#literature
@gutenberg_org This unexpected discovery has made me feel happy. It won't last, ofc, but i shall enjoy these next few minutes of joy, given the unambiguous unmitigated #PublicGood that #ProjectGutenberg is!
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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture by Abbie Hoffman #books #literature #dedication
Two more weeks and i'll finally have time to work through my to-be-read booklist. As a treat I'm buying one of these, but which one should it be?
Murder at a Scottish Wedding by Traci Hall #books #literature #dedication
It's alive! The 2023 conference “#Witchcraft and the #Supernatural in Belief, Practice, and Depiction”!
Online. 26th-27th August. All day to hit different time zones. Talks recorded so you don't miss anything. Get discounted tickets for the first month.
#OnlineEvent #Conference #Academics #AcademicMastodon #Gothic #Literature #History #Horror #PopularCulture #Victorian #EarlyModern #GhostStories #Film
“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own.”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME
#Scottish #literature #poetry
3/3
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
#Scottish #literature #poetry
2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcnGeFxOqM
Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyond
his understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May
Published in POETRY magazine, Dec 2008
#Scottish #literature #poetry
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
I didn't expect themes of #ClimateChange to emerge from ancient Roman #literature, but that's exactly what happened when I began #writing #poetry for @spearmintwarlock 's new #ambient #music album, "Over Mountains, Under Stars".
The short #blog post linked below reveals the creative process behind the words I contributed to the album's opener, "After The Noise". Don't forget to check out the other tracks and enjoy reflective beats to wind down your weekend. They're free to download on BandCamp!
https://wildtype.ink/2023/05/20/after-the-noise-a-music-poetry-collaboration/
„Zeitung machen statt Sonntagsausgabe“
Atelierhaus Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Fanzineist #Vienna #Art #Book & Zine Fair is an annual international #independent #publishing event that focuses on presenting self-published #publications and independent works in the fields of art, #design, #literature, #culture, and more.
QUEEN ELIZABETH: Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
For tender princes, use my babies well!
So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.
— Richard III, IV, i
Anyone at the #HayFestival of #Literature this year?
If so, how is it?
BRIEF EXCURSION INTO CLI-FI…
They sit and watch the sun do down. But, they know, time is running out.
Can we use fiction writing as a way of thinking about how we cope with a climate-changed future?
#literature #writing #sciencefiction #cli-fi #fictionwriting #fiction
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the best text about pranking an in-law
Aus der Serie "Abgeschrieben: Dantons Tod" 62 Seiten übereinander abgeschrieben in diversen Bleistiften gemäß dem Regelwerk (https://www.konzeptkunst-online.de/georg_buechner)
#kunst #konzeptkunst #münchen #münchenkunst #georgbüchner #dantonstod #literatur
From the series "Transcribed: Dantons Tod" 62 pages on top of each other, transcribed in various pencils according to the rulebook (https://www.konzeptkunst-online.de/georg_buechner_english)
#art #conceptualart #munich #munichart #georgbuechner #dantonstod #literature
SLENDER: But if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another.
— The Merry Wives of Windsor, I, i
Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals by Melissa Clark #books #literature #dedication
I was re-acquainted with my 2nd cousin Angeline Boulley (yes THAT Angeline) at a book signing here in town today. Happy her new book about an "indigenous lara croft" is doing well.
#AngelineBoulley #FirekeepersDaughter #WarriorGirlUnearthed #Books #Literature #Indigenous
I am sharing this one because POSSIBILITIES
It was invigorating to interview Louise Heal Kawai today.
I've always felt that Japanese literature in English translation is intentionally flattened out to cater to the widest possible audience, and subsequent involvement in the market has somewhat confirmed my suspicions.
Listening to someone who has been tenaciously trying out different prose styles and going against the grain was refreshing and encouraging.
