#literarystudies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #literarystudies, aggregated by home.social.
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3) "All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020" by Heidi Siegrist uses Southerness as a way to explore queerness of sexuality & place in texts by Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, Randall Kenan, Dorothy Allison & even George RR Martin
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3 new arrivals on the Southern States of the USA! 🇺🇸
1) "The Weird South" by Melanie Benson Taylor analyses the duality of the weirdness of the #Anthropocene & the South in Postplantation #AmericanLiterature - tracing human responsibility, both for apocalypse & for deliverance -
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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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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"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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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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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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#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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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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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.