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[?]Andrew Shields » 🌐
@AndrewShields@mas.to

From Toni Morrison’s “Paradise" to Fado singer Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999). 111-words.ghost.io/from-toni-m

[?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
@dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Imposter Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla

To all the versions of ourselves the world never gets to see [hold for applause]

Alt...To all the versions of ourselves the world never gets to see [hold for applause]

    [?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
    @getbookshelves@mastodon.social

    📅 This Day in Literature — May 25

    Born on this day: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)

    The father of Transcendentalism. Mentor to Thoreau and inspirer of Whitman.

    lk0.eu/bks164m

      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

      in 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

      During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis. And once released, he wrote one final poem: “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898).

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wi

      Books by Oscar Wilde at PG:
      gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111

      Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) on May 23 1889. Picture by W. and D. Downey. A black-and-white studio photograph of Oscar Wilde with dark, wavy hair seated in an ornately carved chair. He wears a double-breasted suit with a patterned cravat, white pocket square, and a large floral boutonnière. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Oscar_Wilde_(1854-1900)_1889,_May_23._Picture_by_W._and_D._Downey.jpg

      Alt...Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) on May 23 1889. Picture by W. and D. Downey. A black-and-white studio photograph of Oscar Wilde with dark, wavy hair seated in an ornately carved chair. He wears a double-breasted suit with a patterned cravat, white pocket square, and a large floral boutonnière. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Oscar_Wilde_(1854-1900)_1889,_May_23._Picture_by_W._and_D._Downey.jpg

        [?]Grenhas Valhalla » 🌐
        @Grenhas@mast.lat


        Autor: ✒️📖✒️
        «Quizá no amamos lo suficiente la vida. ¿Ha observado usted que solo la muerte despierta nuestros sentimientos?.»

          [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
          @scotlit@mastodon.scot

          A Restless Intellect

          “Widely respected – & regularly attacked (once physically) – in her lifetime, she is now largely neglected; an intriguing aside to feminism or to agnosticism. Dixie deserves better.”

          Florence Dixie (1855–1905) – novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, campaigning journalist, suffragist, & more – was born , 25 May. Dr Valentina Bold explores Dixie’s roving life

          @litstudies

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          thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-

            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

            @litstudies

            Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
            Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
            Available on Open Access via Project MUSE

            Grace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction

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            muse.jhu.edu/article/857655

            Abstract Born in 1855, Lady Florence Dixie was a prolific writer and women’s rights activist until her death in 1905. She was a poet, dramatist, novelist, travel writer, children’s writer, and war correspondent. She campaigned outspokenly for educational and professional equality, the amendment of divorce and marriage laws, Scottish and Irish Home Rule, animal rights and dress reform. Yet despite this high volume of productivity and public notoriety during her lifetime, her work has been critically neglected in both the Scottish and British literary fields. This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing work by scholars such as Valentina Bold, Catherine Barnes Stevenson, Nan Bowman Albinski, Precious McKenzie Stearns and Taryne Jade Taylor who have endeavoured to rediscover and reaffirm Dixie’s life and work. This paper explores Dixie’s utilisation of the speculative text for consciousness-raising (CR) purposes. It demonstrates that by combining the speculative text with an overtly political message, Dixie was able to expand the boundaries of literary genre in this period. The examples discussed illuminate Dixie’s attempt to explore a more nuanced and fluid conception of gender politics, which moves beyond gender inversion or the invasion of the masculinist ‘public’ sphere. Keywords Florence Dixie, Gloriana, Isola, consciousness-raising, nineteenth-century speculative fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, feminist pantheism, motherhood, gender, sexuality

            Alt...Abstract Born in 1855, Lady Florence Dixie was a prolific writer and women’s rights activist until her death in 1905. She was a poet, dramatist, novelist, travel writer, children’s writer, and war correspondent. She campaigned outspokenly for educational and professional equality, the amendment of divorce and marriage laws, Scottish and Irish Home Rule, animal rights and dress reform. Yet despite this high volume of productivity and public notoriety during her lifetime, her work has been critically neglected in both the Scottish and British literary fields. This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing work by scholars such as Valentina Bold, Catherine Barnes Stevenson, Nan Bowman Albinski, Precious McKenzie Stearns and Taryne Jade Taylor who have endeavoured to rediscover and reaffirm Dixie’s life and work. This paper explores Dixie’s utilisation of the speculative text for consciousness-raising (CR) purposes. It demonstrates that by combining the speculative text with an overtly political message, Dixie was able to expand the boundaries of literary genre in this period. The examples discussed illuminate Dixie’s attempt to explore a more nuanced and fluid conception of gender politics, which moves beyond gender inversion or the invasion of the masculinist ‘public’ sphere. Keywords Florence Dixie, Gloriana, Isola, consciousness-raising, nineteenth-century speculative fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, feminist pantheism, motherhood, gender, sexuality