#literature #translation #Japanese #Japan #book #reading #livestream
Terrific #review in #newyork times by Cynthia Ozick, for those interested in the exploration of #inspiration :
Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan #books #literature #dedication
“‘The Circle’ illustrates what can still be achieved in traditional forms at a time when many practising poets might consider adherence to such rigours beyond the pale, or perhaps simply beyond their scope.”
Ben Wilkinson unpacks Don Paterson’s “The Circle” for The Friday Poem
#Scottish #literature #poetry
https://thefridaypoem.com/ben-wilkinson-on-the-circle-by-don-paterson/
My boy is painting outer space,
and steadies his brush-tip to trace
the comets, planets, moon and sun
and all the circuitry they run…
—Don Paterson, “The Circle”
Published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)
#Scottish #literature #poetry
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-circle/
The Bodyguard by Katherine CenterMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI was looking for a quick, easy, purely entertaining read and that’s what I got with “The Bodyguard” by Katherine Center - mostly.Pretty much for the entire first quarter of the
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-bodyguard-by-katherine-center/
#BookReview #Book #Humour #Review #Romance #bücherliebe #booklove #buchblog #bookblog #lesen #reading #literatur #literature #BooksOfMastodon #Bookstadon @bookstodon #bookstodon #BookReview
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan #books #literature #dedication
It's a beautiful day outside which means it's a perfect day to sit indoors and find new books to add to my TBR list 😂📚
#books #bookstodon #reading #literature #nonfiction #lol #funny
'#Hate is so much easier than #work': #ChastenButtigieg speaks about #LGBTQ+ #advocacy
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
#Pose #Writer-#Director #JanetMock Is Going “#WooWoo” and #Writing Her First #Novel.
The #Pose #writer-#director opens up about her own #healing, the #WGAStrike, and her latest #creative #Calling
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #TV #Representation #Culture #RoleModels
https://www.them.us/story/janet-mock-going-woo-woo-writing-her-first-novel-interview
#ElliotPage on #writing #memoir: “I just sat down, and it came out and I just didn’t stop. I just kept writing”.
Page’s memoir, Pageboy, will be released on June 6.
#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
Much Ado About Baseball by Rajani LaRocca #books #literature #dedication
Thank you, for this fine #introduction, erudite friend.
For the love of #literature, perhaps, this new #book will interest you:
I have, in the past, described this book as the Whitechapel and Spiritbox of #literature. You'll find a have a very unconventional faith in #Jesus through this text, but most are going to assume I worship #Satan after reading it.
It's too in support of #LGBTQ rights, #antiracism, and #antifascism. It's also got some sexy bits about #ethics in the SW industry that will always seem demonic to them.
I confess the worst things I've ever done in this book.
https://jamilagebara.wixsite.com/jamgebaraisthedevil/about-5-1
KING: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
The endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.
— Love's Labor's Lost, I, i
Let me tell you about this interview tomorrow (which will be in #English and #Japanese).
Japanese #literature is sanitized and homogenized by most English translators. This is an uncontroversial assessment for anyone who has read the works in the original Japanese.
Heal Kawai resisted this homogenizing trend by employing the Manchester dialect to render Kawakami's Osaka dialect.
Do join the livestream tomorrow and ask us your question about all things bungaku-related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L29VR57eo2M
Me voy a hacer una cafetera y os dejo aquí la recomendación de hoy, que mola mucho, mucho 🖤
#literature #literatura #novel #spanish #editorialpezdeplata #vrësno #carolinasarmiento
Hear from UL's Donal Ryan on the Ryan Tubridy Show earlier this week
Donal discusses his journey into lecturing at UL and his career as an author
Listen here:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22254684/
#StudyatUL #Literature #CreativeWriting #Book #Books #Learning #Education #University #Ireland
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury #books #literature #dedication
Now reading:
星落ちて、なお
(ほしおちて、なお)
2021
by
澤田瞳子
(さわだ とうこ, Sawada Tōko)
CFP – Provocative & Provoking: Fifty Shades of Byron
26–27 April 2024, Newstead Abbey
2024 marks the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death. This Byron Society conference will explore Byron’s life, his poems, & his contemporary & current reception worldwide
Deadline: 2 January 2024
#Scottish #British #literature #romanticism #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #LordByron #Callforpapers
@litstudies
http://www.thebyronsociety.com/2024-newstead-abbey-byron-conference
All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey #books #literature #dedication
John Wagner on Judge Dredd, Bogie Man, & growing up in Greenock
“While Dredd may be his most famous character, Mr Wagner's favourite is Bogie Man, a mental patient escaped from a Greenock asylum who wanders the streets of Glasgow under the delusion he's Humphrey Bogart.“
Comics legend John Wagner on creating iconic characters with Carlos Ezquerra and Alan Grant.
