Set Yet Speaking
A blog about that fusty old thing called philology
Dr Nik Gunn is a linguist, literary historian and translator.
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Translating Beowulf
Between Philolgy And Desire, Part 3 Ok, we’ve waited long enough: it’s time to dig into why I called this series Between Philology and Desire. We’ll get to that soon,… Read more ⇢
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On the challenge of translating ancient literature
Between Philology and Desire, Part 2 Last summer, I read a piece by Brian Merchant on how modern AI technology has decimated translation jobs. It featured interviews with a number… Read more ⇢
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The Wanderer
The role of empathy in reading pre-modern literature The Wanderer was the first piece of Old English literature that really grabbed me. Sure, Beowulf had all the stuff I expected from an early… Read more ⇢
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Why translation matters for studying literary history
Between Philology and Desire, Part 1 “It was as if, on the analogy of baptism by desire, I had undergone something like illumination by philology.” Seamus Heaney When I went… Read more ⇢
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Welcome
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since… Read more ⇢
Dr Nik Gunn 