#darkacademia — Public Fediverse posts
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“I hope we’re all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
In May 2026 I'll be offering a one-month standalone module on #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Everyone is invited! #WhyDunItMystery #Mystery #DarkAcademia #Gothic #TrueCrime #Bookstodon
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2437/
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March will be here soon!
I'm delighted to report that in Spring '26 I'll be offering two standalone (but related) modules with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Each focuses on an important novel related to the same real-life, #TrueCrime unsolved case. #DarkAcademia #PoliceProcedural #Books #Bookstodon
March: #LastSeenWearing by #HillaryWaugh: Discovering a Turning Point in #CrimeFiction
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0910/
May: #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt: Unpacking the 'WhyDunIt' #Mystery
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0912/
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“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*
#The-Secret-History #Donna-Tartt #book-quote #literature #quotes #dark-academia #perception #beauty #affinity #culture #intellectualism #read-books #support-your-local-library #be-curious -
Now confirmed! I am delighted to report that in Spring '26 I'll be offering two standalone (but related) modules with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Each focuses on an important novel related to the same real-life, #TrueCrime unsolved case. #DarkAcademia #PoliceProcedural
March: #LastSeenWearing by #HillaryWaugh: Discovering a Turning Point in #CrimeFiction
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0910/
May: #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt: Unpacking the 'WhyDunIt' #Mystery
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0912/
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The Rebel Angels. Satirical campus novel by Robertson Davies.
"some grotesquerie, some wrenching originality, is a necessary part of real scholarship, and brings a special glory with it." #grotesque
"Like the real-life Massey College, Ploughwright is a graduate college where scholars are invited to partake in interdisciplinary discussions and High Table dinners. "
#darkhumor #darkacademia #lightacadamia #academia #novel #satire #fiction #1980s #Canada #Gypsy #Rabelais
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It all started with #DonnaTartt's The Secret History - the ur-text of dark academia as it is defined today!
Read the novel: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=122144333
& consult the reader's guide by Tracy Hargreaves: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1628286903
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Book 35: “The Secret History” by #DonnaTartt.
I realize now that I have no idea what #DarkAcademia is as a genre (see my journey in this thread). This is supposedly the best example. Magic really isn’t part of it.
This book isn’t for me. Outside of my mistaken expectations, the characters are assholes (a requirement!) and it went on way too long. The writing at the start made me take notice—Tartt can *write*—but I just didn’t care for her world and its people.
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt (1992)Quote:
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does.7/32
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@aspiringcat
@bookstodon
@darkacademia
@benningtoncollege
@harrypotterA couple of thoughts:
Some folks consider #Hogwarts to be #DarkAcademia, and there are lots of #HarryPotter fans who would like to be students there.
I graduated from #BenningtonCollege, which #DonnaTartt used as a model for the college in "The Secret History." I occasionally ask myself whether I would choose that experience again, if I had a chance. I've never come to a firm conclusion!