If you teach Chaucer, you’re likely more than familiar with this bit from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil…
PRIORESS’S TALE in 40 minutes: focusing on cursed folk of Herod “al new”: theme – youth, time, and repetition. — Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) April 20,…
From Attendance List for a Funeral (in German, Lebensläufe, 1962; trans in 1966, McGraw Hill; retranslated as Case Histories for Portico in Holmes & Meier, 1988). And here’s the context for the…
Giving a talk at Cornell this Thursday! The Bare Life of (Medieval) Oysters,” March 12, 4:30, Goldwin Smith Hall 142 By some miracle of diligence, I…
Students — and probably not only students — often praise Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale for being “more realistic” than the “Knight’s Tale.” With its love of…
From the 1928 silent film The Viking, whose true star is Natalie Kalmus, responsible for the technicolor. (if you’re better than I am at making gifs,…
In 1974, in “Fascinating Fascism,” Susan Sontag wrote: Triumph of the Will and Olympia are undoubtedly superb films {they may be the two greatest documentaries…
National Squirrel Appreciation Day came and went, as it always does, with me in the yard, hiding my nuts, and missing my chance, again, to…
Hi gang! Years back, I submitted a Frankenstein’s monster of a couple conference papers for a collection to be called Fragments toward a History of a Vanishing…
On a whim, I decided to join my wife by getting an eye appointment. I told the optometrist, “well, no, I’ve never had glasses. Last…
