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I need to submit this tomorrow for a job app. I think there will be medievalists and early modernists on this search committee - it's a department apparently trying to develop something bigger with medieval lit, and they already have someone teaching OE and ME, so I do need to presume that my readers are at least familiar with these works. So I don ( Read more... ) -
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A few jobs have "25 pages max" or the like in the ads for writing samples. My only non-co-authored article is too long. My options ( Read more... ) -
some whinging and a stats question
Mother of fucking GOD this bullshit $8/hour fucking writing gig is going to kill me.
The that/which and comma shit - I let it go, not worth fighting. Not a grammar point I think worth the blood that gets shed over it. If I go insane over the Oxford comma, that/which debates put me to sleep. I care only about clarity - is the meaning clear? Then I ( Read more... ) -
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So there's an MLA panel on "veterans reading literature" or the like this spring and *nobody invited me*? Jesus. I guess I really fell off the radar this past year. -
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I've forgotten my facebook password (I reset it a couple of weeks ago and cleared my cache this past weekend). On the upside I'm getting a bit more work done, though not as much as I need to. I'm really behind schedule on Ch. 3 :/
A comp lit professor from Israel wrote me yesterday. Not only did he read the Milton article, which was a pleasant ( Read more... ) -
stumped (OE translations)
This is from a confessional prayer.
Ic ondette æfste & tælnesse, twyspræcnesse & leasunge, ellenhete & nið, unnyttes gylpes bigong & idle glengas, uncyste & idelre oferhygde, orgello þe to mines lichoman unræde æfre gelumpe oððe ic agælde þæt to minre sawle frætwum belumpe & me to eces lifes earnunge gegan sceolde.
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slouching towards vocabulary
I keep finding myself, in numerous failed attempts to gather and structure all my thoughts in this chapter, returning to invoke "popular misconceptions about the middle ages." The problem is that I am not sure of my perspective anymore. This may be a "straw man." But I am not really *sure.* I mean, I don't regularly have conversations with anyone ( Read more... ) -
dissertation woes redux
In light of my sort of horrendous problem (ie, that a 2011 book has left me with nothing to say - because oh yes, come to find out, my plan to start with homilies instead since she discusses everything else is out, because she discusses my homilies too), I am in a horrible, horrible writing place. The plan was to have two chapters to my committee ( Read more... ) -
dissertation woes
I went this past week to pick up Leslie Lockett's _Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions_) published 2011, U of Toronto Press. Her first chapter is my dissertation/writing so far, minus a consideration of homilies. Seriously. She says everything I was going to say about the state of the field, about the biases in ( Read more... ) -
The homily that's determined to kill me - HomM 14.1-2, Junius 85, ff 2v, 12r-17r
ETA: Why does lj keep changing my formatting on me every time I edit this post? I am really getting sick of this. My line breaks and justification keep disappearing. So you may not want to bother with the below if the formatting is gone again - it's far too hard to read.
I cannot even begin to express how long it's taken me to get this far - ( Read more... )