Blurton

I passed this on to my friend Richard Blurton, head of the South Asia section at the British Museum, who had arranged to facilitate the class in small groups so that they could play with Mughal games – while I was to work with them in the Great Court.

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The first In the Middle “book club” event featured contributions from Susan Kim, Heather Blurton and Asa Mittman.

Archive 2008-01-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

In some senses, his argument squares with the recent work on the poem done by Heather Blurton: in her dissertation, and its rendering in book form, Blurton argues that we might productively read the poem not merely for its conversion narrative, but for its “cannibal narrative” – a narrative that tells a story of invasion and conquest and the subsequent, postcolonial hybridity that results.

Fragments Shattered by History Mary Kate Hurley 2008

In some senses, his argument squares with the recent work on the poem done by Heather Blurton: in her dissertation, and its rendering in book form, Blurton argues that we might productively read the poem not merely for its conversion narrative, but for its “cannibal narrative” – a narrative that tells a story of invasion and conquest and the subsequent, postcolonial hybridity that results.

Archive 2008-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Clearly, Blurton picks up on the same tendency which Aaron highlights: the citation of other Anglo-Saxon poems is used to an effect in Andreas, and to read the poem in any other light flattens a nuanced reading – performed by the poem – of those texts, and the culture which produced them.

Fragments Shattered by History Mary Kate Hurley 2008

If the self is related to the other in Andreas through a metaphoric act of consumption, devoration, or put in the slightly more post-colonial term favored by Blurton, incorporation – the question raised becomes more than simply one of “self” and “other” per se.

Archive 2008-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Clearly, Blurton picks up on the same tendency which Aaron highlights: the citation of other Anglo-Saxon poems is used to an effect in Andreas, and to read the poem in any other light flattens a nuanced reading – performed by the poem – of those texts, and the culture which produced them.

Archive 2008-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

The first In the Middle “book club” event featured contributions from Susan Kim, Heather Blurton and Asa Mittman.

Old English, New Media: or, Friday Night Meta-Blogging Mary Kate Hurley 2008

If the self is related to the other in Andreas through a metaphoric act of consumption, devoration, or put in the slightly more post-colonial term favored by Blurton, incorporation – the question raised becomes more than simply one of “self” and “other” per se.

Fragments Shattered by History Mary Kate Hurley 2008

For a guy representing one of the most eloquent politicians, Burton should be more careful and should not become a Blurton in his eagerness to post post-haste replies.

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