F is For Failure is this post’s preferred title, but it’s already been taken, a mere couple hundred times. It’s also unfair. The film succeeds,…
Analog Notes by KARL STEEL Last night, NYU held a celebratory roundtable for Carolyn Dinshaw’s latest book, How Soon is Now: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers,…
Ryan Judkins reminds me that: during the curee, the dogs were usually fed on the innards of the deer, including the stomach, lungs (if they…
Our women are not adorned to please us. Indeed, they reckon adornment a burden since they wish to be beautiful not for their ornaments but…
1) Point the First: saw an excellent paper (“Lost Geographies and The Awntyrs off Arthure”) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly at the MLA in the “Alliterative…
by KARL STEEL First! More zombies! Second, thanks very much to our guest bloggers (and to Jeffrey’s organizational moxie) for what’s become a brief history…
In her post below, Mary Kate writes: On the final page of the book, CD defines “getting medieval” as this: “using ideas of the past,…
I’ve a longer post planned, but for now, I offer this, a key moment (for me) in Getting Medieval, one I marked with “a passage…
I thank Michael Moon’s “Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex?” in After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory (SAQ Summer 2007) for…
“False Accusations” in Anita Guerreau-Jalabert’s Motif-Index of French Arthurian Verse Romances XIIth-XIIIth Cent. lists two entries under K2119(G), “Man Falsely Accused of Homosexuality”: Escanor 1636-1858,…
