1 in a series, all from the preface of my book in progress, _Upcycling Ecopoetry_
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    • About Me
    • Akwete Weave poetry chapbook
    • Digital Humanities Projects
      • Annotations for Fae Myenne Ng’s novel Bone (1993)
      • Key Terms in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010)
      • Lesson Plans to Aid High School U.S. Literature Teachers in classes reading short stories
    • Ecotone // poems by Peter Schmidt // wondering through the natural world …
    • Engl 009H “Portraits of the Artist” — an introduction to literary and cultural studies for first-year students.
    • English 116 American Literature Honors Seminar, Fall 2014: the Literature of the U.S. South
    • English 52A (U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950)
    • English 52B, U.S. Fiction 1945 to the Present. Swarthmore College, Fall 2017.
    • English 53: Modern American Poetry
      • English 53, Modern American Poetry syllabus
    • English 53R: Advanced Research Topics in U.S. Literature
    • English 71B: The Lyric Poem in English (Fall 2013)
      • English 71B, The Lyric Poem in English syllabus (Fall 2013)
    • English 71D: The Short Story in the U.S. (Fall 2018)
      • English 71D, The Short Story in the U.S. (Fall 2013)
    • Online Essays
      • on Edward Hopper’s East Wind Over Weehawken being sold by PAFA
      • On Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015
    • Pocketa Pocketas (pulses & pips of poems)
    • Publications
      • “Truth so mazed”: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction
      • A review-essay on William Carlos Williams’ _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_
      • A selection of older print and digital scholarly work
        • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War
      • On Eros Crossing the Color-Line in William Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell
        • Faulkner-Mitchell
      • On Optimists’ Sons and Daughters: Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis
      • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
      • The “Raftsmen’s Passage,” Huck’s Crisis of Whiteness, and _Huckleberry Finn_ in U.S. Literary History
    • Selected Courses
      • English 71D: The Short Story in the U.S. Fall 2018
      • Portraits of the Artist: a first-year seminar
    • SPLEEN poetry chapbook: pissed-off poems for a pissant age.
    • Very Large Array // a poetry collage project by Peter Schmidt (1990-2000)
    • Very Large Array project
      • A Tour of Nefertari’s Tomb
        • First Chamber in the Descent
        • Nefertari’s Tomb: The Final Chamber
        • Nefertari’s Tomb: The Second Chamber
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