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicbooks #JudgeDredd
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23542806.john-wagner-judge-dredd-bogie-man-growing-greenock/
MALCOLM: I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
— Macbeth, IV, iii
When it feels like there's so little you can do about, just, everything, remember that you can share and share and share the full text of "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman, which has recently been banned in a Florida school because of the complaint of one person.
Maybe if your instance has a longer word count limit, you could even type it out in a post.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
Kotaku: The Lord Of The Rings Game About Gollum Is Getting Absolutely Roasted https://kotaku.com/gollum-lord-of-the-rings-ps5-reviews-metacritic-bugs-1850474678 #gaming #tech #kotaku #stealthactionadventure #daedalicentertainment #englishlanguagefilms #thereturnoftheking #giovannicolantonio #thelordoftherings #newzealandfilms #lordoftherings #digitaltrends #creativeworks #britishfilms #andyserkis #squareenix #literature #tolkien #onering #gollum #films #nacon #orc #hp
@magdelenehall
Makes me think about the "Beauty and The beast "-theme :)
I remember reading about Syrian tablets having that theme written on them , dating back to 6000 BC.
Being the oldest written story in known human history.
That theme coming back in many poems and stories through history.
Like in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice as a famous example.
Nice to get deeper into understanding things with AI.
But I doubt AI will ever write a Pride & Prejudice .
Saying that Holden Caulfield is too whiny is like saying Hannibal Lecter is too cannibalistic.
The striking thing about Catcher in the Rye to me is how well that character is realized, starting right on the first page of the book. So stop bitching about Holden. It's annoying and you remind me of Ackley kid.
#books #literature #reading
Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
– Grace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022 – available on #OpenAccess via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #womenwriters
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
A Restless Intellect: Florence Dixie (1855–1905)
“Widely respected – and regularly attacked (once physically) – in her lifetime, she is now largely neglected; an intriguing aside to feminism or to agnosticism. Dixie deserves better.”
Florence Dixie – novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, campaigning journalist, suffragist, & more – was born #OTD, 25 May. Valentina Bold explores Dixie’s roving life
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #womenwriters
@litstudies
1/2
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-restless-intellect-florence-dixie-1855-1905/
⚡ Calling students & young academics with interest in #literature: Apply for a #CLSinfraTNAfellowship at @ACDHCH_OeAW to level up your research & visit beautiful Vienna/AT
➡️ Data Modelling & Curation
➡️ #SemWeb Technologies & LOD
➡️ #NLProc & #DigitalEditions 👉 https://clsinfratna.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/3
🚨 30 May Closing date!
HARUKI MURAKAMI
2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.
This is the most important award in Spain, besides the Cervantes, although the latter is only for authors who write in Spanish. And this is one of my favourite books, a collection of short stories: The Elephant Vanishes.