              [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
              @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

              AIR AND EXERCISE. He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, though more vulgarly, expressed, at the cart's arse.

              A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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              @histodons

              Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AIR AND EXERCISE. He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, though more vulgarly, expressed, at the cart's arse. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

              Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AIR AND EXERCISE. He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, though more vulgarly, expressed, at the cart's arse. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh

                To Ingmar Bergman, whose film Wild Strawberries was an inspiration for this book

                Alt...To Ingmar Bergman, whose film Wild Strawberries was an inspiration for this book

                  [?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
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                  📖 Towel Day Sci-Fi Read: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

                  H.G. Wells invented time travel fiction with this 1895 novella. Journey to the year 802,701, where humanity has split into two species — the gentle Eloi and the sinister Morlocks. Short, gripping, and endlessly influential.

                  Read for free in BookShelves:
                  lk0.eu/bks17m

                    [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                    @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                    "All text in human history before the deep learning revolution was produced by humans. Now, however, the rate at which AI is producing text is increasing very fast. Eventually, AIs will produce more text than humans and the ratio will flip. This in fact makes human-written text more valuable, especially since it is that uncorrelated human text which goes into training AIs in the first place. As AI gets more pervasive, therefore, the value of human-produced text will only rise.

                    It is vital for civilisation that we continue to produce authentic culture. One form of risk for AI systems has been termed “mode collapse”; this is the idea that all AI outputs sound roughly similar. As AI becomes a greater fraction of our cultural output, this influences human output, too, to sound more like the AIs, resulting in a collapse in diversity and rich, original cultural production rooted in the deep contexts of ordinary life. If everyone ends up sounding like ChatGPT because we read so much AI-written prose, the total diversity of human written output goes down, and everyone ends up sounding like a peppy LinkedIn post. It is important, therefore, to encourage diverse human literature to continue to be produced, and indeed one hopes that human writing becomes more eccentric, wild, and experimental as time goes on. Part of the way we encourage this is through literary prizes. Maintaining their integrity is vital.

                    Storytelling is an old activity and, as anyone who has told a story to a young child knows, one deeply fundamental to who we are and how we learn. Many activities will become dominated by AI over time, and this may even be to the good; humans were not put on this earth to maintain Excel models. But in the arts and in literature, we must keep going. Resist demoralisation!"

                    newstatesman.com/science-tech/

                      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                      @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                      The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich

                      For the descendant communities of Bertie County and Hertford County, North Carolina, who preserved the stories of women like Hannah Crafts for future generations.

                      Alt...For the descendant communities of Bertie County and Hertford County, North Carolina, who preserved the stories of women like Hannah Crafts for future generations.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Iglesia del Lubridio. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Rebirth. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Renacer. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          The Thorn. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          La espina. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz

                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                            Church of Lubridium. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                            [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                            @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                            Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton

                            To the dedicated staff, volunteers, partners, and financial supporters of the Clinton Foundation, Library, and School of Public Service, and to the memory of Ellen Verweij, a fine Dutch nurse who lost her life while serving in our HIV/AIDS initiative in Lesotho

                            Alt...To the dedicated staff, volunteers, partners, and financial supporters of the Clinton Foundation, Library, and School of Public Service, and to the memory of Ellen Verweij, a fine Dutch nurse who lost her life while serving in our HIV/AIDS initiative in Lesotho

                              [?]Thomas Typewriter » 🌐
                              @thomastypewriter.art@thomastypewriter.art

                              and the next assignment is…

                              If you are interested, the full list of Great Works of Art that I am working through is available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/143132846/ [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                              If you are interested, the full list of Great Works of Art that I am working through is available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/143132846/

                              and the next assignment is…

                              Alt...and the next assignment is…

                              [?]Coach Sankhavaram ® » 🌐
                              @paninid@mastodon.world

                              🖖🏼

                              A graphic featuring white text on a solid orange background. The top of the image contains the words "Science Fiction" in a large, bold, sans-serif sans-serif font. Below that, the text "is the" is in a small, sans-serif font, followed by "JAZZ" in a very large, bold, sans-serif font. The text continues with "of" and "literature" in a medium-sized, serif font. At the bottom, the name "David Brin" is written in a white, cursive script.

