Jaspreet Singh Boparai discusses "Caravaggio and Us" in The Editor's Desk (January 2026) with R.R. Reno. #LitCrit https://fefd.link/xbo84
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Just something pulled out of the vault for the nerds out there. #philosophy #Heidegger #LitCrit accordinglee.substack.com/p/on-reading...
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#litcrit #dickens #woolf #austen #toptenlists #greatnovels #englishnovel #writingcommunity
shakemyheadhollow.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/t...
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Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir as a masterclass in what happens when you have plot, lighting, and metaphors—but no actual self. . 🧠✍️ If the narrator never shows up, the memoir becomes the alibi. #WritingCommunity #Memoir #Psychology #AmWriting #LitCrit #WritersLife
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A new entry for the most unreliable Encyclopaedia imaginable: the man who claimed he shaped postwar British literature but never published a word of his own...
#booksky #literaryhistory #litcrit #HistoryIsAFiction #shortfiction
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On procrastination, perfectionism, and the terror of "good enough." New Calling the Abyss entry: the story of a man who writes perfectly but cannot finish.
#booksky #literaryhistory #litcrit #HistoryIsAFiction #shortfiction
callingtheabyss.substack.com/p/finch-dr-a...
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CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
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#SciFi #booksky #litcrit
A video about how mass production for bland tastes tarnished Science Fiction
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Novelist Mary Brunton (1778–1818) – an almost exact contemporary of Jane Austen – was born #OTD, 1 Nov, in Orkney. Prof HJ Jackson considers what factors might have contributed to Austen’s present fame, & Brunton’s neglect
#C18 #litcrit
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cover of 1993 paerback of Culture and Imperialsim with uncredited design -- fragments of torn texts photographed on pigmented paper
Edward Said was born 90 years ago in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine so there is a birthday to celebrate in all its contradictions, come on people who read, sometimes act, mourn, still look forwards. I just read Culture and Imperialism, 1993 - 'contrapuntal reading' has a future. #EdwardSaid #litcrit
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Ruth Richardson discusses how “The Body-Snatcher” shows Robert Louis Stevenson’s
“acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
#C19th #litcrit #Halloween
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Pls note, #litcrit Bsky, the bolded statement here from Frances Ferguson: "I have increasingly come to think that Clarissa is the single most important literary work in the history of British literature—& that it keeps holding its own". This is gospel truth, guys. Why aren't you already reading it?
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Soap operas shout. Nordic noir broods in silence.
But deep down, both reveal the same human longing.
A new essay—about drama, dread, and what makes us tick.
Now on Medium.
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#culturetalk #deepthoughts #litcrit #humancondition #smartcontent #mediumessay
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#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!
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It may be “syncretism”
But is it poetry?
It lacks, like, mysticism. . .
God lives at the Y on Coney!
—LF #litcrit #poetry
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BOOK NEWS
Examining domestic servants in contemporary South Asian fiction
Recent release from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
#BookSky #postcolonial #SouthAsia #litcrit
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Never took creative writing at uni—finance swallowed that dream. What I got instead: feminist critiques, penguins, and a final essay signed “My name is not David Grace.”
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#WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #LitCrit #Philosophy #AmWriting #English #Writing #nostalgia
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Beauty, as myth.
Not essence—structure.
#Barthes #GretaGarbo #ZooeyDeschanel #MediaTheory #Philosophy #Mythologies #BeautyAsSign #NowReading #LitCrit
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I deconstructed/annotated "Blood Will Tell" by BR Davenport, which is a shitty, white supremacist version of "Jekyll and Hyde" but speaks volumes about white fragility after the Civil War. #literature #history #booksky #civilwar #racism #litcrit #antiracist #americanhistory
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I deconstructed "Blood Will Tell" by B.R. Davenport (1902), which is basically a white supremacist version of "Jekyll and Hyde." White fragility in the wake of the Civil War. app.milanote.com/1TGNSF10T7zp... (link to my version) #booksky #history #blackhistory #whitesupremacy #litcrit
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Sometimes a title alone qualifies a book for my project. "White Queen of the Cannibals" is about missionary Mary Slessor's time in Nigeria, and it's a racist/colonialist jamboree. app.milanote.com/1TGNSF10T7zp... (link to my deconstructed version) #booksky #history #africanhistory #litcrit
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Just added "Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini (1922) to the Library. This book was SO much fun! PIRATES!!! Buckles are swashed left and right, and not too much problematic content to talk about. app.milanote.com/1TGNSF10T7zp... (link to my version) #booksky #litcrit #feminism #deconstructed #radfem
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I added "Pagan Passions" to the Library of Amazonia, which means that I deconstructed it and provided commentary about the embedded #sexism and #misogyny. Gotta love pulp sci fi, in which the authors could imagine anything except for not hating women! #booksky #litcrit #feminism #radfem #gender
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I deconstructed "Pagan Passions" by Garret & Harris (1959), in which a mortal man is temporarily made a Greek god in order to officiate at an orgy. Classic pulp sci fi - ridiculous and full of sexism! app.milanote.com/1TGNSA1iQTXc... (link to my version) #booksky #scifi #pulp #litcrit #feminism
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I deconstructed the 1962 pulp sci fi novel "Sex Life of the Gods" by Michael Knerr. I love how pulp sci fi authors could imagine anything and everything except a world without misogyny. app.milanote.com/1TGNSA1iQTXc... (link to my version) #booksky #litcrit #feminism #radfem #gender
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I added another book to the Library of Amazonia - "Herland," by Charlotte Gilman Perkins, an early speculative fiction novel in which 3 men discover a land entirely populated by women! Shenanigans ensue! #booksky #feminism #radfem #litcrit
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I annotated Charlotte Gilman Perkins's utopian novel "Herland," in which 3 men discover a land entirely populated by women. Fascinating book. It's good to remember that feminism veered into eugenics during the Progressive Era. #booksky #feminism #litcrit #radfem #annotated
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Lines, On Being Asked to Write in a Scrap-book. From the London penny weekly The Family Herald, 1846 What shall I write?/ Say something good, or something bad;/ Something funny, or something sad?/ etc. etc. . . . until the final couplet "For, as tho' my anxious wish to spite/ Echo repeats, "What shall I write?"
Poetics pals, #litcrit pals, is there a term for a poem whose topic is the near impossibility of its having been written at all? Like this 1846 "Lines, On Being Asked to Write in a Scrap-book," whose speaker devises 14 couplets about not having a topic? (See the opening of the Prelude, I guess?)
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