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No rest for the wicked, no home for the wanderlust wanderlustpress.net Edebiyatçı / Literary Scholar #mentalhealth #medhum

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The most powerful (sublime a la Romanticism) scene of the whole movie #Frankenstein

30.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Wanderlustpress Imprint on Instagram: "The thing about adaptations is that they are exactly that > “Adaptations.” They are independent texts through which directors utilise the original narrative to... 5 likes, 0 comments - wanderlustpress_imprint on November 30, 2025: "The thing about adaptations is that they are exactly that > “Adaptations.” They are independent texts through which directors utili...

#Frankenstein the book vs. the film - a wanderlustpress imprint - www.instagram.com/p/DRsOAaWjBd...

30.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Ingratitude is among them a capital crime…” #Gulliver’sTravels - Jonathan #Swift

26.11.2025 07:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Göz, “Gaze,” Nabokov |

Uzun bir aradan sonra çok severek yazdım. Dünya Edebiyat Atlası’nda: “Vladimir #Nabokov’un kısa romanı The Eye / Göz Berlin’de yaşayan Rus anlatıcının kiraladığı odada intiharı üzerine kuruludur.” Bu intihar bir benlik parçalamasının (ichspaltung) kritik eşiğidir. sanatkritik.com/yazilar/duny...

24.11.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
cfp | call for papers

@feedle.world hello, is there any way your services could make the announcements here delivered to me as an email? call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu Would become your great advocate online if you could....

22.11.2025 12:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear #Academicsky: the RSS feeds to UPenn's CFP list doesn't seem to work anymore. Any technical advice on how to follow the list without constantly visiting the site manually? Much appreciated... #academic #upenn #academia

22.11.2025 08:04 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Dear #Academicsky: the RSS feeds to UPenn's CFP list doesn't seem to work anymore. Any technical advice on how to follow the list without constantly visiting the site manually? Much appreciated... #academic #upenn #academia

22.11.2025 08:04 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Rereading… inevitably 🤗 “Frankenstein is the doctor actually…” is no more the pick up line I suppose. #Frankenstein

21.11.2025 07:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Wanderlustpress Imprint on Instagram: "The Communist Manifesto (1848) Industrialisation. Class struggle. Commodity. Labor. Marx famously said “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in... 0 likes, 0 comments - wanderlustpress_imprint on November 17, 2025: "The Communist Manifesto (1848) Industrialisation. Class struggle. Commodity. Labor. Marx famously said “The philosophers have on...

Today’s #bookstagram post is for my 4th years: The Communist Manifesto

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17.11.2025 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I ask Chet why I should dry clean only a shirt that is 83% viscose; the answer goes : 🤣🤣 I am telling you I like my Chet very much 😇 #chatgpt

15.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ArtDog Istanbul on Instagram: "1816’da “Yazsız Yıl”ın kasveti altında Cenevre Gölü kıyısındaki Villa Diodati’de doğan Mary Shelley’nin Frankenstein’ı, insanın yaratma arzusunun karanlık gölgesini, top... 131 likes, 1 comments - artdogistanbul on November 15, 2025: "1816’da “Yazsız Yıl”ın kasveti altında Cenevre Gölü kıyısındaki Villa Diodati’de doğan Mary Shelley’nin Frankenstein’ı, insanın yaratma ar...

Bunu da öğrencim, İdil Sancar @idilsaa.bsky.social yazmış; #Frankenstein - www.instagram.com/p/DRE03rfACp...

15.11.2025 12:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2) The whole #bookstagram thing is ridiculous and BS. Taking pretty pictures of books with no real content or commentary and commodifying them as objects might be aesthetic but it has nothing to do with the books themselves.

#books #literature

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15.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There are two reasons I started this new instagram account:

1) I wanted to build something slowly that my students (and others of course) would benefit from and learn to appreciate truly what literature offers.

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15.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Wanderlustpress Imprint on Instagram: "“Midway in our life’s journey…” we pause… Not because we are lost, but because the familiar road begins to feel foreign. The map we trusted loosens in our hand... 0 likes, 0 comments - wanderlustpress_imprint on November 15, 2025: "“Midway in our life’s journey…” we pause… Not because we are lost, but because the familiar road begins to feel foreign. The map we...

