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Comment on Literature Compass MLA Panel & Pre-MLA Round-Up by Derek McCrea

Derek McCrea — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:26:13 +0000

And to think, the MLA is still changing.

Comment on Hello, Beautiful: The Inaugural Issue of GLOSSATOR Has Arrived! by ejoy

ejoy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:27:06 +0000

Hello Jonathan--my immense apologies for saying you were a graduate student; for some reason, I thought you were a PhD student at Cambridge, but can't recall now why I thought that, so my apologies again. I didn't mean to imply that you wrote the quotation which I *do* attribute to an anonymous reader at "In The Middle," but since that isn't eminently clear, it's worth pointing it out here, as you do. And thanks, also, for your kind words regarding our efforts to enlarge the scope and ambit [and hopefully, the importance] of medieval studies.

Comment on Hello, Beautiful: The Inaugural Issue of GLOSSATOR Has Arrived! by Jonathan Jarrett

Jonathan Jarrett — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:55:51 +0000

That sounds really good, actually; attentive close readings of texts of any kind, as well as more imaginative farseeing mises-en-contexte, are after all the beginnings of almost everything anyone calling themselves a medievalist does. But, for the record since you’ve kindly linked to me, I’m not a graduate student (not for four years now) and I didn’t, as you know but as isn’t clear to the reader perhaps, write the words that you quote just after mentioning my name. Pedantry over, you’re quite right about what needs to be done about the problems I’ve emphasised in that line, I think, and I’m inspired by your prodigious efforts. It’s not just being self-important; it’s actually making ourselves more important, or making our importance obvious. And as with any protest, which is what this is, right? it works best if you can amass a group. Or a group of groups… I need to add an extra line or two to my agenda. Thankyou.

Comment on MLA 08 Panel Report V – Public Shakespeares by jenecrit

jenecrit — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:11:06 +0000

Just recently discovered this blog, and I’ve enjoyed reading more about current discussions in literary studies. Shakespeare online is particularly interesting to me. I’ve added you to my blogroll at http://literatiworld.wordpress.com

Thanks!

Comment on Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration by Jeremy Walderson

Jeremy Walderson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:32:31 +0000

I found your article quite useful and interesting. I have bookmarked the site for later usage. Jeremy

Comment on The Victorian Plays Project by Kate Mattacks

Kate Mattacks — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:14:48 +0000

Yes, there is a website for the project. It is linked via this blog or can be accessed directly via http://victorian.worc.ac.uk
Pdfs of plays can be located through the basic search engine (on the ’search’ toolbar) or you can look at the ‘playlist’ itself. All the pdfs are linked to this page. Once a play is selected from the search you can search for the frequency of a word before downloading it. There is also a search facility on the catalogue page which gives an indication of all the plays Lacy published. We digitised 360 out of a possible 1500.
If you, or indeed anyone else, have any further questions about specific themes/plays, I can be contacted at Kate.Mattacks@uwe.ac.uk

Comment on The Victorian Plays Project by Sudipto Chatterjee

Sudipto Chatterjee — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:47:29 +0000

I have a few questions:

(1) How can the digitised plays be accessed?
(2) Is there an actual Victorian Plays Project website (beyond this blog)?
(3) I am conducting research on Victorian plays on/in India and British Imperialism.

Any help available?

Thanks.

Sudipto Chatterjee
Senior Lecturer of Drama
Dept. of English & Drama
Loughborough University

Comment on Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence by Zoe Brigley

Zoe Brigley — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:49:35 +0000

As far as Sorcha and I go, we don’t have any plans to hold another symposium on the topic, but we are putting together a collection of essays. I would be interested too though to hear if any other academics have plans to hold seminars/conferences on the subject.

Best wishes,

Zoe Brigley

Comment on Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence by Judith Swanson

Judith Swanson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:06 +0000

Are other symposia planned on the same topic?
Thanks.
Judith A. Swanson
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
USA

Comment on Fashioning Postmodern/Postcolonial Bodies, University of Westminster, London, 6th Sept 2008 by Maeve Eileen Davey

Maeve Eileen Davey — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:28:47 +0000

Thanks! And I second Maria and Iva’s comments about how good the conference was – a pleasure to blog about

Comment on Fashioning Postmodern/Postcolonial Bodies, University of Westminster, London, 6th Sept 2008 by Iva Milivojevic

Iva Milivojevic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:14:14 +0000

You wrote extraordinary overview of the conference. And the conference itself was amazing experience. I hope that something similar willl be organized soon. Regards. Iva MIlivojevic

Comment on Fashioning Postmodern/Postcolonial Bodies, University of Westminster, London, 6th Sept 2008 by Maria Mellins

Maria Mellins — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:09:57 +0000

This is a really useful resource. Some very interesting work was discussed during the conference, which I throughly enjoyed.

