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  1. 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

  2. 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: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMo

    @cultura

    #culturalstudies #literarystudies #latinoamerica #spagna

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Or read Myka Tucker-Abramson's "Cartographies of Empire" for an in-depth analysis of the #roadnovel & its place in political economy, problematising the genre's #Americanness by discussing examples from 20+ countries

    #AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies #genrestudies #LiteraryStudies #Roadtrip

  9. Sneaking into this #MonsterMonday thread thanks to its name is
    "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love" by @philiphoare.bsky.social
    Why does #WilliamBlake continue to inspire poets, artists & filmmakers? Find out in this enthusiastic volume

    #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies

  10. 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

  11. Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!

    #LiteraryStudies #biographies

  12. 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

  13. 📖 O livro "Reis, Aristocratas e Burgueses: o mundo das cartas privadas (Portugal, séculos XVII-XX)" inclui um capítulo de autoria de @pedrourbano dedicado à correspondência familiar durante a primeira metade do século XIX associado à morte e luto.

    👉 edi-colibri.pt/produto/reis-ar

    #Histodons #Epistolografia #LiteraryStudies #19thCentury #18thCentury #Século19 #Século18 #EstudosLiterários #ModernHistory #Grief #Luto #Epistolography #Letters #Cartas

  14. What's that flapping noise? Might it be ... #vampires in our library?!

    On 04/04/25 for #NachtDerBibliotheken blood-thirsty creatures of the night will haunt SUB Göttingen in Dorothea Schuller's #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies talk on #libraries in #VampireFiction: #Dracula #Nosferatu #BtVS & more

    @subugoe

  15. 📰 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