So happy to find out that Textual Practice published my article on world literature! It reads Asian and European literary traditions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to extend Casanova's world literary space. It's open access here: https://t.co/YXSQl4xDCw
NEW: Oxford's Saïd Business School has appointed Dr Athol Williams as its Poet Laureate, in a first for business schools globally.
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Many powerful, if sweeping, claims last night. Unsure what 'at the UN every country has an equal voice, but not the same muscle' means. Shocking that Adama Dieng had to remind the panellists of the UN's colonial origins. Glad that Valerie Amos pressured the UN on accountability.
Had the pleasure of listening to Simon Horobin’s ongoing work on Lewis and Tolkien yesterday. Absolutely inspiring research. Very glad to be able to attend @OxLifeWriting’s events again.
Favourite lines from a poem by W. S. Merwin from this evening’s Professor of Poetry lecture by A. E. Stallings: ‘you die without knowing | whether anything you wrote was any good | if you have to be sure don't write’.
I guess the words are 人 (human) and 仁 (humane), though colloquially and in writing it is unlikely for one to misread/mishear the standalone 人 as ‘humane’ because it would have to be written or said alongside other characters 有 (have) 人 (human) 情 (feeling) to be ‘humane’.
‘We distinguish in English, by sound, ‘human’ from ‘humane’. Chinese does not; the Chinese speaker must distinguish the two by context’ (Margaret Masterman)
Spoke at Exeter’s Subject Family Symposium last night about Leonard Woolf’s career in Ceylon. Deepest thanks to @rentravailer, @DrNicoleKing, & of course to @becimay for recommending ‘Insurgent Empire’ by @PriyamvadaGopal. (Up early today and omw to the Nat Archives @ Kew.)
@becimay I’ll keep an eye out for it and will write to you! Your essay reminded me of something I wrote and posted on Instagram almost 5 years ago. (It’s a silly little poem… ignore everything except the last line…)
Can biographical fiction depict a historical figure more accurately than biographies? In my new article, I show how this is possible for one kind of biofiction. It is open access: https://t.co/gP5Op3acvG @bodleianlibs@engfac@OxLifeWriting@Soc_of_Authors@nypl@Kings_College
I have been to the Archives Centre at King’s so often, but I am always left a little stunned by how this part of the College looks like every time I leave. @Kings_College@Cambridge_Uni