Ilaria Natali

Ox and Mandarin | millavanderhave Ox and Mandarin, poetic adventures into the surreal

I'm reading Ox and Mandarin: Wayfaring Strangers by Milla van der Have. A poetic, surreal journey that reads like a literary Rorschach. Ink-blots of words and worlds:

Jane Desmarais explores how Cyril Scott translated—and musically set—decadent poetry. It’s where sound meets aesthetic excess in a conversation of voices. oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

The other side of the sun : Madelein L'Engle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.

Today we remember Madeleine L’Engle (1918), whose Wrinkle in Time and other work blur genre boundaries. She asked big questions: what can today's fiction learn from her?

How can semiotic theory guide stylistic choices in translation? New 'Online First' article in LEA: “Isotopy and Literary Translation: Semiotic Tools for a Stylistic Target” by Andrea Binelli
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‘Black Feathers and Poison Wine’—an intoxicating formula that captures the mood in Stefánsson’s early Icelandic poems. Ólafsdóttir offers fresh English translations alongside her insights.

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Preparing my course on eighteenth-century women writers in English literature. Who would you NOT leave out?

Letizia Vezzosi asks: She, He—or It? Beyond gender binaries, how does literature for young readers construct identity? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

How can semiotic theory guide stylistic choices in translation? New 'Online First' article in LEA: “Isotopy and Literary Translation: Semiotic Tools for a Stylistic Target” by Andrea Binelli
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Elisa Bizzotto’s essay dissects how Widower’s Houses gets refashioned—Italian-style. What eccentric cultural ‘nuggets’ shift between English and Italian?

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An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Pure delight: teaching Modernism and the Media this semester - where literature meets cinema, photography, and radio.

19th-century gilt portrait of Lord Byron, looking birdlike, jowly and distinctively unattractive

Regency-era Lord Byron fangirls (& boys):

'That beautiful pale face is my fate'
'the sweetest countenance I ever beheld'
'Byron's countenance is a thing to dream of'
'Lord Byron's head is, without doubt, the finest in our time'

Victorian memorabilia:

View of Forbidden Words and Female Anatomy. Gender and Language Taboos in the Oxford English Dictionary | LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente

Martina Guzzetti uncovers how the Oxford English Dictionary encodes taboos around gender and female anatomy. What remains unsaid in the language of authority?

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I taught many things today — the structural roots of novel forms, the long history of didactic literature, how to read a D4 –– but probably my longest term impact is when I said to a love-lorn student, “the only thing I can tell you over four decades of life is that nothing is forever”

Ilze Kačāne takes us into the fascinating world of translating Oscar Wilde’s decadent flair into Latvian. How does language shape—or reshuffle—the lushness of Wilde’s voice? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory.

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Honestly thought I was just doing some due diligence at the American Antiquarian Society, but found truly amazing unique and under-cataloged Haiti items, plus some surprising interactions between print and manuscript

It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻

..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time.
~ #itswhatwedo

Imperial Intimacies ‘Where are you from?’ was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post–World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mot...

'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Academic authors: self-promote! 💫

This is not a particularly popular account but:

🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇

If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.

New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...

bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press

I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026

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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”

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