Joseph Conrad’s Travel Stories Weren’t Black and White
Conrad’s celebration of imperial exploration is accompanied by an acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with oppression and exploitation.
By: H.M.A. Leow
https://daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/
Hello and happy birthday to Flan O'Brien.
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 -
Lispector' s posthumous work explores religion, creation, imagination, humility, and so much more as an author explores his relationship with a character he creates.
ANGLING FOR FARTHINGS. Begging out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Names of Craters on Phobos, discovered in 1877. You may recognize some of them? #Swift #TeamEnglish #literature #satire #astronomy #science #telescope #scifi #moon #JonathanSwift #18thcentury #19thcentury #cartography #lunar
Transatlantic Poetry Series - Niall Campbell
6 May, free online
Niall Campbell’s first collection, Moontide, appeared in 2014 & won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. His second collection, Noctuary, appeared in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His third collection, The Island in the Sound, was published in September 2024
Scottish and Irish Gothic
11 April, University of Edinburgh – free
Christina Morin: ‘“This execrable place”: Irish Gothic and the American Republic’
Dale Townshend: ‘Matthew Gregory Lewis in Scotland'
Matthew Sangster: ‘The Scottish Roots of Theorising the Fantastic’
Maddy Potter: ‘“'I shuddered at my own image”: Doubles, Doppelgängers, and the Demonic in Scottish Gothic
Claire Connolly: ‘Wet Gothic in Melmoth the Wanderer’
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scottish-and-irish-gothic-tickets-1216652042009
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"Humor in der arabischen Kultur" von Georges Tamer (Ed.)
[Berlin [u.a.], 2009]
Ayont the linn; ayont the linn,
Whaur gowdan wags the gorse,
A gowk gaed cryin’: “Come ye in:
I’ve fairins in my purse…”
—William Soutar, “The Gowk”
in Collected Published Poetry, @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social 2024
April Fool’s Day is Huntigowk Day in Scotland (“gowk” is a cuckoo &, by extension, a foolish person)
https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/
“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: *Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly, cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.*“ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad #books #literature #gaza #genocide #occupation #palestine
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov #books #literature #dedication
Natachee Momaday Gray Coming to Otero Art Space, N. Scott Momaday is Remembered in Santa Fe in May https://share.newsbreak.com/cdtm6sbj?s=i0 #culture #literature #arts #oteroarts #Alamogordo #AlamogordoTownNews #2ndlifemedia #oteroartspace #NatacheMomadayGray #NScottMomday #SantaFeArts
TABBY. An old maid; either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Even more, the use of four words, each representing something in nature is a literary construction found in at least several places.
Here "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme".
In EE Cummings "Anyhow Town" the four are "sun, moon, stars, rain".
Japanese yojijukugo, lexeme consists of four kanji in idiomatic phrases such as
"Joy, anger, grief, pleasure", the range of emotions, and "Flowers, birds, wind, moon", the beauties of nature.
The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era by Claude Johnson #books #literature #dedication
Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #gogol #russia #ukraine #fiction #satire #surrealism #kafka #dostoevsky #literature #books #writer #author #courruptiohn #punk @bookstadon
After last week’s bout of futility over the value of narrative amid so much global horror - especially when visited upon fellow writers - I sit today with a story by Gabriel García Márquez about living with death, and how strange it can feel to have any signs of life amid so much worldly disaster.
#Literature #Politics #WorldGrief #Humanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/between-death-and-living-death-with?r=1ii76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
ADDLE PLOT. A spoil-sport, a mar-all.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Before the Nobel Prize, there was a young Grazia Deledda, a woman with a fire in her soul and a pen in her hand. A new film directed by Maria Grazia Perria now brings her early years to life, revealing the roots of her groundbreaking work.
#graziadeledda #cinema #movies #loveandglory #mustwatch #sardinia #italy #literature #womensrights #womenshistory #womenpower #womeninfilm
