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Laura Kolb

@laurakolb.bsky.social

early modernist, mostly https://laurakolb.com/

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Louise@selkies.bsky.social · last wk.

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

Eoin Price@eoinprice.bsky.social · last wk.

Reading Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's Odyssey (which I have not yet seen) reminds me of the discourse around Thomas Heywood's spectacle Red Bull plays in the 17th century. Like Nolan, Heywood took on Greek myths & was accused of favouring noise & spectacle over supposedly literary qualities.

Jess Zimmerman@jesszimmerman.com · 2w ago

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...

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michael röbbins@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 3w ago

sometimes i like to share a new poem instead of trying to get it published somewhere. i've been published in all the places i wanted to be published when i was young, so who cares. anyway, hope you like this, loosely inspired by the shijing

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half. I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread. The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn. A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.
Tom Rutter@obscuredrama.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please repost: Can you recommend a piece of writing (by you or anyone else) that sets out to make the writer's research in early modern lit/culture accessible to a general readership? I mean Conversation-type stuff but not necessarily The Conversation.

Matthew Harrison@matthewharrison.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My department at West Texas A&M is hiring a creative writer (with a Ph. D. required). Please encourage anyone you know who might be interested to apply. I'm also glad to answer any questions that anyone might have. Job listing here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WTAMU_Extern...

Assistant/Associate Professor of English

Job TitleAssistant/Associate Professor of English Agency West Texas A&M University Department English, Philosophy & Modern Languages Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Tex...

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Laura Kolb@laurakolb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Last semester, I got very excited about one endnote, then ALL the endnotes, in Wilson’s Iliad. Then @bookpostusa.bsky.social gave me the chance to write about them: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...

Diary: Laura Kolb, “Sing, Notes”

Venturing into the Iliad with new students and Emily Wilson’s notes

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Laura Kolb@laurakolb.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Did not expect to be called out by and then tear up at an endnote about the Iliad’s list of ships

Equiton Press@equiton.net · 6mo ago

It was used as a fortune-book. It was custom to write the professions of their future possible husbands in the margins, and then 'flip the pages' and then see what came out.

Laura Kolb@laurakolb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yesterday, nearing the end of a magical library fellowship, I called up The Rules of Civility, a conduct book written originally in French but very popular in Restoration England. Curiously someone has written “A Tanner” in the right-hand margin…

Title page of The Rules of Civility, printed in London in 1685. In the right-hand margin, “a tanner” has been written in ink
András Kiséry@andrask.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I was so happy to be in Reps that I forgot to brag about it here. The book trade, their catalogs, and how they made literature. First stab at something that is part of a bigger project. Abstract below, dm for pdf if you don’t have access.

Useless BooksBooksellers’ Catalogs, Puritans, and Our Categories of Literature

The catalog is a technology that mediates access to books and also mediates its users’ cultural categories. In a 1657 catalog, the bookseller William London effectively created a category for what we ...

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