(Image from here: Strange but Trewe) I stumbled across an interpretation Tuesday in the course of teaching the Prioress’s Tale. As I said it, it…
After Kzoo, I wrote a post reevaluating my thoughts on animals. A revised version of the reevaluation became my diss’s conclusion–epilogue, rather, as that sounds…
Blurton’s second chapter considers Beowulf within the alimentary logic and wonders of the whole of its manuscript, Cotton Vitellius A. XV, whose contents, as our…
A entry in a book event, unlike a book review, makes no claim to completeness, finality, or even to treating the book under question directly.…
To acclimate myself to Brooklyn College, I’ve been sitting in on Nicola’s summer Canterbury Tales course and occasionally participating in class discussion. It’s been fun,…
Stuart Klawens, the film critic for The Nation, is the butt of a lot of jokes in our household. Even though I like his work,…
In Feb. 2006, Jeffrey wrote this: Back to the temporal archive: pork is a food central to Christian identity, a demarcative use that is positively…
Been quiet around these parts. Here’s a placeholder QOTD to supplement our various posts on heterogeneity and the English past (for example, here and here).…
Yet another creepy Bush nomination. This time, it’s James Holsinger, nominated for surgeon general. While he isn’t nearly as bad as David Hager, his 1991…
Suete sone, reu on me, and brest out of thi bondis: For nou me thinket that I se thoru bothen thin hondes Nailes dreven into…
