A smiling middle aged white woman with wavy brown hair and glasses holding up a plate with a sandwich on it. Her t-shirt says Happy Bloomsday!
I’m rarely on here, these days, but I just wanted to say…
Happy Bloomsday from me and my Gorgonzola sandwich! 🥪 📖
#Bloomsday #JamesJoyce #Ulysses
Always use protection or have a partner when reading Ulysses.
“Rawdogging Ulysses” by @slate.bsky.social
For all those asking for more books for 12-14s, with 12-14 MCs, and for boys, I wrote this a while ago. It was Carnegie nominated and made into a TV series that won a BAFTA. Please buy it so it can finally earn out its minuscule advance. www.amazon.co.uk/Joe-All-Alon...
Very good new article in James Joyce Online Notes by @flavieepie.bsky.social and Eamonn Finn that uses multiple paths to elucidate a forgotten piece of Dublin slang used in Ulysses, 'Going the two days' (U 8.318): www.jjon.org/joyce-s-envi...
Well, this looks fab! Looking forward to reading it once it’s out.
I stumbled across a mention this anthology recently and quickly ordered a copy. From 1943: The Heart of Europe, a collection of prose and poetry from 21 European countries, edited by Thomas Mann's son Klaus and novelist Hermann Kesten. Just look at the riches in this collection. 🧵
Modernist and Avant-Garde Women starter pack
I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added!
go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR
A view of the Library grounds. They are coated in snow. A snow-strewn willow tree takes up much of the image
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
90s children’s TV presenter is definitely a good look. Rainbows all round.
Disability Historians starter pack. The more the merrier: go.bsky.app/4MB7iob
Thank you! I realised, a few years ago, that bright pink makes me happy, so I now have a few wonderfully garish items.
(P.s. I’ve just quoted your work on disability and affect in a forthcoming article. Thanks!)
OK. I'm trying to write more, so have (decades behind) set up a website for blog posts. Entries will be a mix of reviews & commentaries on all things cultural & my random musings - literary & historical
Have a read here: howtosolveaproblemlikemarie.wordpress.com
Hannah Corcoran, a 1st-year English student at Bristol University, has written an article about our reading week tour of medieval Bristol, led this year by the wonderful @hattiesoper.bsky.social : epigram.org.uk/a-medieval-h...
21. Bergson was at one point so famous that there were reports of people trying to steal locks of his (admittedly thinning) hair from his barber's, of people fighting in the corridors to try to get in and of people fainting because of the heat in the overcrowded lecture theatre
This is fab!
Fab list! Thanks for doing this.
Cleo dressed in a shocking pink puffer coat, hood pulled up over a matching pick fleecy hat. She’s smiling and standing in front of some snow covered tree branches.
It had begun to snow again.
I’m finally writing this up into a chapter, today!
I’d love to be added, thanks!
I love research!
An intriguing footnote in Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes’s Joyce in Art (2004) led me to an artist called John Hart (1921-1996). The fab people at @CamdenArtCentre scanned me the catalogue for Hart’s 1975 exhibition, which begins: ‘I use Joyce as Joyce used Homer’ 😮
Today, I saw a cat amongst the pigeons.
And…
They were all just ignoring each other. No drama. All pretty chilled. The cat was sunbathing and the pigeons were just wandering about.
To others finding the current discussion of baby loss certificates triggering, I feel you.
I have *thoughts*. For now, please remember that a person’s choice to apply (or not) for a certificate is complex & personal; it’s not an indicator of how strongly they feel their loss.
A section from my publishing contract from EUP, for my new monograph entitled James Joyce and Non-normative Vision. I have added emoji love hearts in the margins!
Today, I received the best Valentine’s message 💌
It turns out that Edinburgh University Press really fancy my book. They love it so much they want to publish it!
(Now I just need to write the bloody thing. I am very much open to offers of research leave funding!)
Photo of Cleo - a 40 year old woman with curly light brown hair wearing funky black and pink glasses and a black t-shirt with ‘1984’ written on it in gold. She is holding up a birthday card with a picture of James Joyce on it.
Happy 142nd birthday to James Joyce and happy 40th birthday to me! 🎈
A friend asks: ‘What are you reading at the moment?’
Me: ‘Oh, nothing. I’m just really busy with work at the moment. I’m too exhausted to read.’
Me: ‘Anyway, I must get back to reading all these essays about reading’
[I calculated that I’ve read 120k + words in the last 2 weeks]
A glass door covered in an icy geometric, accidentally very beautiful, design. In the background you can just about make out the shape of an office chair and a pile of books.
It is somewhat chilly.
#WritingShed life.
(Or, more accurately for today, #MarkingShed life)
In the forthcoming BAMS Committee Elections we are looking for 3 new Postgraduate Reps to work alongside @jenniferashby.bsky.social and Serena Wong!
Details here, please circulate: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/b...
#Modernism
Now… I must get back to my mountain of marking (which is, of course, totally unrelated to this anxiety dream 😳).
Had the mother of all anxiety dreams. Found a house full of babies. Someone said: ‘Cleo, you’re going to have to breastfeed them’. I said: ‘I can’t. I’m pretty sure I’m not producing milk anymore. I don’t have the physical & mental capacity to feed them all’. They said: ‘You have to, or they’ll die’
Thank you for this! I loved the book when I read it as a teenager but haven’t read it in years. And I’ve been weighing up whether to go see the film for my birthday.