tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post8622504139354943037..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: A Welcoming Pavilion of Thought: Weird ReadingCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53377038115254407072013-04-25T22:15:07.286-04:002013-04-25T22:15:07.286-04:00Hi Eileen,
Enjoyed this. And I agree that Old Engl...Hi Eileen,<br />Enjoyed this. And I agree that Old English is a great trove. The crucifixion told from the point of view of the cross -- if that's not alien phenomenology, I don't know what is!<br />Dave LindsayUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303934903607539683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62211624935317686432013-04-15T09:27:51.054-04:002013-04-15T09:27:51.054-04:00Hi Marion: thanks for the reminder of the Trilling...Hi Marion: thanks for the reminder of the Trilling and Stodnick book, which I know really well, actually, but funnily enough had not connected the two books together as being part of the same series [duh!]. I still lament this divide being inscribed over and over again, though.<br /><br />Steve: I'm not sure you can have the literary without the human, if we're talking about humans doing things with/to texts, but machines read machiens every day, and humans can also be conceptualized as objects interacting with other objects [that might be literary texts]. None of this, for me, is really post-human, as much as it is interesting to think about ways to de-center the traditional humanist-interpreter-hermeneut so that new interactions across human-text-other assemblages can occur, sparking new ways of thinking-with [hopefully]. I like the idea of pan-object studies.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-36770432451603966132013-04-15T05:03:11.177-04:002013-04-15T05:03:11.177-04:00Hi Eileen,
I just wanted to let you know that the ...Hi Eileen,<br />I just wanted to let you know that the reason that the Handbook of Middle English Studies doesn't deal much with Old English culture is that there is another complete volume in the series wholly devoted to OE - A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. Stodnick and Trilling - out last year. I've found this book a great resource for teaching recently; students have been particularly inspired by Treharne on 'Borders.' I'm entirely sympathetic to the problem of the abjection of the OE period - admittedly, this series *is* period based, and the Handbook of ME studies is self-conscious about the issues related to periodisation (there's an essay about it by David Matthews; and John Ganim's Postcolonialism piece also addresses the temporal colonialization of premodern literature). But putting the two periods into one volume would have made for an unwieldy book, or resulted in much less coverage (the ME volume comprises 26 essays). Hopefully, the two books will both get a lot of use by those of us who teach and/or research across the long medieval period. Incidentally, re new modes of reading, Geraldine's Heng's 'A Global Middle Ages,' essay is particularly relevant to this - I learnt a lot from this essay about how brilliantly a critic can employ surface/deep, distant/close, fast/slow reading strategies.marionturnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-61865926088250761022013-04-14T20:44:00.450-04:002013-04-14T20:44:00.450-04:00Great stuff! I particularly like the Borges-Harman...Great stuff! I particularly like the Borges-Harman inter-joust. (I do a little mashing of Bogost with Borges in the Prismatic Ecologies essay on "brown.") "Weird" is such a rich term for the disjunctive and unpredictable aspects of reading.<br /><br />If it's insistently & obsessively literary, is it still post-human? Or do we need a new term? Pan-object studies?Steve Mentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927244468764583378noreply@blogger.com