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For new followers, I'll mention my book again! It's a guided tour of the films, bands, TV shows, novels that define the metamodern landscape of the last few decades. These are artworks that engage the conflict between modernist and postmodern qualities by leaning on Felt Experience. amzn.to/4eeuHLN

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Double Nation? Stevenson & the Doppelganger in 19th-Century Scottish Gothic 7 Jan, free online Exploring Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic doppelganger in JEKYLL & HYDE within the evolution of 18th- & 19th-century Scottish & transatlantic Gothic traditions www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...

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“I am a chorus in search of a tragedy, a raker of middens in the industrial North. “I am a genius in an obscure line of business. Try me a little. “I may have something you can use.” The author & artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was born #OTD, 28 Dec 1/5 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

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La Revue Ecossaise will return in January as a brand new podcast - six episodes per year covering key aspects of Scottish culture, history and politics. And all in French of course 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

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Midday solstice sun.

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CFP: The Uncanny in Language, Literature & Culture 22–23 Aug 2025 – University of Malta & online This multidisciplinary conference invites scholars to engage with the uncanny in its myriad forms, exploring how it shapes & is shaped by language, literature, & culture. uncanny.lcir.co.uk

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Really pleased to be part of this superb collection of essays on the British novel of ideas, edited by Rachel Potter & @matthewtaunton.bsky.social, which is publishing today with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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My dog knows my fidgety ways and so likes to trap me at my desk by placing his legs here.

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It is time. Tomorrow we discuss the comma in ‘God rest you merry, gentlemen’. Sleep well ahead of this exciting annual event.

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CFP Alert! I'm very pleased to be co-organising the 24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) which will be held from 15th – 17th October 2025 at the University of La Rochelle on the theme of "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2020/

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@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)! Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit

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This looks like a significant update to Raoul Ehshelman's original Performatism book, which itself was an important neighbor to metamodernism! www.routledge.com/Transcending...

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The theory It’s destroyed it’s cage Yes YES The theory is out

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If you're bored this weekend, check out this article I wrote for Mid-Theory Collective about how the Real Housewives taught me close reading! :) mid-theory.com/2024/10/06/r...

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A journal for metamodern theory is great news!

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Giving this #scotlit starter pack another punt for all the new followers. Hello there :) go.bsky.app/SeyRqwU

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The first issue of our new journal "Metamodern Theory & Praxis" is now out! Completely free to read. Check it out! (We hope to interview the contributors to the journal so if you prefer your content in a different format stay tuned for that as well) sts.williams.edu/metamodern/v...

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As I haven't seen one yet, I've created a Starter Pack for #Metamodernism. If you're a metamodernist or your work is connected to metamodernism and you'd like to be included, please let me know. Equally, if you're on this list and would like to be removed, just let me know too! go.bsky.app/P7DJ2ww

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I really need to learn how to deal with distraction. My labradoodle has more focus than me at the moment. Maybe I should try training myself: sit at your desk … stay…. good girl!

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Submissions invited: Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson The University of Glasgow invites submissions for a new collection of poems that reflect on, resonate with, & respond to Robert Fergusson’s life, poetry, & legacies – deadline 31 Jan 2025 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...

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The @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project is holding a special event next week, on the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's death. Join us, Andrew O'Hagan, James Robertson, Billy Kay, Kirsteen McCue and David Hamilton to remember the phenomenon that is Robert Fergusson www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rememberin...

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We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a ‘Modernism and Data’ special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

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Ten collective noun ideas: 10. A rash of dermatologists 9. A great deal of car salesman 8. A lot of auctioneers 7. A (polyg)lot of translators 6. A tedium of golfers 5. A well actually of pedants 4. A fraid of clowns 3. A deliverance of postmen 2. A lack of principals 1. An enlargement of pianists

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Making reservations today for my trip home and using my maiden name, because it avoids me having to say “it’s like Budweiser but without the bud” on repeat.

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Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. —Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow” “A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs” www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-...

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Just a quick reminder that the Romancing the Gothic conference on 'Devils and Justified Sinners' is coming up at the end of August! An international online conference open to all! Find out more here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devils-and...

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“A poet of this parish who was universal in his outreach… A great humanist Scot who, despite all the pyrotechnics of his poetry, always wanted to explore existence & what it means to be alive.” —from George Reid’s eulogy for Edwin Morgan, who died #OTD, 19 August 2010 asls.org.uk/edwin-morgan...

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Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 43! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from #writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

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Please pass on to your doctoral students and early career socio-legal scholars #callforpapers #joinus

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New C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings book reviews > Claire Chambers reviews Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt's "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic." Oxford University Press, 2022: doi.org/10.16995/c21...

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Stair-rods rain in the Bregenzerwald this morning.

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