This piece gets past the polished surface and into the uncertainty that runs through Heaney’s work, where the tension between private voice and public role is never resolved (and the poetry is stronger for that). #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #IrishPoetry #LiteraryCriticism

First edition cover of A Room of One's Own by Vanessa Bell.. The central image shows a clock on a stepped mantelpiece or plinth, framed within a dark arched alcove, bordered by a dotted semicircle and a decorative repeating pattern of small arches along the base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ARoomOfOnesOwn.jpg

The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write.
by Joanna Scutts

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Louise Erdich, Han Kang, David Streitfeld, and more: 20 new books out today! Officially: it is spring. Does that mean we can finally put our winter coats and scarves away? Time will tell. Until then, until we know for sure the snow has gone for good, let’s just count our blessings and look

Louise Erdich, Han Kang, David Streitfeld, and more: 20 new books out today!: Officially: it is spring. Does that mean we can finally put our winter coats and scarves away? Time will tell. Until then, until we know for sure the snow has gone for good, let’s… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism

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PTS 14/085: Ye Olde Three-Card Monte PTS read-through:  The Merchant of Venice, Act II ‘Watch the plays, don’t read them!’ Advice given so often to people who say they ‘don’t get’ Shakespeare –…

Shakespeare’s outsiders are arrogant - or simply meeting the world on its own terms.

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Old posts. Still thinking them through.

#BookReview: Trace Elements by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer My Review: I picked this up because I loved two of Jo Walton’s previous books that looked into both the business of and the writing of science fiction and fantasy, What Makes This Book So Great and An Informal History of the Hugos, and was hoping for more of the same - except with different books. What I got wasn’t like either of those first two, but it IS in dialogue with both of them, as well as the business of writing genre fiction in general AND an actual dialog between Walton and her co-author Ada Palmer.

#BookReview: Trace Elements by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer #booksky @bluejo.bsky.social #torbooks @adapalmer.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social #booksaboutbooks #sciencefiction #fantasy #literarycriticism

Quote of the Week: 26 March 2018 (#34) The long road to the civil war begins here …

Shakespeare might have viewed James I with a degree of suspicion:

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Paulina’s Mythic Vision Paxtle. A river in central Mexico. An ecosystem. Or in Paulina Mendoza’s small book of that title, an extended, semi-narrative prose poem with a sonnet-sized paragraph per page for effortless flow.…

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Ibram X. Kendi, Asako Yuzuki, Anne Lamott, and more: 20 new books out today! It’s the last week of a relentless winter, God willing. One more 30-degree day on the horizon, but who’s counting? Let’s count the books instead: there’s a great new cascade of literature today, a healthy selection of both nonfiction and

Ibram X. Kendi, Asako Yuzuki, Anne Lamott, and more: 20 new books out today!: It’s the last week of a relentless winter, God willing. One more 30-degree day on the horizon, but who’s counting? Let’s count the books instead: there’s a great new cascade of… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism

“In Borges’s literary guise, Vico appears anew. We find Vico, to use his own terms, as a ‘poetic character’ or ‘imaginative universal.’”

Buy Vico and Literature by Dustin Peone here: felicemosca.com/works/vico-a...

#GBVico #Borges #LiteraryCriticism #NewBook #Philosophy

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Portrait of the future wife of General Alexandre d'Arblay (she did not marry this French émigré until 1793), Frances, also known as “Fanny” Burney (1752–1840), a British writer, painted by her brother. A half-length portrait, with Frances turned slightly to the left, her gaze directed off-frame. She wears a llarge, elaborate straw hat decorated with ribbons and gauze, a light flowing white dress with a fichu (neck covering) and a pink bow at the chest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney#/media/File:Frances_d'Arblay_('Fanny_Burney')_by_Edward_Francisco_Burney.jpg

On the Genius of Frances Burney, Jane Austen’s Most Important Literary Predecessor

Natasha Joukovsky Considers Ahead-of-Their-Time Novels Cecilia and Evelina

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📢📢Don't miss the next session of the #LiteraryCriticism Workshop, where we will discuss Autotheory with Dr.
Rubén Peinado Abarrio (@posthumanuz.bsky.social)

