🎉 Milestone alert! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce our 50th article!
New in JCLS 4(1): @skorinkin & @nevmenandr “The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature”🔗 https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4228
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies
If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations
#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
The edited volume "Care and Disability", edited by D. Christopher Gabbard & @taliaschaffer1 offers new perspectives on the representations on the relation between the carer & the cared-for, and #CareEthics in a variety of #Literature s & contexts
Today: examination of Wilma Andersson’s doctoral dissertation in English literature: Negotiating Independence and Interdependence in the Debut Works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Gish Jen. Live stream available!
#UniversityOfHelsinki
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https://tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/68f02b1bfafad1b3a662b1fb
Contrasting work & play, "Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" by Matthew Leggatt looks at playfulness and labour, boredom & the future of play in literature, films & TV series, from #ThomasMore to #SquidGame
#Utopia #Dystopia #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #TVStudies #FilmStudies
All work and no play ... not with us! Find 4 new books on play & work in #culture & #literature in our collection!
Liam Connell's study "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" examines work depictions in novels from India, USA & the UK, incl 2025 Booker winner #DavidSzalay
This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other
#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
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