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The Paramaterial Phantasy

Petrarch’s Cat and the Casa del Petrarca: The Excremental Remainder of Literary Tourism

Having previously written three separate entries on cats, I reluctantly post this for fear of becoming identified as a cat blog.1 My first cat post concerned identifying the strange woodcut on William Griffith’s 1570 edition of William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, which, although presenting original research, sadly remains the least viewed of my cat trilogy. […]

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Pleasure Reading: A Reminder that I Needn’t a Pen to Read

As a graduate student spending far too many years in the pursuit of my PhD in literature, I am used to reading with a pen in hand.  The copious notes, the marginal glosses, the half-worked out system of asterisks, underlies, circles and boxes have become, detrimentally, part of my reading practice.  When my then girlfriend, […]

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