Morphosis

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Realism and Children's Literature

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Here's a bit from Elizabeth Segel's ‘Realism and Children's Literature: Notes from a Historical Perspective’ [ Children’s Litera...
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Friday, 21 March 2014

Polyfamous

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Πολύφημος (Polyphēmos) is the Cyclopean giant from Homer's Odyssey who imprisons and eats many of Odysseus' crew in his cave, such ...
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Sunday, 9 March 2014

William Johnson Cory, 'Nascitur cygnus' ('Cygnet is born'; 1877)

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Nascitur cygnus: sibi rex videtur, Impiger pigrae dominus paludis Matris in dorso sedet, it reditque      Publica cura. Pascitur frustr...
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Saturday, 8 March 2014

Moon poem

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The moon is its own coin. The moon is its own ghost. The moon is its own moon.
Thursday, 6 March 2014

'Taking' Offence

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The crucial question, I suppose, is: does taking offence at something tend to empower or disempower us? Is it the latter, because it reveal...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Talking animals

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I was chatting with my friend and colleague Bob today about the coding of holocaust victims as animals in testimony and literary representat...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

1670 Marginalia Puzzle

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This rather interesting MS letter has been sent to me (or a scan of it has, which amounts to the same thing in this our digital 21st-cen...
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