#AI #GenerativeAI #Fiction #Literature #StoryEngine: "For all its shortcomings, Story Engine is strangely satisfying. If early AI writing felt like guiding a very well-read toddler into telling stories, Story Engine feels sort of like building a video game prototype. You start with an idea and try to get a computer to execute it. The results probably aren’t quite what you expect, but through trial and error, you can lean into what the system does well and find the fun."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23732252/sudowrite-story-engine-ai-generated-cyberpunk-novella
In "#BrokenThings" #Author #ArinzeIfeakandu shines a light on #gay #Nigerian #lives
“The idea (at the time) was to sort of #cage us,” he said of the #Nigerian #antigay #law. “It had the opposite effect because there was a lot of #rage and #anger
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Nigeria #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Representation #Culture #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia
https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/author-arinze-ifeakandu-shines-a-light-on-gay-nigerian-lives/
Nice opening paragraph in a Gizmodo post about an app that spits out AI-generated novels:
https://gizmodo.com/sudowrite-launch-novel-writing-ai-software-story-engine-1850450016
Actually, GanonDORF is the Gerudo man. The giant pig-demon/force of malignant nature is Ganondorf's monster.
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #imperialism #19thcentury #20thcentury #revolution #emancipation #equality #liberty
17/18
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/
Normally I don't share from Insta or without ALTText, but this is too important. In Ron de Santis' Florida, more and more #books are banned. The selection mostly hits POC, LGBTQIA2S+. For Germans, it is fatally reminiscent of the preparations for the #book burning by the Nazis.
The latest victim is Amanda Gorman. Her answer: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsmfbFWypgC/?img_index=1 Don't fool yourselves into thinking it will not be that bad. That mistake has already been made with Trump. #bookstodon #literature #bookwyrm
What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?
A #Scottish #literature 🧵 …
At the most difficult point in his life Stefan Zweig came across a copy of Montaigne's ' Essays' and felt as if he had found an understanding friend. He sat down and wrote a brief biographical portrait of the French Renaissance philosopher and thinker and in the process tells much of himself and his own life.
#BookReview #reading #Montaigne #literature @bookstodon
https://gallimaufrybookstudio.com/montaigne-stefan-zweig-kindredsouls-pushkinpress/
I've seldom seen a point being missed as thoroughly as in this article. In "Dune" and "Dune Messiah", Paul's inability to control his own destiny and its horrible consequences is THE ENTIRE POINT OF HIS STORY. Like Jesus as portrayed in "Jesus Christ Superstar", he's a powerless Messiah, a pawn of forces beyond his control, despite his appearance of agency. It's a brilliant subversion of the "Hero's Journey"; in triumphing, he fails.
Sigh. 🙄
@bookstodon
Dinosaurs in the Amazon
Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer & dinosaur hunter Professor George Edward Challenger. Doyle himself preferred Challenger to the more famous (& successful) #SherlockHolmes …
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
4/4
https://www.tor.com/2018/03/15/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
@bookstodon
Sherlock Holmes, Hardboiled Detective
“[O]ne of the most striking features of Holmes’s stories is that they have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, and one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett and Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie.”
–Alexis Hall makes the case for #SherlockHolmes as a noir icon
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
@bookstodon
According to the Guinness Book of Records, #SherlockHolmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character – & in a recent UK poll, over 50% of teenagers thought that he was a real person…
2/4
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmesDay
Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂🧵
Bridget Kendall on BBC Sounds explores the life & work of the doctor & literary superstar who changed #CrimeFiction forever
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay
@bookstodon
1/4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
If you happen to think about Argentinean #literature (probably never, but let's assume, you did), there are a couple of names, you might think of:
Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Julio Cortázar and, just in case, you're a huge fan of #SF and #Westworld, Adolfo Bioy Casares (The Invention of Morel).
You would probably not think of Osvaldo Soriano, one of the country's most successful writers of the late XXth century, despite most of his works have been translated to English and German.
1/4
How Author Photos Change the Way We Read https://lithub.com/how-author-photos-change-the-way-we-read/ #literature #bookstodon #books
News for literature fans!
Erin McCarthy at @uniofgalway is mapping and modelling how early modern English poetry circulated within the social networks of the times - challenging traditional narratives.
