Comments on: Shameless Self-Plugs: A Links Round-Up

By: helen (a gallimaufry)

helen (a gallimaufry) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:11:00 +0000

In reply to helen (a gallimaufry). Oh no! Not Leah Bobet, Jill Bearup! Sorry, Jill!

By: helen (a gallimaufry)

helen (a gallimaufry) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:10:00 +0000

The piece about white supremacism in medieval studies is fascinating, so are the comments, especially about construction of race. It reminds me of an essay by Umberto Eco on hyperreality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality), the Middle Ages seems particularly vulnerable to people’s projections of their fantasies.

BUT I shall remain ever grateful to you Jenny for that link to Leah Bobet’s comments about Susan and C.S. Lewis. That has totally made my day. By the way, have you ever read ‘Till We Have Faces’? It’s really interesting. I want to write about it but am still thinking about how to do that…

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:10:00 +0000

My main research topic is medieval images as fascism or resistance in World War II French literature and film. So thanks for that article!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:09:00 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. I didn't know that was coming out!!! I've been waiting and waiting and WAITING.

By: IfyoucanreadthisBina

IfyoucanreadthisBina — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:13:00 +0000

Yess Kurdish lit in translation! Also wonderful list over at Smugglivus! I loved Genius, which you actually recommended to me yay, but I need more of it! Also damnit now I can’t remember the title but there’s awesome looking UP book/s coming out about resistance and violence.

By: Carolyn O

Carolyn O — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 01:32:00 +0000

J’adore your list of logophilic resolutions! More shameless self-plugs, please!

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:41:00 +0000

Loved your posts over in the other internet spaces and have visited/commented on them accordingly. The Natalie Luhrs’ post on romance novels is great especially the mention of Cecilia Grant’s book. I identify with Luhr when she said that when people ask what she’s reading now or recommending, she falls back on anything other than romance. I’ve definitely done that, most recently with two guys who I was just getting to know better and who were genuinely interested in the books I’d been enjoying lately. Inside my head, I knew I was censoring out the romance books I’d enjoyed, but I didn’t want to bring the ‘baggage’ associated with romance novels into this ‘getting to know you’ type conversation.

The medievalist article was also very good – I didn’t know that about Celtic symbology and its appropriation by white nationalists but it makes sense and now some stray observations I’ve over the years are coalescing in light of this information.

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:11:00 +0000

Ha, the Padme childbirth one is fun. But I do have to take exception to this: “Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with
it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and
cannot be intervened with…”

DOES his audience accept that? IIRC everybody thought it was idiotic and stupid. It’s considered the worst ending to the worst SW movie. Just because it appears doesn’t mean that the audience accepts it (except the three fanboys who will defend anything at all).

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:27:00 +0000

In reply to Jeanne.

and you have seen this website, right? http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:28:00 +0000

My daughter sent me that article on white nationalism in medieval studies this fall, as she is in her first year of grad school as a medieval/renaissance scholar. Of course, the problem with global medieval studies, at least in literature, is the difficulty of learning to read the archaic vernacular languages.
The book I’m most excited for next year is coming out in October, Nick Harkaway’s Gnomon. You may not have been a fan in the past, but this new one is, as Monty Python used to say, something completely different.