                              Alt...A graphic featuring white text on a solid orange background. The top of the image contains the words "Science Fiction" in a large, bold, sans-serif sans-serif font. Below that, the text "is the" is in a small, sans-serif font, followed by "JAZZ" in a very large, bold, sans-serif font. The text continues with "of" and "literature" in a medium-sized, serif font. At the bottom, the name "David Brin" is written in a white, cursive script.

                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                Ruan descubrió que la Luna es un proyector suizo con lag, que las pelirrojas son bonos basura y que el amor capitalista mata tortugas marinas...
                                fictograma.com/d/2990-hora-ext

                                  [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                  @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                  “Si Enzo era bossa nova y yo speed metal financiero… Carolina era el monopolio visual del aula. Y los payasos, definitivamente, alienígenas mal camuflados.”
                                  fictograma.com/d/2991-hora-ext

                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                    "La teoría del vacío se estudia... a veces. Pensar en lo que devora al mundo como pura inexistencia es peligroso. El mago pronunció la clave. Donde había sombra, ahora hay luz. Donde estaba el vacío... ahora está..."
                                    fictograma.com/d/2992-el-mago-

                                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                      “Hay recuerdos que no deberían revivirse.”

                                      Una máquina capaz de reconstruir la memoria exacta.
                                      Un líquido cefalorraquídeo convertido en llave.
                                      Una joven obsesionada con volver a escuchar a los muertos.
                                      fictograma.com/d/2996-hipoterm

                                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                        OBSTROPULOUS. Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson.

                                        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                        --
                                        @histodons

                                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): OBSTROPULOUS. Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): OBSTROPULOUS. Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                          Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori A. Winrock

                                          for— + my little moonwalkers, Sallie + Rosa + my mother, Sally +the twin

                                          Alt...for— + my little moonwalkers, Sallie + Rosa + my mother, Sally +the twin

                                            [?]Dead Poets Daily » 🌐
                                            @deadpoetsdaily@mastodon.social

                                            ‘Tranquil’ by Sally Bruce Kinsolving

                                            deadpoetsdaily.com/p/sally-bru

                                              [?]Andrew Jennings » 🌐
                                              @andyjennings@aus.social

                                              there is a warning for all of us in Olga Tokarczuk’s admission that she used an AI to “help with ideas” in her latest book. The brilliant author of “Flights”, winner of the Nobel prize for literature. Her latest book (“The Empusium”)? Boring repetitive sludge, as you would expect

                                                [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                Ruan descubrió que la Luna es un proyector suizo con lag, que las pelirrojas son bonos basura y que el amor capitalista mata tortugas marinas...
                                                fictograma.com/d/2990-hora-ext

                                                  [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                  @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                  “Si Enzo era bossa nova y yo speed metal financiero… Carolina era el monopolio visual del aula. Y los payasos, definitivamente, alienígenas mal camuflados.”
                                                  fictograma.com/d/2991-hora-ext

                                                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                    "La teoría del vacío se estudia... a veces. Pensar en lo que devora al mundo como pura inexistencia es peligroso. El mago pronunció la clave. Donde había sombra, ahora hay luz. Donde estaba..."
                                                    fictograma.com/d/2992-el-mago-

                                                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                      “Hay recuerdos que no deberían revivirse.”

                                                      Una máquina capaz de reconstruir la memoria exacta.
                                                      Un líquido cefalorraquídeo convertido en llave.
                                                      Una joven obsesionada con volver a escuchar a los muertos.
                                                      fictograma.com/d/2996-hipoterm

                                                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                        En "La montaña mágica, Cap. 7 /10": Hans Castorp pide ver a su primo muerto. En la oscuridad rojiza de la sesión espiritista, Joachim aparece… mirándolo fijamente...
                                                        fictograma.com/d/2993-la-monta

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