Read more 👇
#EUfunded #networkanalysis #literature https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/early-modern-poetry-galway-erin-mccarthy-stemma-digital-humanities
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1660254121948250113
Aphorisms, from my forthcoming #book, appeared in Tiferet #Journal — at the nexus of #literature & #spirituality — alongside #poets that I admire, such as Paul Muldoon.
https://m.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
@bookstodon #books #poetry #wisdom #SilentSunday #publishing #WritingCommunity #reading #meditation #art #peace #reading
Glasgow Comic Con 2023
Sat 3 June – tickets £0–£27.80
Browse more than 130 exhibitors, meet comic creators, enjoy panels from your favourite artists & writers & marvel at some of the best cosplayers in the country. Children can also enjoy the return of the dedicated Kids’ Zone which hosts workshops & activities all day
Tickets are limited – book early!
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-comic-con-2023-tickets-600653469697
My current favorite works of extended prose.
1 Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
2 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
3 The Passenger/Stella Maris - Cormac Mccarthy
4 The Alice in Wonderland books - Lewis Carrol
5 Dune - Frank Herbert
6 The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
7 Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
8 Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabakov
9 The Trilogy - Samuel Becket
10 The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
what is your list?
My friend Maryanne Moll will be at the Philippine Book Festival to sign her book, The Maps of Camarines on June 2 and 3. If you're going, do drop by the Alkem/Penguin Random House SEA booth and get your copy! It's magical realism, about the rise and fall in the fortunes of 3 prominent families in a fictional Philippine province. #Philippines #Literature #TootSEA
Today, May 20th, in 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published.
154 sonnets were first published all together in a quarto on May 20, 1609
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-shakespeares-sonnets-1609
Reproduction :PDF: @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/shakespearessonn00shakrich
Here’s our article on Kingsolver and the #literature of the #opioid epidemic: https://theconversation.com/barbara-kingsolvers-demon-copperhead-and-the-enduring-devastation-of-the-opioid-crisis-205378
in terms of civil & human rights, lorraine said that everyone 'must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent...they must harass, debate, petition, give money to court struggles, sit-in, lie-down, strike, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps—and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.'
#theatre #literature #art #lorraineHansberry
when, at the age of 34, she died of pancreatic cancer, james baldwin said, 'it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man'.
although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir's 'the second sex' & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant.
#art #history #lorraineHansberry #author #literature
'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
it's another #art #history thread for you - whether you like it or not. this one celebrates lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930), so what's not to love?
i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand & have been intrigued ever since by its author. the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy.
#illustration #lorraineHansberry #literature #playwright #chicago
Six novels have been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Here's what
@TheConversationUS's team thought of them. The winner will be announced on May 23.
Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice
#PhD opportunity
This full-time funded project will see the creation of the Agnes Owens Archive.
Owens’ champions point to her class, gender, & age in explaining her neglect. This project will absorb & supersede these contexts in its collation & critical appraisal of Owens’ full literary output, leading to a variety of events marking her centenary in 2026.
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #archive
We are doing a conference! If you work with #cultural #text #linguistic #media #literature #film #art #audiovisual #DH etc data, take a look! Bonus: Tallinn Christmas market, northern lights (maybe) and 4 free practical skills workshops (yes incl R!) on the pre-conf day.
#CUDAN2023
The Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023
❄️December 13-16, 2023❄️
Tallinn, Estonia
Abstract submissions by July 24: cudan.tlu.ee/conference
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
@litstudies https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
Edwin Muir and a Story of Europe
“Muir’s contact with Europe is significant, however, not only in a personal and literary sense, but also in a wider political context which resonates with our own early twenty-first century times. His travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history.”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
6/6
https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/edwin-muir-story-europe/
One foot in Eden still, I stand
And look across the other land.
The world’s great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate…
—Edwin Muir, “One Foot in Eden”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
5/6
Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long
Through time and never found eternity,
Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,
You should have fled our ever-dying song…
—Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
4/6
“Edwin Muir (1887–1959) is a mysteriously neglected, gorgeous, and emotionally penetrating poet. Of all the many pieces of writing spurred by the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse, and of the other kinds of 20th century apocalyptic writing, his poem ‘The Horses’ may be the most effective, perhaps because it is the most calm and gentle.”
