Category Archives: Littademia

All the reasons I didn’t do a PhD in medieval lit, and all the reasons I still occasionally wish I had.

Whatever you do, don’t neglect that Derrida citation

Posted on April 30, 2007 by cicada

SCQ tells us how to write a paper! If only I’d learned useful stuff like this in grad school, I’d have already appeared on a History Channel documentary about The Da Vinci Code, spewing some sort of bombast about Merovingian … Continue reading →

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A barrage of art/book links

Posted on April 3, 2007 by cicada

Le Mont Solaire Mont Saint-Michel, 2006 Things are getting away from me, so here’s a list of especially good art & book links I’ve collected from the past week. One of my favorite blogs, Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, … Continue reading →

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The Gret Quizz of Medievale Trivia

Posted on January 23, 2007 by cicada

I haven’t posted nearly enough procrastinatory quizzes lately – so here’s one from Geoffrey Chaucer, especially for my dear friend mdvlist. Everyone else, I warn you, it’s hard. I haven’t done this badly on a quiz since calculus I!

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That this too solid flesh should melt?

Posted on January 13, 2007 by cicada

This is the poster for the 2008 Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) conference: Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: Shakespeare and histories and theories of the body, representations of the body, the actor’s body, cultural … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: Two Poems For a Warm Winter

Posted on January 10, 2007 by cicada

It’s all over the news now that the weather is abnormal and shockingly warm. Well, duh. Although it’s been unusually warm for months now, and 2006 was predicted to be the third-warmest year on record in the US, many news … Continue reading →

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Deliver us from MLA

Posted on January 7, 2007 by cicada

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog reminds me why I didn’t do my PhD in medieval lit: So it befel in dede that a volvo did pulle up and a voys from it seyd, ‘You going to Philadelphia?’ And thys creatur … Continue reading →

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Santa c/o ee cummings

Posted on December 14, 2006 by cicada

Inspired by McSweeney’s, my friend Sylvia “discovered” this previously unknown poem by ee cummings (who apparently had a foot fetish). 1225 stockings are hung lovingly (my love and i are bare foot & quietly wait for our stockings – gently … Continue reading →

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Santa, c/o Ginsberg, Plath and Poe

Posted on December 10, 2006 by cicada

The December McSweeney’s gives us: Poems That Were Considered and Rejected Before ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Was Established as “the Official American Christmas Poem.” I can’t decide which of the three I like best. But the faux-Poe perhaps best … Continue reading →

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