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Carmen Faye Mathes

Carmen Faye Mathes is assistant professor of English literature at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. Her first book, Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation, will be published in June 2022. icon

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Losing Discoveries—So Others Can Find Them

By Carmen Faye Mathes

We talk of “making discoveries” as if forming them out of clay. Yet, for Samuel Johnson, discovery is an action rather than an object.

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