Raphael Lyne

Faculty of English and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. At work, I think mostly about Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, and Cognitive Science.

[Raphael Lyne @WhatLitKnows]

@greg_j_davis I'm not sure you can explain away bad dreams that easily, Greg...

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@m___ansar Congratulations, Mariam!

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@clamorousvoice I can't be the first or even the twentieth person to recommend Romeo and Juliet in Palestine by @tomsperlinger ... but just in case, I thought that was great when I read it.

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@FlorenceHazrat I take my cue (voting YES) from chess notation, where (I think) ?! means it's a dubious move, whereas !? means it could be a good move but it may be very flawed (or looks flawed). I wonder if computer analysis means that these are less common than they used to be.

[Orietta Da Rold @orietta_darold]

New: Professorship @englishunicam, the 'Grace 2' Chair @Cambridge_Uni No specified research area, the application deadline: 15th December. Come and work with us!

https://t.co/mJsEGN3KtE

[Raphael Lyne @WhatLitKnows]

This does a much better job of announcing our Professorial job than my rushed blank Retweet earlier today. What Priya says is all true!

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Okay. Now for a happier tweet. We @englishunicam are hiring a Full Professor--an established chair and it's open field. Don't tell anyone I said this but it's a pretty decent department to work in, fabulous students & there are loads of good people in it incl. obv me.

[Raphael Lyne @WhatLitKnows]

There have been a couple of new posts on my blog since I last mentioned it: https://t.co/lush2Dhqvb
The most recent one looks at research into why most people are not constantly flooded with involuntary thoughts about the past and the future.

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@jntod Also there are some interesting angles in a special issue of Cambridge Quarterly (https://t.co/Xv2HloNV27) on 'Cambridge English and China'. That started with a conference -- you were there for the closing reading by J.H. Prynne, I think.

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@jntod The MacCabe story isn't the only story, but I was interested to read about it in sociological terms: Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert, Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals.

[Raphael Lyne @WhatLitKnows]

Retweeting someone Tweeting what I should have Tweeted... If I am blogging again (which I am, tentatively for now) then I should be back on Twitter more. Thanks, Simon! https://t.co/lush2Dhqvb as he says.

[Simon John James @ProfSJJames]

Back! / Cognition in a Dish? https://t.co/E8gLhWIqPg via @WhatLitKnows

[Libby Tilley @LibTil]

Brilliant to hear Kasia Boddy @englishunicam wins the postgrad research supervisor student led teaching award @yourcambridgesu

[Raphael Lyne @WhatLitKnows]

@eileen__sperry Eileen, I'm so sorry to hear this. All best wishes from me.

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@V21collective There are excellent essays on 'we' in poetry in https://t.co/3n0Nmdo9kW, by @eileen__sperry and @cspaide (also one by me), and a response from Bonnie Costello, whose 'The Plural of Us' has rightly been mentioned already.

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@sjjackson32 @earlymodernjohn Looks like Shakespeare in his poems rhymes 'are' with care, compare, prepare, rare, snare, and unaware... According to the rhymes appendix of Shrank & Lyne 2017, you want Cercignani p. 104, Kökeritz p. 180, for how to say 'are' with the right piratical styling.

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@OliveFSmith Early months: Riverside Shakespeare plus World Atlas of Wine. (I love maps more than wine, to be honest.) More recently: a shoebox.

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@greg_j_davis @OliveFSmith Not sure that's true, Greg. But I think @TaraLLyons and her Anteloquy blog may have good things to offer, if you haven't found those already.

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@NoreenMasud I like looking inland from dunes on the North Norfolk coast, and seeing the first row of houses at the other side of the marsh. It makes me think of the (presumably long) process of trial and error that reassured them they had found a spot where their stuff wouldn't get wet.

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@maguiregeoff Jumanji?

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@clairiew @CUBotanicGarden I saw a badger crossing Grange Road last week, two nights in a row!