Some of my recent thoughts on John Lydgate’s exemplary narrative sequence, Fall of Princes, as a translation, but also therefore an interpretive innovation as well as preservation and transmission of Boccaccio’s, then Lawrence’s, earlier versions. Enjoy(?) The Multiple Merour Lydgate Fall of Princes
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10/12/10: working responses to medieval literature
Posted in working responses to medieval literature on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
10/6/10: working responses to medieval literature
Posted in working responses to medieval literature on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some of my recent thoughts on how paradoxical dichotomies often work together; or, rather, how seeming opposites, when held in tension, are fruitful in engendering paradoxically irreducible complexes of intention and action. What I’m trying to say here is basically that truth is, ultimately, a reconciliation of opposites, and how this can, strangely, play itself [...]
Sailing, Songcraft, Dragons, and the Heroics of Charity in ‘Beowulf’
Posted in working responses to medieval literature on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I. My recent excitement about becoming a part of the University of Victoria sailing club race team has, shall we say, run aground. Or rather, it was never even launched into the glassy waters of the strait of that Greek explorer, Juan de Fuca, (aka Ioannis Phokas). For, as the holder of at least one [...]
re-flection, microcosmology, and the enchanted world
Posted in working responses to medieval literature on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I. Lately, I have been frequently using and reflecting on (the term) ‘reflection’. To call ‘reflection’ a type of thinking about what has happened in a manner we had not done before, is to presume 1) a certain type of relationship to the world (as that about which one reflects), a relationship that characterizes our [...]
