Saturday, April 27, 2013

The MLA, Old English and all

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MLA President, Marianne Hirsch, wrote to the Old English Division of the Association on 28 March 2013. On behalf of the Executive Council, s...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Kindness, caring and criticism: the academic book review

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  Preambling The Kalamazoo 2012 Babel session in which a very different version of these thoughts was delivered concerned itself w...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

That was 'This is Not the End of the Book'

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Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere have co-conversed This is Not the End of the Book , curated by Jean-Phillipe de Tonnac (NorthwesternUP...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Restrictive 'Humanities'

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Hmmm. The Humanities. The Digital Humanities. As a Digital Medievalist, Andrew Prescott said in an email to me today that he has a BA, a Bac...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

What's in a Name?

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‘A name is the first and final marker of individual rights, one fixed part of the ever-changing human world. A name is the most bas...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Swerving from the Straight and Narrow: Greenblatt's Fictional Medieval Period

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Although Stephen Greenblatt published his blockbuster The Swerve in 2011, a recent book review in the Los Angeles Review of Books ( http://...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Space

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All TEXT is is potential. That's evident from images of medieval manuscripts where the notable letters, the flourished initials, have be...