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Explorations in the Ergodic

As our lives become more networked, people are engaging more and more with structures. But they are not merely inhabiting these structures – they are…

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Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism

Robert W. Jones II March 26, 2013 1 Comment aesthetic experience Alexander Technique Alfred Korzybski American Pragmatist philosophy body body-mind-language collage cut-up texts cybernetics experimental literature Feldenkrais method Moshé Feldenkreis neuroscience perception Richard Shusterman semantics somaesthetics W. Grey Walter Wilhelm Reich William S. Burroughs Zen meditation

As literary scholars we are often bending and stretching our frame of reference looking for a new lens with which to examine texts to provide fresh insight and unique views. We beg, borrow and steal ideas from…

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Re-Writing Belfast

Caroline Magennis March 26, 2013 2 Comments 2013 Arts Council of Northern Ireland BBC Belfast bisexuality Ciaran Carson City Hall flag protests Fat Lad Glenn Patterson Good Friday Agreement Good Vibrations Healing through Remembering Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity John Millar Lapsed Protestant literature Northern Star post-conflict Northern Ireland pre-Troubles Era RMS Oceanic Robert McLiam Wilson Stewart Parker Studies on Hysteria The International The Mill for Grinding Old People Young Titanic Quarter Transitional Justice Institute Ulster Journal of Archaeology United Irish Rebellion University of Ulster

In April 2012, the Northern Irish writer Glenn Patterson published his eighth novel, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, with Faber. The book is the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s first ever…

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Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup

Jacob Murphy March 26, 2013 8 Comments Adam Roberts adaptation studies Android Karenina BBC costume drama Charles Dickens Coleridge Cook death of the author Franz Kafka Great Expectations Harry Potter parodies hybrid text I Am Scrooge Jane Austen literary adaptation literary canon literary genre literary mashup Lolcatz mashup fiction Meowmorphosis Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Quirk Books Roland Barthes Seth Graeme-Smith The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…