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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 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literatura-sociedade/
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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! -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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🧩📚 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. -
🆕 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 -
🎉 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”🔗 https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4228
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies -
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
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"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 -
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
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For #MonsterMonday you might also want to take note of the #CfP #CallforPapers for next year's #Inklings symposium:
#Inklings2026 conference will focus on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic" - #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #ComicsStudies #DnD #TVStudies & more -
Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne
Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature
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Simone Broders gave a #PostcolonialStudies reading of familiarity & alienness in the #StarTrek movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and (its reading of) the #Klingon #Hamlet
#Shakespeare #LiteraryStudies #PopCulture #Inklings #Inklings2025 #ScienceFiction
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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
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📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:
https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/
#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
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📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:
https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/
#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
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📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:
https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/
#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
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📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:
https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/
#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
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📗 "Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez: Viagem, Orientalismo e Império", de Teresa Pinto Coelho, foi uma das leituras de Verão recomendadas por João Carlos Espada no Observador:
https://observador.pt/opiniao/livros-para-ferias-3/
#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #EçaDeQueirós #Egypt #Egipto #EstudosLiterários #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #Século19 #19thCentury #SummerBooks #LivrosDeVerão #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
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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
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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
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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: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/cfp-materiality-matters-figurations-of-comic-bodies-and-things-conference/
#kulturwissenschaften #culturalstudies #humanitites #theaterstudies #literarystudies #theaterwissenschaft ##comedy #universitätduisburgessen
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📖 The journal Geographies published a paper by a group of members of the #FIREUSES project on "Pyrostories", ie, Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative.
🔓 #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies4040039
@histodons
@litstudies
@envhum
@envhist#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #LiteraryLandscapes #Portugal #Wildfires #ModernHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #HistóriaAmbiental #PaisagensLiterárias #Fogos #GeografiaCultural #CulturalGeography #Incêndios
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#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X
#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature
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📰 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". 💪
#Histodons #LitStudies #EçaDeQueiroz #Egipto #Literatura #Viagens #Egito #NovoLivro #Século19 #19thCentury #LiteraryStudies
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"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
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Klaus A Uellenberg's study gives a compact overview of #Kennedy's representation in post-1963 fiction, drama and poetry, and his status in American #CollectiveMemory
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=747525730
#JFK60 #JohnFKennedy
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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: https://contingentmagazine.org/2021/12/20/2021-literary-studies-book-article-list/ Please boost & spread the word! #litodons #LiteraryStudies