tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3177105091169776805..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Something ElseCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30333778852747573072008-01-03T12:17:00.000-05:002008-01-03T12:17:00.000-05:00Karl: you are too hard on yourself, my friend. How...Karl: you are too hard on yourself, my friend. How about as a resolution "ease up in 08"?Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-80562992779142352432008-01-03T10:42:00.000-05:002008-01-03T10:42:00.000-05:00But Karl - correcting people when you think they a...<I>But Karl - correcting people when you think they are wrong is ok - isn't that the stuff of academic debate? </I><BR/><BR/>Yes, but I don't want to wait to pounce on words that don't deserve it. Obviously, JJC, author of On Difficult Middles, isn't going for pure middles, but the little corrector, my Donatus, wanted to put his oar in. Enough of that for 2008!Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-31719735072220284592008-01-03T10:26:00.000-05:002008-01-03T10:26:00.000-05:00ADM: Poach away, please! Nothing would honor us mo...ADM: Poach away, please! Nothing would honor us more.<BR/><BR/>SRJ: tone defeats me every time via the internet. Emoticons don't help because they haven't invented a satisfying one for "said dryly but with possible wit." Maybe I'll cut and paste tiny Steven Wright heads next to certain lines.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-88258618075496687682008-01-03T09:52:00.000-05:002008-01-03T09:52:00.000-05:00Sounds lovely to me. And, well, can I poach some ...Sounds lovely to me. And, well, can I poach some of this for my Kazoo paper? Seriously, I'd like to use MKH's class analogy, and use ITM as an example of one of the many really high-level ways where blogging may not be specifically scholarly, but is (or can be) an absolutely professional activity. My own blog resolution is to keep up better. And write more.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41069209653697658512008-01-03T04:44:00.000-05:002008-01-03T04:44:00.000-05:00well - as you will have noticed - i never have got...well - as you will have noticed - i never have got the hang of formal or well-considered web posts - so this all sounds good. But Karl - correcting people when you think they are wrong is ok - isn't that the stuff of academic debate? (See - how could this work if we could never disagree?)<BR/><BR/>One thing I have never mastered is webspeak. I treat the web as conversational rather than literary, but miss the inflection and rapidity of the spoken word. Guess that is why they invented the smiley - :D<BR/><BR/>srj - in ill-considered hasteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-14244303262865684352008-01-02T15:41:00.000-05:002008-01-02T15:41:00.000-05:00Firstly, on the book: does this mean I might final...Firstly, on the book: does this mean I might finally understand the humour of Late Medieval and Early Modern drama?<BR/><BR/>Secondly, on resolutions: <BR/><I>My new year's blog resolution is to embrace blogdom's casual format better, to embrace the else, and therefore to experiment more with ITM</I>.<BR/><BR/>JJC, you've inspired me (as all my co-bloggers regularly do). My blog-resolution this year is to take more risks in what I blog about -- to push myself to the limits of my understanding in what I think about in writing and to not be so self-conscious of "thinking aloud" in the blog world, particularly as I start this whole dissertation thing.Mary Kate Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892991966276345782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-39446451509109869682008-01-02T09:38:00.000-05:002008-01-02T09:38:00.000-05:00I should have said, "as for us." One more resoluti...I should have said, "as for us." One more resolution for 2008: to be less bombastic and less precious and less correcting people all the time.<BR/><BR/>Oh good! On the poop book. I read David Inglis's <I>A Sociological History of Excretory Experience: Defecatory Manners and Toiletry Technologies.</I> (Edwin Mellon P, 2000) during my diss and wished I had something better. Looks as though I'll get my wish.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-38699355251297799472008-01-02T09:26:00.000-05:002008-01-02T09:26:00.000-05:00A browse of some keywords in my scholarship: "midc...A browse of some keywords in my scholarship: "midcolonial," "In the Middle," "medial spaces," "difficult middles" ... it seems is fairly clear that purity of soul is not all that likely to come my way, either. <BR/><BR/>Speaking of shitty middles, or at least shit in the middle ages, <A HREF="http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403984883" REL="nofollow">there is this book coming soon.</A>Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-20006258723277548712008-01-02T08:40:00.000-05:002008-01-02T08:40:00.000-05:00As for me, I'm all about following that beacon to ...As for me, I'm all about following that beacon <I>to</I> shitty--or let's say impure--middles.<BR/><BR/>Let's see what 2008 brings us.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com