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Julia

@juliaboitani

Medieval French, Prose Romance, Arthurian Literature and TV series. Pronouns: she/her. Quote: “you’re cooking pasta wrong”

Joined January 2012
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This killed all my weekend joy
Josh Shepperd (@joshshepperd) profile pictureJosh Shepperd@joshshepperd26 Jan 2023
I got one for you: zero of my one hundred students had heard of Depeche Mode today. Zero.
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“Tristan’s origins: Foucault, history and genealogy in the prehistory of the prose Tristan” is out on Romanic Review! read.dukeupress.edu/romanic-…
Tristan’s Origins: Foucault, History, and Genealogy in the Prehistory of the Prose Tristan

Tristan’s Origins: Foucault, History, and Genealogy in the Prehistory of the Prose Tristan

Abstract. The initial section of the thirteenth-century Tristan en prose has been the subject of multiple critical investigations, mostly devoted to identifying its teleological purpose or figurative...

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I wouldn’t have had such a blatant symbol of British colonialism as Paddington the bear “thank” the queen “for everything” but hey that’s just me #jubileeconcert #Jubilee
@askryanair is the website down again? Can’t access flights anywhere, app or browser
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Replying to @iamjohnoliver
@iamjohnoliver still haunting Cambridge pubs #maypole
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I know I’m a bit of a conspiracy theorist so open question to #medievaltwitter. what do you read here? “I am the daughter of king..”
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You gotta love this Venetian doge from 1607 putting this British prat in his place: English Ambassador Il che mi fà ricordare d' un proverbio Irlandese, et assai volgare, dimaniera che è in bocca di tutte quelle barbare genti (1/2)
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(2/2) che quando si tratta de riconciliarsi coll'inimico bisogna metter un altra serratura alla Porta. Doge: il proverbio Irlandese[…]che in vero è degno di essere conservato nella memoria di ciascuno al pari di qualunque detto di Tucidide,ò d'altri scrittori antichi,et moderni
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Poor Ralph
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Teenage Italians just using Dante quotes for their teenage needs should be something we talk about more
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Il naufragar m’è dolce in questo pudding @jonnywiles
Did anyone else get the feeling that Colin Robinson in the new season of #WhatWeDointheShadows was trying to tell us that Uncle Colm from #DerryGirls is an energy vampire ?
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I’m 30 today
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My mom telling us about her hitchhiking her way across Ireland in 71: so I got to Belfast and looked for the train station - you know, to sleep in, but it was too noisy so went to the park but it was raining so I knocked on a door for shelter. Figured out at 6am it was a brothel
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Literally what I’ve been trying to figure out this week
Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) profile pictureBrandon Bradford@BrandonLBradfor29 Aug 2021
Is it a serious medical issue or are you over 30 and haven't admitted to yourself that you can't eat certain foods anymore?
Ok so my main take away from #Cruella is that Pongo and Perdita are BROTHER AND SISTER
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“90 % of life is showing up and keeping your mouth shut” Frankie Bergstein and her life lessons @GraceandFrankie
Once I served this family that was discussing which high school to send their kid. They were talking about mine so I said it was good. The dad said “if it’s such a good school why are YOU a waitress”. I was new and hadn’t been mentored on sneeze-related revenge.still haunts me
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There’s a joke in here somewhere about Pontius Pilate and washing hands..
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Spend half a morning with stefano’s nonna scouting for some lake eel out of fishermans’ trunks and Stefano goes and catches one in the sea. Capitalism doesn’t work.
When Agamben and Francesca Donato use the same awful rhetoric it is, indeed, time to drop the former.
Martin Paul Eve (@martin_eve) profile pictureMartin Paul Eve@martin_eve23 Jul 2021
It's time we dropped Agamben eve.gd/2021/07/23/its-time-w…
It's time we dropped Agamben

It's time we dropped Agamben

Giorgio Agamben gets around a lot on literature syllabi. His “What is the Contemporary?” is a staple of theoretical courses, his concept of “bare life” is used to think through the structures of...

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