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Academia can often feel overwhelming, with multiple pressures competing for our time and headspace. This seminar is about remembering why we got into this business in the first place – namely, the ‘love’ (and we can discuss this term) we feel for the books, poems, and ideas that make up our discipline.
In a change from the usual format, this week our text is a novel: Milkman, by Anna Burns (2018).
This week we are thinking about poetics and environmentalism, reading John Shoptaw’s essay ‘Why Ecopoetry?’ (2016). Many thanks to Miranda Jones for suggesting our text this week.
This week we are reading Louise Erdrich’s essay on ‘A Writer’s Sense of Place’. Many thanks to Will Carroll for suggesting our reading this week.
This week’s text is Jennifer Hodgson and Patricia Waugh’s response to claims of a decline in British fiction. Many thanks to Liam Harrison for suggesting our reading this week
This week we will be reading Joseph Luzzi’s discussion of the Work of Genre, where he analyses representations of labour and community in Wordsworth’s poem ‘Michael’ (1800) and Verga’s novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree) (1881).
This session will share tips and advice on developing your research via archival visits, with reflections from Dr Emma West, Dr Rona Cran and Dr Fariha Shaikh on using archives for their own research. Time, Date and Location: 12:30-1:30pm, Wed 28 Nov, Alan Walters G11 We will be serving lunch before the start of the … Continue reading “Into the Archive: Skills for Research”
On Wednesday 28 November, we will read Angus Brown‘s essay “Cultural Studies and Close Reading”. This essay uses a discussion of Caroline Levine’s Forms to explore the relationship between literature and lived experience, meditating, as Levine does, on the question of the distinction ‘between the formal and the social’.
