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Any #litcrit / #littheory people help me with some lingo? I'm vaguely aware of pretty deep critiques of "close reading" over the past 20 years or so, but not really up on all the ins and outs, since it's not really my thang. In this work I'm doing right now with Thoreau, one big part of what I'm doing a detailed and minute reading of a couple of texts, but I don't want to get sucked up unintentionally into something that is beside or orthogonal to what I'm doing and/or I want to avoid pitfalls in my own method. Thoughts appreciated.

You shouldn't try to read Thomas Wolfe while you're young and optimistic. You'll just set the books aside, calling them a vast emission of wordy, self-absorbed emotionalism. Instead, wait until you're in your fifties or later. Read his work then, and relish the satisfaction of having been right the first time.

#litcrit #heresy #tomWolfePhooey

The story about the villain is: A hurt person hurts people.

The story about the hero is: A hurt person helps people.

What do you call a story about people who never get hurt, then? Easy. That’s a fairytale.

#litcrit #literature

RT @PParkerWriting@twitter.com

“An accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a common-place face.”
Charlotte Brontë is unimpressed by 'Pride and Prejudice', 12 January 1848

#janeausten #charlottebronte #litcrit

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PParkerWriting/status/1613475525346877440

I finished the Debbie Harry Memoir audiobook. It was very good. #litCrit

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Work by @becimay

“But where Naturalism sets out to offer a complete picture of a way of life, Granular Modernism's eating and waiting fail to amount to anything more; to paraphrase Evelyn Waugh: 'The most they can hope for is a cumulative futility.' Frank Norris once described one of Stephen Crane's narrators as: 'a locust in a grain elevator attempting to empty the silo by carrying off one grain at a time.'”

Granular Modernism https://global.oup.com/academic/product/granular-modernism-9780198709923#.Y7BUj8iAJX0.mastodon

Definitively proving that using #AI or #ChatGPT will get you published at the #newyorktimes that #poetry #oped is hilariousssssssssssssss #literature #litcrit @litstudies #poets

#literature #poetry #Eliot #litcrit

Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published ‹ Literary Hub (@lithub@twitter.com) https://lithub.com/why-most-critics-hated-the-waste-land-when-it-was-published/

The cost of _Lyric Shame_, granted not a new #book, keeps going up for some probably bad reason, but Harvard U Press is having a 30% sale until the end of December if you plug in HOL22 at checkout. So - buy _Lyric Shame_, now only.... 40 bucks! :/. #poetry #lyric #theory #reading #shame #poetics #BernadetteMayer #AnneSexton #ElizabethBishop #Litcrit #historical #culturalanalysis
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395

My friend Claire Jarvis writing funny things about Lady Chatterley's Lover on @Netflix

#litcrit @litstudies #filmcriticism

https://slate.com/culture/2022/12/lady-chatterleys-lover-netflix-movie-sex-scenes.html

New publication - Uneven Futures: Strategies, Community Survival, Speculative Fiction - by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan - of possible interest - will provide some salient #hashtags #UnevenFutures #strategies #community #communitysurvival #speculativefiction #afrofuturism
#LatinX #LiteraryCriticism #LitCrit #criticism #politicalorganizing #culture @themitpress

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Description on a book I'm about to shelve:

"the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy"

🔥 #ShelvingThoughts #ouch #LitCrit #AmericanLit

Description on a book I'm about to shelve:

"the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy"

🔥 #ShelvingThoughts #ouch #LitCrit #AmericanLit

Since I'm new over here, I thought I'd post my newest #review #LitCrit on Wendell Berry's newest work of nonfiction, pubbed in Slate. On history, living in the country, race, resentment, and writing. https://slate.com/culture/2022/11/wendell-berry-need-to-be-whole-review.html

#introduction
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I no longer believe there is such thing as apolitical and I #StandWithUkraine

Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/precedents-and-citing-decisions

#AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

Reading R.F. Kuang's "Babel" with Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House and there's clearly a renaissance of the dark academia genre written by women right now. Last one was in the early Oughts. In between there's a bunch of books written by men, but there's such a stark difference between dark academia written by men and the same themes written by women that I'm stunned there isn't a big essay on this difference yet. #lit #litsci #litcrit

The first part of what looks to be an amazing and incisive series on the complicated history of what we call bodice rippers in the context of laws against marital rape in the late 20th/early 21st century. Not a light essay, but wide-ranging and compelling.

https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/ripper-restoration-part-1

#RomanceNovels #BodiceRippers #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #CloseReading