"Everything must leave some kind of mark." Read this book again (and again and again). If you read it, and you should (it's amazing), you'll understand!
On #academic#twitter as practiced by #DiabeticOfEnlightenment: "The truth is I love literary criticism. I never want to be confused with some type of guy that’s all anti-theory, “humanities jargon is meaningless,” “let’s get back to philology.” I love academic arguments. And if I make fun of something scholarly online, I’ve almost certainly spent hours and hours reading and thinking about it, so the joke’s ultimately on me."
📖 What can the correspondence between the Marquise of Nisa and the Countess of Palmela, mother and daughter, tell us about the transmission of behavioural models?
#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
In #100YearsOfSolitude, #GabrielGarciaMarquez wrote about "the quicksand of forgetfulness." I am grateful to his sons for making the hard to decision -- an "act of betrayal," as they put -- to publish his last work while he, too, had fallen into that quicksand. It is a gift to the world of readers, to #literary critics, and to #neurologists.
Finally read #TejuCole's Open City (2011) & this passage, along with others referencing #Said, #Benjamin, #Didion, #Melville, #Coetzee, about plagues really stood out : "I read somewhere recently that the city of Leiden lost thirty-five percent of its population in a five-year period in the 1630s. What could it mean to live with such a possibility, with people of all ages dropping dead around you all the time? The thing is we have no idea" (200-201).
On 18 March, we will welcome researcher Patricia López-Gay (Bard College) for a lecture dedicated to the life and work of #JorgeSemprún, a Spanish political activist, public intellectual and writer.
🧐 How can computing help us, for example, to study people's opinions on controversial heritage?
In the next workshop of the #REWIND project you will learn about the IAT /ML methodology, which allows discourses to be analysed by combining ontological, argumentative and agency analysis.
Die #Tagung "#Germanistik und #geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung(en) – aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen zum 50. Jubiläum der Germanischen #Philologie an der Schlesischen Universität Katowice, Sosnowiec" wird am 17. und 18. Mai 2024 stattfinden.