• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Ten (or Twenty) Things I Have Learned about Conferences: Ten Precepts and Ten Practices
  • Contributor: Stivale, Charles J.
  • imprint: Midwest Modern Language Association, 2005
  • Published in: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0742-5562
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  • Description: <p>The act of displacement itself can jar and dislodge thoughts, creating possible progress in one's work. I have become increasingly attentive to what I have come to call (with only the slightest irony) breakthrough moments-those occasional flashes of inspiration that can be as simple as a minor adjustment of my perspective but that help solve problems in my work in invaluable ways.</p>