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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: March 2015
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Saturday, 14 March 2015. This is what I wrote two years ago. There is very little I can add. I am tremendously privileged to have a research leave every seventh term, just about once in two years. Can life get any better? Posted by Maria Nikolajeva. Wednesday, 11 March 2015. Deep in a dream. I have...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: February 2014
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Friday, 28 February 2014. Books I will never read. A blog post from Guardian. Has caused some discussion on Facebook, and I have challenged my young colleague to list – and justify – a hundred books we will never read. The easiest thing is sequels to books I disliked, such as. Books I don't want to...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: My contribution to the Harper Lee controversy
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Sunday, 26 July 2015. My contribution to the Harper Lee controversy. Unless I had actually read it. I decided that I would read it for what it was, without comparing it to Mockingbird. As a professional reader, I can do it. One star on Goodreads. To Kill a Mockingbird. In schools is pointless and e...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: Five children and all the rest
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Thursday, 19 February 2015. Five children and all the rest. Edith Nesbit has been a landmark ever since I read Five children and it. I wrote my second academic article, in Russian, on Nesbit in 1979, and it was later revised and published in English in the inaugural issue of Marvels and Tales.
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: Things I don't do anymore: Final reflections
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Tuesday, 6 January 2015. Things I don't do anymore: Final reflections. The posts in this series are: kite-flying. And traveling by train. Posted by Maria Nikolajeva. Did you know there is a monthly stitchers club in Milton? Im sure theyd be happy for you to bring knitting. 7 January 2015 at 13:36.
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: October 2014
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Friday, 31 October 2014. Reflections on gifted children and pushy parents. Yesterday I went to a talk by my young colleague Cl é. Mentine Beauvais whose current research is about gifted children. Are my children gifted and are we pushy parents? I have already told the story of my parents' disappoin...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: January 2015
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Tuesday, 6 January 2015. Things I don't do anymore: Final reflections. The posts in this series are: kite-flying. And traveling by train. Posted by Maria Nikolajeva. Monday, 5 January 2015. Things I don't do anymore: Traveling by train. The earlier posts in this series are: kite-flying. Transcaucas...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: May 2014
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Friday, 30 May 2014. Undergraduate memories, part 3. So what did I do with my time? Sometimes I made plans to go to Leningrad where the University had a strong Scandinavian department. I even thought about going to Tartu in Estonia and study semiotics with Yuri Lotman. But these were sandca...Very ...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: December 2014
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. Things I don't do anymore: Celebrating New Year with pomp and circumstance. The earlier posts in this series are: kite-flying. Now I cook lobster thermidor for dinner, and we go to bed half past midnight. Swedish time. Posted by Maria Nikolajeva. Chanterelles are best f...
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog: June 2014
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Confessions of a displaced hedgehog. A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced. Sunday, 22 June 2014. 8221; “Gunnel Linde”, I said without hesitation. Gunnel wrote a wonderful poem for my fiftieth birthday and read it at dinner for my sixty guests. I know that she had already drifted into lands beyond and would probably not have recognised me. No excuse. My cucumber mu...Go se...
