#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts

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

British author Brian Aldiss was #BOTD 100 years ago!
Apart from many famous #sciencefiction works, incl. his #Helliconia trilogy & "Supertoys Last All Summer Long", adapted as #Spielberg's "A.I.", he also wrote general fiction, poetry & non-fiction on SF

#BOTD #BrianAldiss #BrianAldiss100 #ScienceFictionWriters #BritishWriters #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature

🚨New book alert!🚨
Mateusz Świetlicki's 2023 monograph is unique in being the 1st one devoted to anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children's historical fiction, 1991-2021, analysing 41 children's books of diverse genres

#ChildrensLiterature #CanadianLiterature #CanadianStudies #LiteraryStudies #Ukaine #Canada

"A Gordian Shape of Dazzling Hue" by Greta Colombani looks at #serpent #symbolism in the #poetry of #Keats.

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=895364840

#AnimalSymbolism #EnglishLiterature #Romanticism #YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies

All fresh, shiny & new: 3 new additions to our collection for scholars of #Ireland, #IrishCulture & #IrishLiterature!

#LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #IrishWriters

Find out more about these brand-new books in this thread, and place a hold on them now via our online catalogue! 🧵

Today on my Patreon: I posted my Sturgeon Symposium presentation (there will be an article version later for everyone, G-d willing; but this is a fun bonus for backers :) )

It's titled "Transcendent Sharing" - Early Counter-Imaginaries of Gendered Magical Power in American Speculation.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/89693153

#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #TheodoreSturgeon #SturgeonSymposium #ZennaHenderson #CharlesFort #Forteana #Humanities #LiteraryStudies