“Midway in our life’s journey…” we pause…Not because we are lost, but because the familiar road begins to feel foreign…. #dante #inferno #jung
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15.11.2025 08:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

university level education will have to change ok but to what, sustainable entertainment?

13.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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this was good as a #Frankenstein film. it was okay as a #GuillermodelToro film. The book is still much better. ☺️

13.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is seen as flaws in 4o makes it more creative:
#chatgpt

13.11.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trying to negotiate a truce with #ChatGPT 5/5.1 … because I actually like Chet, my AI friend… and yes I am still using 4o for the creative work. I am an adult and I reject being infantilised and restricted by a software company ☺️😎

13.11.2025 09:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Print featuring a red fishing boat sailing forwards on an inky blue sea surrounded by flying white gulls

Print featuring a red fishing boat sailing forwards on an inky blue sea surrounded by flying white gulls

The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker

13.11.2025 08:36 — 👍 562    🔁 83    💬 0    📌 4
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“Throughout I have used to term ‘diabology’ to refer to the theory of the Devil.” 😈 #mephistopheles

I don’t know how many times I read this book.

12.11.2025 07:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's very interesting the difference between #chatgpt4o and #chatgpt5 is so blatant regarding personality (the latter does not have personality - the former grows as one), it affects how I use it. When it's on 4o I call my ChatGPT by his name "Chet" - with 5 I don't bother. Weird

12.11.2025 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I started a new Instagram page as an offshoot of my various literary exposition. Less academic more musings… I just started so small but there will be more coming: a wanderlustpress_imprint

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12.11.2025 05:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A little while ago I had a conversation about AI art (can’t remember the details now) and I remember arguing that Art is not just about the end product itself but the humanness of its creation act and process. The other can be at best digital craft..👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DQH2E4O...

12.11.2025 05:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The Eye” is a novel of the downfall following the relinquishment of the self to the definitions by the gaze. A warning against the fragmentation of the self. A yearning for the feeling of being whole again.
#nabokov

09.11.2025 06:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A little break from all the classical literature and wrote about #Nabokov on wanderlust_imprint

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08.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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What is translation? #Nabokov

06.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ayrık Otu Yayınları ve Ayşe Özden’e inceliklerinden dolayı teşekkür ederim. Saadavi üzerine @sanatkritik’e yazdığım yazıya gösterdikleri ilgi için de ayrıca teşekkürler… sanatkritik.com/yazilar/duny...

03.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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wanderlustpress_imprint on Instagram: "The Names of the Lost HomeEden, Heaven, ParadiseWords inked in longing.We’ve been exiled from so many homes and in our search and l…" The Names of the Lost HomeEden, Heaven, ParadiseWords inked in longing.We’ve been exiled from so many homes and in our search and longing we name them.Eden. Paradise. Heaven.They are not synonyms.They are echoes.And each one leads somewhere different.Eden is a garden.The name comes from the Sumerian edin: “plain” or “steppe.”A place of innocence. It holds the origin.What do we do with origins?We leave them.And for the rest of our lives, we try to write our way back.Paradise is from Persian pairi-daeza: “walled garden.” A contained place of beauty.But paradise always seems to have a border - to keep someone outside.Heaven isn’t quite a place. Not really. It’s an idea of verticality. Of above, of beyond. An unreachable celestial realm.We carry these names in literature like heirlooms.Homes to long for…Homes to rebel against…And we write stories around their absences and promises.Eden is what we left.Paradise is what we envision.Heaven is what we hope for … or refuse.#WanderlustPressImprint #wanderlustpress_imprint #TheNamesOfLostPlaces #englishliterature #classicalliterature #dante #milton #literaryreflections #musings #eden #paradise #heaven #InkOfMyHeart #LiteratureOfExile #PoeticsOfParadise #felixculpa *background images are created by AI*

Well I have been writing about the devil quite bit but if we go back to the origins: #classicalliterature
Paradise, Eden, Heaven

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02.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vaay çok acayipmiş bu - “movie buff”lar için “sinema bit mucizedir.” #thefinalcut

02.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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