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Tag Archives: Blurb
Blurb – Grace Kelly
Superbly succinct, here is Grace Kelly’s Twitter shaped blurb: Grace Kelly – W.B. Yeats and Jorge Luis Borges, ‘infinitely in geometric progression’ #engpgconf2015 (click the birdie) And blurbs, unlike bios (see below), can be sent right up to the conference … Continue reading
Blurb – Matthew Alexander
@textualsilence – Accused of ‘adolescent prurience.’ Deemed to be antiporn. Just what is the point of DFW’s ‘Big Red Son?’ #engpgconf2015 (click the birdie) If, like Johann and Matthew, you can keep below 126 characters, your ‘Twitter Shaped Blurb’ will feature … Continue reading
Blurb – @JohannBattaglini
@JohannBattaglini – King Arthur’s reign in the English Prose Brut: historical account or (and?) romance narratives? (click the birdie) A fantastic effort for our first ‘Twitter Shaped Blurb’ from Johann Battaglini, who has managed to come in at a concise … Continue reading
Twitter Shaped Blurbs
We thought it might be fun to run this one again for those PGs presenting papers at the English Postgraduate Conference 2015. All you have to do is to craft a 140 character ‘blurb’ that can be tweeted/blogged in the … Continue reading
Blurb – Abrar Mujaddadi
@a_mujaddidi asks: slurs in English language films, when subtitled into Arabic..is racism concealed?
Blurb – Glyn Morgan
A paper by @GR_Morgan about the failings of language to express trauma + how non-mimetic fiction can help improve empathy and understanding
Blurb – Pauline Rowe
Contemplation of poetry as the voice of experience, as a contrary discourse to the prevalent medical language of psychiatric services.
Blurb – Grace Kelly
Does the status of language and narrative change when it is committed to paper or to memory? Borges explores these creative processes.
Blurb HQ
We have two blurbs on the blog and twitter page. Any other offers? What you need to do (if you wish to): Use 140 characters to sum up your paper (this includes spaces) Email the ‘blurb’ to this email – … Continue reading
Blurb – Matthew Alexander
In the 90s, a white, privileged, heterosexual male writes queer, and Black-American female voices, respectively. Why the critical silence?
Blurb – Gill Phillips
Spinoza’s Ethics for an English speaking audience. Translate his book, or experiment with his ideas and fictionalised lives? Eliot did both.
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