#LiteraryStudies
October 13, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Feel inspired by the #NobelPrize in Literature to explore #AnneCarson 's writings, or read about her in comparison to other authors of #CanadianLiterature ? Our collection offers a great starting point!
(We got more but some books are already with eager readers!)

#CanadianStudies #LiteraryStudies
October 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Happy Pub Date to TENGO SED: An Anthology of Works Celebrating Black Voices, Identities, & Personhood edited by Yndia Lorick-Wilmot & Natasha Gordon-Chipembere!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#BlackStudies #CaribbeanStudies #LiteraryStudies #Photography #Poetry #WomensStudies #LatinxStudies
October 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
October 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Review alert! ✍️ ‘Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience' by Bryan Counter has been reviewed by Jonathan Boulter for ‘The Comparatist’. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/24c72s4x @projectmuse.bsky.social #LiteraryStudies #ContinentalPhilosophy #AnthemPress #FraminghamU #bookreview #JonathanBoulter
October 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Book Teaser! ‘The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader’, edited by S. E. Gontarski, is an indispensable guide to the restless, rigorously inventive field of Beckett studies. See here ➡️ tinyurl.com/bd559xmr #FSU #SamuelBeckett #BeckettStudies #Modernism #LiteraryStudies #newreads #AnthemPress #bookteaser
October 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
"Fictions of Consent" by Urvashi Chakravarty looks how #slavery and fictions of race were crafted in the rhetorics & ideologies of servitude in Early Modern England

#History #BritishHistory #EarlyModernHistory #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
October 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM
I survey an example of bad amateur methodology in biblical studies from (today) R.G. Price and (tomorrow) David Oliver Smith. Part 2 will explain the lesson.

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#biblestudy #history #methodology #HistoricalMethods #probability #LiteraryStudies #gospels #bible
How Bad Methodology Led to Some Bad Ideas from R.G. Price and David Oliver Smith: Part 1 (Price) • Richard Carrier Blogs
I have often noted or even used good ideas from amateur scholars like David Oliver Smith and R.G. Price (not to be confused with Robert M. Price). I even named Price in my original study of the histor...
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October 1, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Let's look at 3 new books in our collection in #IrishStudies!
Molly Ferguson's "Banshees, Hags & Changelings" examines #folklore transformed into contemporary Irish literature by feminist writers who employ a range of folkloric figures

#IrishLiterature #FeministLiterature #LiteraryStudies
September 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Review alert! ✍️ ‘Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience' by Bryan Counter has been reviewed by Hywel Dyx for ‘Partial Answers’. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/45f4ktjj @projectmuse.bsky.social #LiteraryStudies #Aesthetics #AestheticExperience #AnthemPress #FraminghamU #bookreview #HywelDyx
September 30, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Queering 20th-century Irish Women's Writing" by naoise murphy collects Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen & Molly Keane - "uneasy Moderns" thru the lens of #QueerStudies & #PostcolonialStudies, unsettling narratives of progress

#IrishLiterature #LiteraryStudies
September 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death : Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry by Toby Widdicombe has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4dbo7Hn

#LiteraryStudies
September 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
❓ MARLAS Monday

Latin America has a rich literary tradition shaped by many different movements and voices.

Which Latin American literary movement would you like to learn more about?

Let us know in the comments!

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #LatinAmericanLiterature #LiteraryStudies
September 28, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Rethinking #translation - that's the idea of Douglas Robinson's book "Translating the Nonhuman". How do humans and non-humans communicate in #sciencefiction ? Robinson looks at Delaney's "Babel-17", Elgin's "Native Tongue" & Chiang's "Story of your Life"

#LiteraryStudies #TranslationStudies
September 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
And another book on the Nonhuman in #SpeculativeFiction
"Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts" by David P. Rando applies the methodology of #AnimalStudies to the works of Octavia E. Butler, Philip K. Dick, K. Ishiguro, J. Winterson & J. M. Coetzee

#sciencefiction #LiteraryStudies
September 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Forthcoming! Explores the humanist criticism of Lionel Trilling and Edward Said through a critical analysis of their influences and the changing landscapes of literary studies. See here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2j7xa4jt #CheyneyUniv #LionelTrilling #EdwardSaid #LiteraryStudies #HumanistCriticism #AnthemPress
September 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Notice how stodgy the books behind him look in contrast to his stated lust for living life to its fulllest

#MonochromeCreeps
#BeachGirlsAndTheMonster
#film
#literarystudies
#subtext
September 20, 2026 at 3:17 AM
For all the fab #LiteraryStudies people in other time zones I am repeating my new #Austen book announcement.
Available for preorder with a discount at Bloomsbury (& the paperback is normal people pricing!)
New revised flyer proof - this one will be going out in the mail to libraries and to #Austen clubs. If you would like some, or the original image file, please let me know!
Preorders are currently 15% off at Bloomsbury's website - including the ebook!
#NewBooks
September 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
📚 Today’s featured title from @uexeterpress.bsky.social:

1948 by Brian May explores the political, cultural & intellectual context surrounding George Orwell’s 1984.

Save 20% with code 3043-26 through Oct. 1.

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#GeorgeOrwell #1984 #LiteraryStudies
September 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
The study explores how genuine, internally motivated faith shapes the characters’ experiences and spiritual development. #LiteraryStudies #ReligiousStudies #IntrinsicReligiousOrientation #TheJourneyOfGrace #TKChapin #LiteratureAndReligion doi.org/10.34291/BV2...
September 14, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The study explores how genuine, internally motivated faith shapes the characters’ experiences and spiritual development. #LiteraryStudies #ReligiousStudies #IntrinsicReligiousOrientation #TheJourneyOfGrace #TKChapin #LiteratureAndReligion doi.org/10.34291/BV2...
September 14, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Join us for the first of this year's BACLS online seminars, on Friday 18 September 2026, from 2pm to 3pm. Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier) and Jay Shelat (Ursinus College), will be asking: 'Can we stop saying post-9/11 now?' Sign up here:
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#BACLS #LiteraryStudies
Arin Keeble & Jay Shelat, 'Can we stop saying "post-9/11" now?' · Luma
Join us in the first of this year's BACLS seminars for a talk and Q&A discussion with Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier) and Jay Shelat (Ursinus College). We'll…
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September 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
How did Kurt Vonnegut's wartime experiences shape his most enduring literature? Susan Farrell’s “Vonnegut’s War” is featured in this @literaryhub.bsky.social excerpt.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/4xJMu7n

#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut describes the train arriving in Dresden at five o’clock that afternoon: “The boxcar doors were opened, and the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever s…
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September 11, 2026 at 11:20 AM