Comment on On “Postcolonialism and the Hit of the Real,” 6-8 March 2008, NYU by Bezukhof

Bezukhof — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:35:07 +0000

Oh, the wrangled anguish of liberal guilt retroactively crediting ‘oppressed’ cultures the currency of our approval. By your logic, haven’t we already done enough to these poor souls by destroying their cultures and perspectives only to, insult upon injury, cringingly reconstruct them? I can imagine proud academic archaeologists puzzling cultural debris into whole again, a Humpty-Dumpty redemption, gradually and cherishingly reassembling its face from shards of egg-shells and there emerging the furrow of a brow, a pair of indignant eyebrows, a snarled nose, a jutted chin and finally the face of the wrathful rerealization, hollow of soul, a Golem, cursing you all for disturbing his rest. Isn’t it time to put all of this wrangled and overwrought guilt to bed already?

Comment on The Carlyle Letters Online by Jane Darcy

Jane Darcy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:40:37 +0000

Jeanne Moskal of UNC Chapel Hill put me onto the CLO database when I mentioned I was about to start work on a chapter for my PhD on the Carlyles. What an astonishing resource it is! Wondering about Carlyle’s attachment to ideas of silence, I was able in seconds to search – and found over 900 references in his letters to ’silence’ or ’silent’ and could track the development of his ideas with great precision. I’m glad to have the physical volumes to consult too – you don’t want to curl up in an armchair with a good database. So thank you very much. This resource will revolutionise Carlyle scholarship.

Comment on The Floor of Cotton Mather’s Study by Colin Ramsey

Colin Ramsey — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:16:59 +0000

It’s not that the conceit is particularly unusual, but that Silverman’s use of it is particularly good.

Firstly, it’s not just a metaphor here: Silverman concretely describes the architecture of Mather’s house, especially the library, which was one of the greatest private libraries of colonial America, and for colonial bibliophiles, the description is like catnip. Also, Silverman’s placement of Mather embodied, as he moves through the divided spaces of the house, gives us access to the physical manifestations of Mather’s mind and emotions.

Sure, house is to head, ala “House of Usher”; attic is to mind, ala the Custom House; but that’s not what we get out of Silverman’s bio.

Comment on The Floor of Cotton Mather’s Study by chasingpaper

chasingpaper — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:23:24 +0000

dude. i know it’s been awhile since you made this post but i have to say…from your description of silverman’s book, you could take out the words “cotton mather” and insert about a thousand other famous writers and you could make the same argument. nathaniel hawthorne, emily dickinson, charlotte perkins gilman, samuel pepys, etc. what’s so original about this book?

Comment on The Physiology of the Novel / Marriage and Violence by Miranda Garno Nesler

Miranda Garno Nesler — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:04:24 +0000

Dolan’s book sounds like a much-needed consideration on tensions between concepts of hierarchical marriage and companionate marriage. Does anyone know if a table of contents is available online? I’ve been unable to locate one.

Comment on BAAS 2007 – Google, Horror, Arab American poetry by imen bennani

imen bennani — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:13 +0000

making research on the net, i came across your article. am an English teacher from Tunisia. am making research on contemporary Arab American poetry and looking for sources. for my bibliography, would you provide me with some titles of books related to this subject? Have you taken notes related to this during this conference? THANKS

Comment on European Graduate School Lectures – Derrida, Baudrillard, Žižek, Butler by rosaura maertinez

rosaura maertinez — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:30:41 +0000

Hi, it is great that you are sharing all this information. I was wondering if you have this lecture available somewhere in a written version.

Thanks,
Rosaura

Comment on On “Postcolonialism and the Hit of the Real,” 6-8 March 2008, NYU by Maeve Eileen Davey

Maeve Eileen Davey — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:47:19 +0000

Hi Sarah – Great conference blog, feels like I just relived it all over again!
Brilliant event, like you mentioned it was somewhat light on female representation but it did attract a lot of international participants speaking on a wide range of topics so it gets plus points for that.