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Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2
Propaganda under the cut!
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Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2
Propaganda under the cut!
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Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2
Propaganda under the cut!
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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access
Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit
- Monster Theory - Really great anthology to start with, especially the first reading, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's famous "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" which is a personal favorite
- The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - A general SF/F journal, but there are definitely a lot of great monster theory and gothic horror readings sprinkled throughout. Consider taking a look at Veronica Hollinger's "The Vampire and/as Alien," the special issue on Dracula, and Faye J. Ringel's "Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast," among others
- Werewolf Histories edited by Willem Blécourt - Phenomenal anthology on werewolf scholarship, especially if you're interested in the connections between werewolves and witchcraft and/or witch trials in Early Modern Europe
- Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam - Of interest to those who are interested in the connection between the gothic and gender (among other topics). Halberstam has written extensively on both
- The Journal of Dracula Studies - Exactly what it sounds like.
- Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural - Another journal, which focuses on the connections between witchcraft and occultism, monsters, demonology, and the like.
- Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" - An absolutely landmark piece of writing on Frankenstein and the transgender (and in particular the transfeminine) experience; one of my favorite pieces of academic writing of all time.
- Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology - Another solid monster theory anthology
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene - A really, really good anthology about the ecological gothic that I cannot recommend enough. As a known werewolf guy I especially like the piece "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus" by Carla Freccero
- The Vampire Lectures by Lawrence Rickels - So many vampires
- Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader - Another anthology, I in particular recommend Rosalind Sibielski's "Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts" in this one.
- "The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein" by Jolene Zigarovich - Definitely a good read if you enjoyed the Stryker piece earlier; it's a more general survey of the idea but might give you some ideas for further reading
- TransGothic in Literature and Culture - A whole anthology of works on transgender identity and the gothic!
- Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion - Not to be confused with the other similarly named anthology earlier, this one is on various modern perspectives on the gothic.
- "Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Werewolf Renaissance" by David A. Shyovitz - Stand-alone article but really really interesting
- Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston & Katherine Park - Incredible volume that gets into several different subjects surrounding the fantastical in the medieval and early modern eras, monsters among them. The same authors have written some other fantastic work, such as "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and England" and I honestly would recommend any of their work.
- Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters - A more anthropology focused volume, I particularly like Rozanna Lilley's "Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters—(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood"
- Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations - Another anthology, this time with a historical perspective
This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!
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Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1
Propaganda under the cut!
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Welcome to the Latin Literature Tournament!
Selections are based on my university's Latin reading list, with a couple names added to round it out to 32 contestants. So unfortunately, not every author managed to make the cut--I'm sorry to all three of my fellow Silius Italicus fans :(
I'm accepting propaganda for any of the competitors! Drop your arguments, panegyrics, hot takes, and trash talk in an ask!
Polls open up on Monday, 4/22, and will be open for a week! All reblogs are greatly appreciated!
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queer classics: a speculative reading list
well i said i would so: my rec list for queer classics scholarship! this comes from my own experience with the subfield of queer classics during my time as a graduate student and my current life as an independent researcher.
i'll put it under a cut because it's long and because (gasp!) i capitalized more formally while i was writing it. if you find this resource useful and want to support an underemployed colleague, my ko-fi is here.
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actually if tumblr ever dies we should all occupy the liverpool classics listserv
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im curious about how many people consider themselves part of classics tumblr and what those people's relationship to classics is IRL, so...
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I trick you into thinking we’re doing a cool pub crawl in Scotland but instead I take you on a cairn crawl and you’re stone cold sober as I force you to traipse across farmland with me and then infodump about the chambered tombs within.
I start explaining what we know about the process of excarnation during that era and then when we finally get to the cairn I get overwhelmed and start crying and it’s the worst vacation you’ve ever been on.
If you still like me after that then we can go to Orkney and see the Knap of Howar, Tomb of the Eagles, Skara Brae and my favorite, Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn. I will end up crying at all of these sites as well.
don't threaten me with a good time
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guys I finally did it. I procrastinated something so hard I actually made a uquiz.
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Rosaria Champagne, “Law of the (Nameless) Father: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and the Incest Taboo”
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Comic for “The Ruin” a poem written by an unknown author in the 8th or 9th century
How wondrous, this wall stone,
Shattered by fate.
Castles are smashed,
The work of giants, crumbled.
Ruined are the roofs,
Tumbled the towers.
Broken the barred gates.
Frost in the plaster,
Ceilings a-gaping.
Torn away, fallen,
Eaten by age.