Catherine Eisner
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
D-r Tchékhov: A Textbook Case . . . Prof. Yanychev’s Three-Cornered Duel
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I have mentioned on a number of occasions the existence of the manuscript, A Textbook Case , putatively by Chekhov, which fell into the poss...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Doctor! Doctor! An interpretess’s problems with grammatical gender in possessives . . .
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A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies. The son is rushed to hospital. The surgeon arrives, but says ‘I cannot operate on ...
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Monday, 4 July 2016
A Touch of Fever: the Poisoning of a Philandering Husband.
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Another specimen of poésie trouvée struck me the other day when reading the transcript of an inquest into a case of death by domestic poiso...
Friday, 17 June 2016
Maimed Hero: Frankenstein Exhumed . . . Tragic Monster in Nelson’s Own Image? A Bicentennial Investigation.
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Frankenstein was born exactly 200 years ago (the draft plotted on June 17 1816, following a terrifying ‘waking’ nightmare dreamed by Mary ...
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