📸 Italian edition Background: exhibition catalogue Corpo, Automi, Robot (Body, Automata, Robots)

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"Computers love to read."

Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Want to understand Honoré de Balzac? Try Dungeons & Dragons instead of literary theory Most people think originality comes from endless freedom. Dungeons & Dragons suggests the opposite.

#DungeonsandDragons gives players a small number of races, classes and backgrounds and somehow produces characters that feel endlessly distinct.

#Honore #DeBalzac #LiteraryTheory #DnD #Creativity #TheHumanComedy

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Anniversary Issue »20 Years of JLT«: What Does ›Literary Theory‹ Mean Today?

What's the role of #literarytheory today? We welcome submissions that open up new perspectives on the scope and practices of literary theory in different academic cultures. Submit your papers to #JLT by March 25th. #CfP #Who'sAfraidOfLiteraryTheory #Literaturtheorie jltonline.de/cfp/2025/CfP...

Anniversary Issue »20 Years of JLT«: What Does ›Literary Theory‹ Mean Today?

Was bedeutet #Literaturtheorie heute? / What does #literarytheory mean today? How is it practiced in different academic traditions? Submit your papers (in English or German) to the Journal of Literary Theory by 25 March 2026. We look forward to your contributions! #JLT jltonline.de/cfp/2025/CfP...

An analysis of Matches in the Snow | Boys Love (BL) Stories. Unbound. A psychological and thematic analysis of "Matches in the Snow".

"The cold felt like a correction." 🔥🌨️ "Matches in the Snow" is more than a rescue—it's an ontological struggle. Our analysis ignites the meta-fictional anxieties and romantic desperation at its core. #LiteraryTheory #ProfoundRead

ROMANTIC IMMANENCE offers a bold, Spinozist framework for rethinking encounters with otherness in Romantic literature—not as the sublime or Gothic, but as embodied, immanent experiences of raw reality.

#MLA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/3mkeapkj

#Romanticism #LiteraryTheory #Spinoza

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Games don’t ask what the right choice is.
They ask who you become after choosing.
That self-reflection is something literature has always done: games just make it unavoidable.

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#identity #literarytheory

Analysis: Matches in the Snow | BL Stories. Unbound. Caught between a frozen lake and a destiny written by someone else, Andrew tries to burn the script of his own death. But when Stephen drags him out of the blizzard, the heat between them proves more dangerous than the cold.

"The cold felt like a correction." 🔥🌨️ "Matches in the Snow" is more than a rescue—it's an ontological struggle. Our analysis ignites the meta-fictional anxieties and romantic desperation at its core. #LiteraryTheory #ProfoundRead

German-language writing is not one culture but many—shaped by empires, fractures, anxieties, and distinct historical destinies.
By Dr Aftab Husain

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#LiteraryTheory #GermanStudies #CentralEurope #CulturalHistory #Literature #germanlanguage

How Much German Is German Literature? German-language literature is diverse, spanning German, Austrian, Swiss, Prague, and Bukovina traditions, each shaped by unique histories and cultures

A shared language does not mean a shared literature. German, Austrian, Swiss, Prague, and Bukovina traditions live in different worlds.
By Dr Aftab Husain

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Dec-2025/...

#LiteraryTheory #GermanStudies #CentralEurope #Literature #CulturalHistory #WorldLiterature

📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚

250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction

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Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

📢 Call for Submissions - Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page 📚

500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies

Robin Waldun: "Why Are People SO Close Minded? - Understanding Paranoid Reading" | #LiteraryTheory #AmyHungerford #ParanoidStyle #ParanoidThinking
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Promotional banner for 'Literature, Linguistics & AI from Cambridge' featuring a robotic head and an open book, set against a purple background with light rays.

Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Promotional banner for 'Literature, Linguistics & AI from Cambridge' featuring a robotic head and an open book, set against a purple background with light rays.

Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Promotional banner for 'Literature, Linguistics & AI from Cambridge' featuring a robotic head and an open book, set against a purple background with light rays.

Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

🤖📚 Explore how #literarytheory, #linguistics, and #AI meet!

🎓 Free to download (where not already #OpenAccess) until 30 November 2025
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"The ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling."

The #essay also examines the 'arty' and the 'farty.'

#booksky #philosophy #horror #literarytheory #criticism

@leverhulme.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-che.bsky.social

#rachelcusk #briandillon #vidyanravinthiran #memoir #lifewriting #essayism #personalwriting #literature #philosophy #autofiction #theory #literarytheory #form #self #selfhood #novel #outlinetrilogy

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📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚

350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
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Now in paperback! Madness and Literature edited by Lasse R. Gammelgaard 📚️

Learn more and order your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mr2w8pjd

#literarytheory #mentalillness #narrativetheory #transdiciplinarymethodology #clinicalpsychiatry #healthhumanities

What lies ahead for fiction? The Future of the Novel is a short, elegant book that is really three essays in one. It begins as a potted history of the form, organized chronologically, like the diary of an ageless Bridget Jones wh...

What lies ahead for #fiction? #AI, #literarytheory and traditional #storytelling

#Book #Review by Benjamin Markovits

THE FUTURE OF THE #NOVEL
144pp. Melville House. Paperback, £9.99.
#SimonOkotie

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"Write your villain first because your villain is going to define your hero." - Dan Brown

I think this is pretty true. #Writing #AmWriting #WritingHelp #WritingSky #AuthorSky #WriterSky #Literature #LiteraryTheory #Writers

Opportunity to join the editorial team of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Could you be the next editor of our journal, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory?
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I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical […]

1) I think outlining #trilogies, regardless of #genre, is similar to how an #author #novelist would #outline a #novel following pretty standard #literarytheory to the best of one's ability. But....

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Cover of As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference by Chase Gregory. The design mimics a yellow plaid spiral notebook against a bright red background. The title “As If!” appears in bold white letters on a black oval that resembles a sticker. A strip of green tape below reads “Queer Criticism Across Difference” in black capital letters. The author’s name is displayed on a piece of black tape.

"As If!" by Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Read the introduction for free on our website! #LiteraryTheory #LGBTQBooks
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