The Joys of Teaching Literature, started in September 2010 and with a Spanish version since July 2021, is a blog for ranting and raving about teaching and researching English Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies, and other aspects of the Anglophone world. I publish a post once a week, usually on Monday. Please, download the yearly volumes for free or read the volume collecting some of the entries (Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of English Literature, 2023). The comments option is not available, sorry, but you may contact me through my e-mail address, Sara.Martin@uab.cat. The contents of this blog are protected by a type 4 Creative Common License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)).
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ACIAGOS CONSEJOS: POR QUÉ LOS ESTUDIANTES QUE DEPENDEN DE LA IA NO PUEDEN SER NUESTROS SOCIOS PEDAGÓGICOS
Hoy leo un artículo firmado por, cito, “Mary Curnock Cook CBE, quien preside el Instituto Dyson y es fideicomisaria de HEPI, y Bess Brennan, Jefa de Asociaciones Universitarias con Cadmus, que está llevando a cabo una serie de eventos de colaboración con líderes universitarios del Reino Unido sobre los retos y oportunidades de la IA…
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WHY VICTORIAN NOVELS ARE SO LONG (AND WHY WE LACK PATIENCE TO READ THEM)
You might think that Victorian novels are so long because of their serialization in weekly or monthly instalments, sold either as part of periodical publications or independently. However, this business practice, introduced by Charles Dickens’s publisher, Chapman, with the serialization of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 instalments between March 1836 and November…
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POR QUÉ LAS NOVELAS VICTORIANAS SON TAN LARGAS (Y POR QUÉ NOS FALTA PACIENCIA PARA LEERLAS)
Se podría pensar que las novelas victorianas son tan largas debido a su serialización en entregas semanales o mensuales, vendidas como parte de publicaciones periódicas o de forma independiente. Sin embargo, esta práctica comercial, introducida por el editor de Charles Dickens, Chapman, con la serialización de The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 entregas…
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(DON) JUANITO SANTA CRUZ: THE SEDUCER AS MINOR CHARACTER IN FORTUNATA Y JACINTA
In this summer of very long books, I have re-read with great pleasure Benito Pérez Galdós’s masterpiece Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887), a novel certainly far superior to Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina, but still not hailed as the universal classic it should be. Blame for this a certain prejudice against Spanish literature and…