‘Corona’ shines once again at Montana State University

They would seem like simple questions to which there are simple answers. What is a book? What is an image? What is a journal?

But in the hands of the organizers of editors and contributors of the newly published "Corona," http://www.montana.edu/corona/ a journal of arts and ideas based at Montana State University, the usual is turned inside out until it is transformed into the unexpected.

The 30-year-old periodical, which was dormant for many years after the publication of four previous issues, has now become more than a journal, even something more than a book.

"We wanted to do something that embodied theoretical problems of text and image," said Michael Sexson, an MSU English professor who was one of the founders of the original "Corona" in 1980. Sexson remains one of three editors of the publication. Others are Lynda Sexson, professor of religious studies, and Carla Nappi, a professor of history, both in MSU’s Department of History and Philosophy,

"Every piece that is included is multilayered and used in very different ways to teach and to engage," he said. "Everything is multisensory."

Carol Schmidt, MSU News

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