fredag 31. mars 2023

The poem I just wrote - a poem by Joy Harjo

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For the end of a long and intense month where breaks and pauses have been few and far between, I give you a short and beautiful poem by Joy ...
mandag 27. mars 2023

The violence of Peter Wilkins - violence and Utopia in an eighteenth-century novel

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For years I have been fascinated with Utopian fiction, i.e., stores that depict ideal societies, usually serving as a form of contemporary s...
lørdag 25. mars 2023

The Madonna of Enebakk Church

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Today is the feast of the Annunciation, and to mark this feast I present you, briefly and succinctly, with this Madonna with the Christ-chil...
søndag 12. mars 2023

Creative googling and its consequences - or, Adventures in medievalism, part 4

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  Friday, March 10, I gave a seminar on Vikings in medievalism, explaining how our current ideas about Vikings were shaped by the renewed in...
tirsdag 28. februar 2023

The Bridge of Fire - a poem by James Elroy Flecker

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  To close this month, I briefly give you the short version of James Ellroy Flecker's wonderful poem "The Bridge of Fire", of ...
søndag 26. februar 2023

Reading-spots, part 2

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  In the previous blogpost , I began a new series of posts which consists of short presentations of spots where I have had memorable reading...
lørdag 25. februar 2023

Reading-spots, part 1 - glimpses from a personal history of reading

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As I have spent more and more time reflecting on reading, I have also begun to dwell more on the various other aspects connected to the read...