Bloomsbury Literary Studies's Profile | Typepad

This is Bloomsbury Literary Studies's Typepad Profile.

Join Typepad and start following Bloomsbury Literary Studies's activity

Join Now!

Already a member? Sign In

Bloomsbury Literary Studies

New York/ London

Bringing you the latest book news and views from the Continuum Literary Studies team in London and New York

Interests: books, publishing, literary studies, literature, shakespeare, beckett, religion, comics, romanticism, theatre studies,

Recent Activity

Q&A with Janelle Adsit

Janelle Adsit answered a few questions about her new book, Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum. How would you describe your book in one sentence? Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing exposes hidden biases of the creative writing curriculum and suggests principles that can... Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Robert Harvey

Robert Harvey answered some questions about his new book, Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics. How would you describe your book in one sentence? The book demonstrates how thought fueled by imagining liminal life – life at its limit – in what Foucault termed heterotopias, or “spaces otherwise,” stimulates... Continue reading

Posted Nov 9, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics – Coming Soon!

We are delighted to announce that next year we will be launching a flagship new book series that aims to become the home for the best and most exciting scholarship in modern and contemporary poetry criticism. Edited by Daniel Katz, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of... Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel

Guest post by Astrid Bracke At some point early into my research on climate crisis, I began to get the feeling that climate crisis was everywhere. I saw it referenced in films, novels, in food advertising. This, of course, happens to anyone who immerses herself in a topic: suddenly, her... Continue reading

Posted Nov 2, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Five Lessons from Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom

Guest post by Claire Battershill and Shawna Ross When we began writing Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students, our hope for the book was that we could help instructors who were interested in the digital humanities (DH) but did not know where... Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Tumor: Why I Write

Guest post by Anna Leahy When my ARCs—advance review copies—of Tumor arrived in the mail, I posted on Facebook, “This was the easiest and most difficult book to write.” I’ve been thinking about what I meant by that statement and how writing can be both easy and difficult at once.... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Jane Hiddleston

Jane Hiddleston answered some questions about her new book, Writing After Postcolonialism: Francophone North African Literature in Transition. How would you describe your book in one sentence? It’s a study of the role and status of francophone literature in North Africa from the 1980s to the present. What drew to... Continue reading

Posted Oct 10, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Guest post by William Germano My latest book is Eye Chart, just out in the Object Lessons series. Eye Chart is about ways of thinking about vision – from the first primitive attempts to decide who in the group has the sharpest eyes to the development of lenses and eyeglasses,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 3, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

The Media Learns from Disasters, but We Do Not

Guest post by Robert Ficociello and Robert Bell Two recent news articles about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, one from the LA Times and another from Politico, offered us an opportunity to compare some of our conclusions in America’s Disaster Culture to the tragic unfolding aftermath of these two storms. One... Continue reading

Posted Sep 26, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Airport Studies

Guest post by Christopher Schaberg This month my third book about airports will be published. It’s called Airportness: The Nature of Flight. When I tell my friends and colleagues about this book, they often say something like, “Another book about airports?” A more generous way to look at it is... Continue reading

Posted Sep 21, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

The Writer's Task

The following is excerpted from “Questions, Not Answers,” originally published in The Dramatist. By John Biguenet Unlike a lecture hall, the theater is not a place to recite opinions: it is a forum in which a community phrases its most pressing questions. Whether we are considering Antigone or King Lear... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Find Object Lessons events near you!

Join our Object Lessons authors around the country to celebrate the release of eight new books in the series! Take a look at the events below to find one in a city near you. Chicago 57th Street Books: Hear Kim Adrian (Sock), Harry Brown (Golf Ball), and Anna Leahy (Tumor)... Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Hywel Dix

Hywel Dix answered some questions for us about his new book The Late-Career Novelist: Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction. How would you describe your book in one sentence? The Late-Career Novelist is the first major study of the often-neglected later works by major, established contemporary writers. What drew to... Continue reading

Posted Sep 6, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Matthew Griffiths

Matthew Griffiths answered some questions for us about The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World, now out in the Environmental Cultures series. How would you describe your book in one sentence? Poets need more sophisticated ways of writing to engage with climate change, and Modernism... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Meera Atkinson

Meera Atkinson answered some questions for us about her new book, The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma. How would you describe your book in one sentence? The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma explores how literature testifies to trauma transmissions and how certain kinds of writing reveal their social operations and political underpinnings.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 27, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Announcing Bloomsbury Comics Studies

In the week that thousands of people head off to San Diego Comic-Con for the world’s premier celebration of comic book culture in all its forms, we’re delighted to announce the launch of a new series of guides to the many worlds of comics and graphic novels. Later this year... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

1

Q&A with Jos Smith

Jos Smith answered some questions for us about The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place, the latest volume in the Environmental Cultures series. How would you describe your book in one sentence? An appraisal of shifting cultural attitudes to nature and place in the UK over the last... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

1

Object Lessons NEH Institute, 2017 & 2018

Now more than ever, we need smart writing for broad audiences. Since we launched Object Lessons in 2013, we’ve been delighted by the overwhelming interest in our books and essays. This “crossover” approach to smart writing for a general audience has proved to be an appealing alternative for a range... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

2

The following is adapted from Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton's Earth, now available from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Earth is a home, a limit, and a recurring challenge. Humans have long struggled with their desire to view the Earth from its outside — as if we could depart... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

1

Thinking Like a Species

Joshua Tree National Park I’ve situated myself atop a mid-size bolder where the Colorado Desert meets the Mojave, where formidable thickets of cholla cactus and the blossom-tufted whips of ocotillo give way to gardens of the tree that gives this national park its name. Not that it’s an “actual tree,”... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Expressway to your heart

Кто придумал, скажи, эти пробки? В переулках – зима затаилась И ждет: что же будет. Zemfira, "Traffic" (Who thought up, tell me, these traffic jams? In the alleyways winter awaits us. And we shall wait - what will happen.) Jammed streets. Smoking exhausts. Lost time. Road rage. A built environment... Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Squid Eggs and Global Warming

The following is adapted from Nicole Walker's Egg, now available from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. If you were just watching male squid in the ocean tentacling around the ocean floor, punching his fellow male squid in the face, seemingly randomly, you’d think squid were overreacting. But squid are not truculent... Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Willard Bohn

Willard Bohn answered some questions for us about editing the new anthology Surrealist Poetry. Tell us a bit about a significant piece in the collection and why you selected it. I selected “When I Sleep I See Clearly,” by J. V. Foix, for two reasons. Since Barcelona was, and continues... Continue reading

Posted Mar 29, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Object Lessons series editors receive National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

January 4, 2017 - Object Lessons series editors Ian Bogost (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Christopher Schaberg (Loyola University New Orleans) have been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a traveling seminar program for writers, arranged to coincide with major academic conferences across the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

0

Q&A with Rob Latham

Rob Latham answered a few questions for us about editing the new anthology Science Fiction Criticism. Tell us a bit about a significant piece in the collection and why you selected it. Well, the volume is packed with classic essays, so it’s hard to pick just one. That said, I... Continue reading

Posted Mar 22, 2017 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

1

More...

Subscribe to Bloomsbury Literary Studies’s Recent Activity