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NEW BOOK | 'Bourdieu and Literature' by John Speller
Hot off the press, this revised and corrected edition offers a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0522
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📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds youJulia Flattich reflects on the early stages of doctoral research: how an initially well-defined proposal develops through reading, discussion and new questions. Her post explores the challenges of balancing curiosity, academic relevance and feasibility—and why uncertainty can be an important part of the research process.
🔗 Read more: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/finding-the-perfect-phd-topic-or-how-it-finds-you/
#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires
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📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds youJulia Flattich reflects on the early stages of doctoral research: how an initially well-defined proposal develops through reading, discussion and new questions. Her post explores the challenges of balancing curiosity, academic relevance and feasibility—and why uncertainty can be an important part of the research process.
🔗 Read more: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/finding-the-perfect-phd-topic-or-how-it-finds-you/
#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires
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Out now!
STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie JaëckLooking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.
Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies
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Out now!
STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie JaëckLooking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.
Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies
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🔴 Online il nuovo numero di Enthymema, rivista di critica, teoria letteraria e filosofia della letteratura.
In questo numero, una sezione sulla diffusione della cultura #underground sovietica in Italia, dalla letteratura alla musica alle arti figurative
⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/issue/view/2848?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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🔴 Online il nuovo numero di Enthymema, rivista di critica, teoria letteraria e filosofia della letteratura.
In questo numero, una sezione sulla diffusione della cultura #underground sovietica in Italia, dalla letteratura alla musica alle arti figurative
⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/issue/view/2848?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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"The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk
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"The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk
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Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ?
Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies
Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing with #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities -
Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ?
Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies
Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing with #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities -
British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia"
#EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion
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British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia"
#EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion
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42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess
head over to: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/read-the-new-inklings-yearbook-42-in-open-access/
#LiteraryStudies #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies
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42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess
head over to: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/read-the-new-inklings-yearbook-42-in-open-access/
#LiteraryStudies #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies
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I'm very much looking forward to sharing this research and to the discussions that will follow. 🌿📜🎶
#UrbanCreativity #StreetArt #StreetPoetry #Haiku #LiteraryStudies #FanStudies #UrbanStudies #CulturalHeritage #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #Research #Utrecht #JacobVanEyck #PublicHumanities
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I'm very much looking forward to sharing this research and to the discussions that will follow. 🌿📜🎶
#UrbanCreativity #StreetArt #StreetPoetry #Haiku #LiteraryStudies #FanStudies #UrbanStudies #CulturalHeritage #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #Research #Utrecht #JacobVanEyck #PublicHumanities
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We are at the #Inklings #conference at TU Braunschweig on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic"! Yesterday, organisers Aylin Dilek Walder & Carsten Kullmann as well as Inklings Society president Armin Wallau welcomed us warmly to nicely air-conditioned rooms
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Online il nuovo numero della rivista di studi letterari e culturali #AltreModernità
Il numero 35 indaga, nelle #letterature di lingua spagnola, il rapporto fra la #scrittura e la #materialità nelle sue più diverse dimensioni: dagli oggetti, corpi e spazi che configurano l’esperienza, fino ai modi in cui tali elementi si fanno presenti nei testi.
⬇️ In #OpenAccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2824?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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Online il nuovo numero della rivista di studi letterari e culturali #AltreModernità
Il numero 35 indaga, nelle #letterature di lingua spagnola, il rapporto fra la #scrittura e la #materialità nelle sue più diverse dimensioni: dagli oggetti, corpi e spazi che configurano l’esperienza, fino ai modi in cui tali elementi si fanno presenti nei testi.
⬇️ In #OpenAccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2824?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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#CCLS2026: 12th and last talk is "From #LiteraryCriticism to #LiteraryStudies: #TopicModeling Argentine Academic Journals (1982–2024)" by Federico Gabriel Cortés, analyzing the topics of 42 years of academic publishing of literary studies research in Argentina.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7981
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#CCLS2026: 12th and last talk is "From #LiteraryCriticism to #LiteraryStudies: #TopicModeling Argentine Academic Journals (1982–2024)" by Federico Gabriel Cortés, analyzing the topics of 42 years of academic publishing of literary studies research in Argentina.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7981
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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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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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Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more
#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies
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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! -
We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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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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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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Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities
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Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities
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"How I Became a Tree" by Indian author Sumana Roy is a #nonfiction meditation about #trees & plants & our relation with them, from a perspective of how culture & the arts, science & spiritual leaders engage with nature & a re-enchanted world.
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3 new books on trees!🌳
The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset -
3 new books on trees!🌳
The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset -
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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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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Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates
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New #openaccess book!
'Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories' explores the #memory work and #mnemonic practices of families dispersed by political upheaval. It bridges historical and contemporary perspectives, combining #history, #sociology, #socialpsychology, #literarystudies, #culturalstudies, and cultural #anthropology. The book, edited by Johanna Leinonen et al., is available in PDF, accessible EPUB and print on demand at: https://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-35
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The Greatest Love Story of All Time for #ValentinesDay ?! A white #Heathcliff ?!
Absolutely not! ❌
But we got the real deal in our collection: the full #Gothic force of #EmilyBrontë 's #WutheringHeights - plus lots of resources for your research🖤 -
🧩📚 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 -
If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations
#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
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The latest issue of the Journal of Irish & Scottish Studies, vol. 12/1 (2025), is now available free online
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OUT NOW!
The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
Ed. by Cairns Craig
£24.95 | €29.95 | $29.95This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists – writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots – from the eighteenth century to the present, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form.
Available from all good booksellers & online via Project MUSE
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic10/
#Scottish #literature #novel #novels #novelists #literarystudies
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4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press