⏰ FRIDAY 20th MARCH 12H
📍 Aula B3.2 (Filosofía y Letras)
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Dylan and Caitlin at Brown’s Hotel, Laugharne in 1938. Taken by their Blashford family friend, the photographer and artist Nora Summers. Dylan and Caitlin are seated at a small, ornate cast-iron pub table. On the table are visible a pint of dark beer, glasses, an ashtray, and what appears to be cigarettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas#/media/File:Dylan_Thomas_and_Caitlin_Macnamara_at_Brown%E2%80%99s_Hotel,_Laugharne,_South_Wales_in_1938.png

"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.

by Jayme Stayer

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Flowers or Nothing At a small bookstore in Mexico City, I found a little poetry book, Flores o Nada (Flowers or Nothing), by Laura Cecilia Cárdenas. Nice, and just at my Spanish level. What I noticed most was the ebb…

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Andrew Martin, T Kira Madden, Karan Mahajan, and more: 21 new books out today! An astounding week of literary fiction awaits: Andrew Martin’s much anticipated second novel, Down Time is out this week, along with T Kira Madden’s debut novel, and Karan Mahajan’s long-in-the-works The Complex. Ani Katz’s chilling Haven will also hit the

Andrew Martin, T Kira Madden, Karan Mahajan, and more: 21 new books out today!: An astounding week of literary fiction awaits: Andrew Martin’s much anticipated second novel, Down Time is out this week, along with T Kira Madden’s debut novel, and Karan… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism

This image reads: "In this limited series blog-style investigation, I will write about training an open source small language models ("SLMs") on my own creative writing—and my mother’s. Both the training and the prompting of my JenAI model will be run locally on my hard drive to protect the integrity of my unpublished and copyrighted works. My aims are to assess the feasibility of authors training their own proprietary SLMs (in a move which is replicable, and very David versus Goliath), and to learn through experimentation what benefits there are in replicating one’s authorial style and voice for personal use. JENNY HEDLEY." In the background is an image the author generated with student access to Adobe Firefly, which is trained on licensed images and is a more ethical option for image generation than the unethically trained models. The prompt used was "genAI gobbling copyrighted works during model training". It shows a robot surrounded by books. The robot stirs a large bowl, and is pouring manuscript pages, records, and code out of it. Two business people watch the robot. An artist, marked by their paint-splattered jacket, is facing away towards the shelves of books.

This week on the Southerly blog, Jenny Hedley shares the first of four posts exploring the creation of her very own "JenAI". Read it now on the Southerly website:

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Minority rule (noun): an irrational fear fuelled by right-wing pundits, lobby journalists and billionaires, that minority groups are displacing majority populations. We all know that the modern world is in crisis. But it's not just a crisis for the climate, or of living standards - it's a 'blame crisis'. Whether it's infighting on the left or the demonisation of immigrants on the right, there's always a new talking point to distract us from real, systemic change. Now is the time to realise that we have been duped into fighting with each other; now is the time to redirect our outrage towards those who deserve it. In Minority Rule, political commentator Ash Sarkar offers a sharp and lively reality check. Whether it's exposing the origins of the 'white working class', or examining how 'non-events' have taken over journalism, this book - now with a brand new afterword - will help you break the blame cycle for good. The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar, now available in paperback with a brand new afterword 'One of the boldest and most exciting thinkers of her generation' NAOMI KLEIN 'Delivers its message with punch and panache ... A joy to read' GUARDIAN 'If leftists feel they have been stumbling around in the darkness, Minority Rule flicks on the light' STANDARD

📚 Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War by: Ash Sarkar

Minority rule (noun): an irrational fear fuelled by right-wing pundits, lobby journalists and billionaires, that minority groups are displacing majority populations.

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Gisèle Pelicot, Namwali Serpell, Jon Meacham, and more: 21 new books out today! I hope everyone enjoyed a hard-earned three day weekend amidst the relentless winter. At the very least temperatures were not dancing around the -15 range, and for this we must celebrate. This Tuesday we welcome a long-awaited biography of Toni

Gisèle Pelicot, Namwali Serpell, Jon Meacham, and more: 21 new books out today!: I hope everyone enjoyed a hard-earned three day weekend amidst the relentless winter. At the very least temperatures were not dancing around the -15 range, and for this we must… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism