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manymanyplies.bsky.social
Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Currently writing: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
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Kathryn Murphy considers the singular vision of the art historian Svetlana Alpers and her career-long commitment to wrestling with ‘getting the experience of looking into words’.

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Much enjoyed thinking about Svetlana Alpers's brilliant books & essays, their animating tension between description and narration, and their commitment to singularity -- her own, the painter's, the painting's. Thanks to Apollo and Fatema Ahmed, as ever.

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To even my own surprise, I appear to have written an essay in a volume on Walter Pater. Many congratulations to the editors, and thanks to their patience with my c19th noviceishness. I wrote about what Pater means by 'quaintness'. Very much looking forward to reading the other contributions.

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Thrilling poem by A.E. Stallings in the LRB: asking the testing question 'What's left for brains to do?', and answering it in gorgeous form. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 526 days ago • 1 comment

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

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If there's one thing I know, it's that I'm looking forward to this event, celebrating two brilliant books on the known and unknown unknowns of the early modern period! Join us... www.rensoc.org.uk/event/ignora...

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WOLF is out today! and I'm saying this in English because the book was born from @eparpillee.bsky.social and @manymanyplies.bsky.social's lockdown bestiary and I'd like to say thank you to them

submitted 548 days ago • 5 comments

This annotator @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 36 is John Foxe, teller of gory tales of Protestant martyrs. He is having a laugh.

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Good, Gooder, Goodest! Cambridge Quarterly invites doctoral students, & those recently completed, to submit a critical essay on literature &/or other art forms for the Gooder Essay Prize. Publication & £300 the winner's reward. Deadline 24 Nov. Supervisors, tell your students! Deets:

submitted 566 days ago • 0 comments

Good, Gooder, Goodest! Cambridge Quarterly invites doctoral students, & those recently completed, to submit a critical essay on literature &/or other art forms for the Gooder Essay Prize. Publication & £300 the winner's reward. Deadline 24 Nov. Supervisors, tell your students! Deets:

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Late to say so (have been distracted), but this is happening tomorrow! But not where it says it is: Large Seminar Room, Rothermere American Institute.

submitted 568 days ago • 0 comments

Not everything on the hellsite is hellish.

submitted 570 days ago • 1 comment

Attention @chrisbrooke.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

submitted 573 days ago • 0 comments

Writing so painful, editing such joy. A shame I have to go through the former in order to get to the latter.

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We're hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on Written Worlds in 17th-century England at Birkbeck, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and me (CI), focusing on #EarlyModern non-elite writers. £42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

submitted 581 days ago • 2 comments

The Ashmolean's COLOUR exhibition is fantastic. I was too dazzled by the iridescence to take photos, but I was much taken with shades of blue: Ruskin's kingfisher's wing, Millais's blue velvet, and Anna Atkins's vivid cyanotypes. Go, go, go again!

submitted 582 days ago • 2 comments

Dipping a trepid toe in this untwittering world. Who else is here?

submitted 583 days ago • 5 comments