—Robert Pinsky
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
3/6
https://slate.com/culture/1999/01/the-horses.html
On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck…
—Edwin Muir, “The Horses”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
2/6
I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…
—“A Birthday”, by Edwin Muir (1887–1959)—born #OTD, 15 May 1887
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
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Fuck Amazon. It was so much easier to buy books from Book Depository.
Amazon to close Book Depository online shop https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop
#Amazon #BookDepository #Books #Literature #BookStore #Bookstodon
I (Editor) love quoting #GKChesterton. He was a great #journalist whose #essay(s) are still loved today. Advocated #Distributism #Economics. What he noticed about #Millionaires 100 years ago still apply to #Billionaires today.
#HistoryRepeats. #Chesterton was a huge influence on #Fantasy #Literature today, inspiring such #Authors as #Tolkien, #Pratchett, #CSLewis, and #Gaiman, with his thoughts on #Myth, #Story, #Art, and #Narrative.
My new weekly installment in Metapsychosis: #journal of #consciousness, #literature & #art:
Never mind #poetry or prose, good #literature is the art of friction.
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#Poems seem to grow with us. Often, it’s only we who are catching up with a #poem’s dimension.
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#Writing is a kind of echolocating—to discover our tribe.
https://www.metapsychosis.com/collections/quarantine-notes/
via @madrush
#WritingCommunity #ai #inspiration #motivation #wisdom #spirituality #meditation #poetrycommunity #quotes #words #books #life
The short stories of modern Iraqi writers Hassan Blasim and Diaa Jubaili show the heart of contemporary Iraqi literature -- and are a good entry point for the American interested in understanding the Iraqi viewpoint, 20 years after the US invasion.
Sad to hear that The Book Depository has closed down. I've used it for years. I can't bring myself to buy anything from Amazon for all kinds of reasons - most important, they are cleaning out the whole industry so they'll become a monopoly and I guess that's why Bookdepository gave up.
Anyone know another good online bookstore that ships to all Europe?
#Books #Literature #BookDepository #Amazon
I just migrated to a new server so here's my #introduction again:
🔹 I am Youssef from Morocco 🇲🇦 and I work in IT
🔹#cinephile : Italian neorealism, French New Wave, Silent film, noir
🔹 interested in #literature, #philosophy #poetry and #psychoanalysis
🔹 Specifically, I gravitate towards the intersection of #hegel and #lacan, and German Idealism more broadly. Also #marxism and #postmodernism
🔹 An advocate of #opensource interested in the intersection between #tech, #philosophy and #polítics
The Fawn is an early novel from the great Hungarian writer Magda Szabó; it's narrated by an acclaimed actress in her late twenties who is telling of her life to someone whose identity is only gradually revealed. Eszter Encsy is a complex person, mesmerizing, strong, and damaged and one of Szabó's most fascinating characters.
#bookReview #literature #reading #bookBlog @bookstodon
https://gallimaufrybookstudio.com/the-fawn-magda-szabo-nyrbclassics/
#Mastodon is a friendlier place to talk about and promote your #writing than the bird site was, so..
My #novel JIHADI: A LOVE STORY, about a US intelligence agent accused of terrorism and sucked into the secret prison system, is available for 99 cents this month (May) from Orenda Books.
3.7/5 on Amazon after 7 years, whatever that means. It confused some. It excited some. It made all of them think. Which is what I was going for.
Yesterday @novomancy and I argued at @markcmarino 's #FutureWriting conference that the future of grammar may be recomposable units of meaning rather than prose. Takeaways:
* GPT-4 writes better for discovery than persuasion, correlating across genres and formats.
* GPT-4 is good at diplomacy.
* GPT-4 is bad at empathy.
More at 🐦 https://twitter.com/jonippolito/status/1653421887425335297?s=20
#dataviz #literature #writing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #ChatGPT #StableDiffusion #GenerativeAI #AIimages #AIethics #llm
