Words I have added to my spellchecker in the last week

[rymenhild]

Christological
discursus
historicizing
martyrology
misreadings
overdetermined
positionings
postcolonialism
problematize / problematized / problematizing
totalization
unprovable
vernacularity

I was surprised, however, that the machine knew the word "postdiluvian".

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Student gems are on their way. While you wait for them to show up, I will share with you one piece of advice I really, really wanted to scrawl on the side of someone's research paper:

The Mabinogi were not written in Middle English. If you happened to mention to someone Welsh that you thought the Mabinogi were written in Middle English, he or she would have to kill you.

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And a meme, just because I feel like it: Choose one or two interests from my interest list. Ask me about them.

Comments

Re: Christine de Pizan

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

How about because it's boring? I say that rarely about a piece of literature because it's all relative, but even being tested on it I couldn't get through it. I had no idea that the single-minded pursuit of romance could, with the insertion of enough allegory, be made that yawn-inducing.

Though I do love the part where the narrator takes Reason to task for using sexually explicit language (unbefitting a lady) in her description of Greek myths, and she takes him to task right back, pointing out that she invented the words so who's he to tell her not to use them? It was a wonderfully modern sort of moment in the midst of all the navel-gazing and philosophizing. (Interestingly, at least the edition I was reading from astrixes the words out...)

Re: Christine de Pizan

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I haven't managed to get through the Romance of the Rose yet either (blush).