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Anne Babson posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
Listened today to a couple of interesting lectures from the Bibliotheque Nationale about the various manuscripts and social context of The Romance of the Rose.
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Anne Babson posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
Finished reading the trial transcript of Joan of Arc.
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Anne Babson posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
My reading of Chaucer’s meter is that it is not nearly as absolute in every line as later formalist verse would be in English. Even Shakespeare, whom we all know did write in iambic pentameter, breaks meter (example “To be or not to be: that is the question.”), and here, if we read “elles” and “swiche” as two-syllable words (anapestic), we end up…[Read more]
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Anne Babson posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
I edited an essay I wrote for inclusion in the conference proceedings of The First International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought, which took place in April at Sam Houston State University.
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Anne Babson posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
Just started a blog on MLA Commons about studying for Oral Comps.
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