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This awe-inspiring essay uses the holistic experience of reading and engaging with The WunderCabinet as a model for interdisciplinary scholarship of the twenty-first century. The essay punctuates its inventive reading of The WunderCabinet with an ergodic invitation of its own—one that will allow the reader of this essay to experience some of the same choice, serendipity, association, and discovery that reading The WunderCabinet is designed to provoke in its readers. The traditional abstract included here is merely a content teaser and, we hope, reads ironically against the innovative critical work that follows. If you wish to read more about the process by which this author undertook writing this essay, as well as the critical stakes of its production, please see the introduction to the volume as well as the accompanying anti-abstract at the close of the chapter.
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With thanks to MSU Special Collections, for allowing me to photograph their copy of Hodgson and Cohen’s WunderCabinet ; to Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen , for their kind permission to use the above images of their text in this essay ; to Natalie Phillips, for her photographic assistance; and to Gabriel Gottlieb and Elizabeth Hoover, for their crucial feedback on earlier drafts.
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Renzi, K. (2017). “In the Soul of the Sidereal World” Mining Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen’s The WunderCabinet for a Critical Model of Interdisciplinary Curiosity. In: Silbergleid, R., Quynn, K. (eds) Reading and Writing Experimental Texts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58362-4_6
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