#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #literarystudies, aggregated by home.social.
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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 -
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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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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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! -
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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The edited volume "Care and Disability", edited by D. Christopher Gabbard & @taliaschaffer1 offers new perspectives on the representations on the relation between the carer & the cared-for, and #CareEthics in a variety of #Literature s & contexts
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Contrasting work & play, "Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" by Matthew Leggatt looks at playfulness and labour, boredom & the future of play in literature, films & TV series, from #ThomasMore to #SquidGame
#Utopia #Dystopia #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #TVStudies #FilmStudies
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... and Nicole Königsknecht's talk on reading Alicia Elliott's "And Then She Fell" & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Noopiming: A Cure for White Ladies" through the lens of appetites & consumption
#CanadianLiterature #CanadianStudies #IndigenousStudies #IndigenousWriters #LiteraryStudies
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... and Nicole Königsknecht's talk on reading Alicia Elliott's "And Then She Fell" & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Noopiming: A Cure for White Ladies" through the lens of appetites & consumption
#CanadianLiterature #CanadianStudies #IndigenousStudies #IndigenousWriters #LiteraryStudies
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... and Nicole Königsknecht's talk on reading Alicia Elliott's "And Then She Fell" & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Noopiming: A Cure for White Ladies" through the lens of appetites & consumption
#CanadianLiterature #CanadianStudies #IndigenousStudies #IndigenousWriters #LiteraryStudies
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100 years ago today, #JosephConrad died. The Polish-British author of classics such as #HeartofDarkness has his own shelf in our reading room at SUB Göttingen - but you can order many other texts by & on #Conrad via the online catalogue!