home.social

#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #literarystudies, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Maio, a conferência internacional "Literatura & Sociedade" vai examinar as potencialidades do encontro entre as ciências sociais e a literatura, através de uma obra literária e do seu papel na leitura dos processos sociais.

    As suas actividades vão-se distribuir entre a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a Casa da Achada e o Museu do Neo-Realismo (VFX).

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literat

    #Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History

  2. This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
    Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature

    #mothersday #Ecofeminism

  3. Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them

    #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

  4. 5 new arrivals on the #MiddleAges for the middle of the week!
    This book by Ian Cornelius attempts a reconstruction of #alliteration in #MedievalLiterature such as Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight or Piers Plowman

    #EnglishLiterature #metre #MedievalPoetry #LiteraryStudies

  5. In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

    #PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

  6. In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

    #PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

  7. In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

    #PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

  8. In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

    #PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

  9. Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
    Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection!

    #JohnFowles #Postmodernism #EnglishLiterature #OTD

  10. Of course you have to send us a postcard from your trips, pretty please! 💝 Find inspiration in this book on #postcards in #Modernism by Bradley D. Clissold, focussing on postcards in the fiction & correspondence of #Hemingway #RingLardner #Joyce & #WilfredOwen

    #MaterialCulture #LiteraryStudies

  11. Book 3), "Toxic Nostalgia on Screen" is an essay collection ed. by Simon Bacon on how the past haunts and feeds on us. 21st c #popculture & #Gothic / #Horror examples illustrate the toxic "undead memory"

    #CulturalStudies #MemoryStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies

  12. Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

    #FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

  13. Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

    #FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

  14. Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

    #FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

  15. 🧩📚 How can we #evaluate poetic interpretations produced by #LLMs in a way that aligns with #LiteraryStudies?
    The authors propose a #workflow grounded in reference #interpretations and argumentative structures from literary scholarship, enabling the #assessment of LLM-generated readings.

  16. 🆕 New issue, new article!
    We’re excited to open JCLS 2026, 5(1) with its very first publication:
    “Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary #Imageability, #Visuality and #Concreteness via Multimodal Word #Embeddings” by Bizzoni, Feldkamp & Nielbo. 📖✨
    #JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryStudies

  17. 🎉 Milestone alert! 🎉
    We’re thrilled to announce our 50th article!

    New in JCLS 4(1): @skorinkin & @nevmenandr “The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature”🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4228
    #JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies

  18. This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

    #BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

  19. "The International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature", ed.s Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. Davis, asks what is distinctly #Scottish in #ChildrensLiterature by #ScottishWriters - from #PeterPan or #TreasureIsland to recent works, incl plays & poetry 🏴
    #ScottishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

  20. Join us for the next talk in our RTG 2571 “Empires” Ringvorlesung, Temporality of Imperial Violence.

    🗓️ 6 November 2025, 18:00–20:00, HS 1015 (KG I).

    Professor Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin): “Archival Poetics: Containing Affects of Un/Belonging in British Memorial Culture.” Language: English. Bring your questions—discussion welcome.
    @empires @unifreiburg @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @HistoMartin @teresa_mayer @ElenLeFoll @sociology @politicalscience

    #empires #imperialviolence #slowviolence #colonialism #postcolonial #decolonial #powerdynamics #histodons #history #academicmastodon #histodon #empire #literarystudies

  21. Waiyee Loh's "Empire of Culture" examines late 20th & early 21st c #NeoVictorian texts & practices (from #ASByatt to #GothicLolita fashion & more) from GB, US, Japan & Singapore in relation to British #Colonialism & heritage industry & #Postcolonialism

    #LiteraryStudies #PopCulture #CulturalStudies

  22. Day 2 of #DGAVL 2025 #conference had fascinating talks by Daniel Weidner on confessions in the #autofiction s of KO Knausgard, Annie Ernaux & Sheila Heti, and by Sara R Gallardo on #autobiographies by psychiatrized authors, from 19th c to today #MadMovement #MadStudies

    #LiteraryStudies

  23. In the GAPS #conference panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism", Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema / #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis

    #PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies

  24. #callforpapers

    MATERIALITY MATTERS. FIGURATIONS OF COMIC BODIES AND THINGS – Annual conference of the Network "Comic Literacies – Kulturtechniken des Komischen"

    13-15 November 2025
    Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)

    Deadline: 15 June 2025

    👉 Further information: performing-arts.eu/de/news/new

    #kulturwissenschaften #culturalstudies #humanitites #theaterstudies #literarystudies #theaterwissenschaft ##comedy #universitätduisburgessen

  25. 📰 Começamos o ano com uma recomendação de leitura, via @Publico, cujo crítico considera "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, "um trabalho de investigação provavelmente definitivo sobre a viagem de Eça ao Egipto para assistir à faustosa inauguração do Canal de Suez". 💪

    publico.pt/2025/01/02/culturai

    #Histodons #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Egipto #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #NovoLivro #Século19 #19thCentury #LiteraryStudies

  26. "Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago" - Pippa Marland's 2023 book explores creative non-fiction on the theme of islands through the lens of the #Anthropocene & #Ecocriticism 🏝️

    #IslandStudies #BlueHumanities #WorldEmojiDay #LiteraryStudies

  27. Calling all #contingent literary scholars! Did you publish an article or book in 2022? Laura Hartmann-Villalta and I are putting together a list to be published in Contingent Mag so please reply or email me the deets: [email protected]. All languages & lit studies fields welcome! 2021 list is here for ref: contingentmagazine.org/2021/12 Please boost & spread the word! #litodons #LiteraryStudies