Category: writing
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Theoretically speaking
It’s been quite a week. First of all I had two days at home looking after my sick little boy. Then on Wednesday I went into Manchester to have a supervision meeting. I spent most of the day reading and managed to catch up with a few of my friends, which was nice because I…
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Splurge
I’ve spent a considerable proportion of the week splurging my second chapter. Second only in the sense of the second one that I’ve written, not that it will necessarily be the second one in the thesis. It feels good to have a bit more of it on paper, even if it isn’t really even a…
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Welcome to 2013
And so a new year begins. I have spent a lot of it so far cataloguing ballads, to the extent that my analysis spreadsheet is now so enormous that I am probably going to have to take it to the university print services department to get it printed out – I guess it will be…
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Back to writing
Yesterday, rather unexpectedly, I sat down and started writing again. I was overcome with an urge to sest my thoughts down on paper (well, computer screen) as I read the first publication in a ballad flyting from 1540. I wrote down what I thought about it, how I interpreted it and the background to is…
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