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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FICCIONES JURÍDICAS DEL SIGLO XIX: EL CASO DE ANNA KARENINA
Debo confesar mi total y absoluto fracaso a la hora de disfrutar de la novela clásica de León Tolstoi Anna Karenina (publicada por entregas entre 1875 y 1877 e impresa en un solo volumen en 1878). Empecé con la paciencia habitual que empleo cuando leo textos muy largos (1096 páginas en mi edición, la excelente…
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A MUCH DEEPER DAMAGE: LOSING ACADEMIC LIFE TO AI
I was supposed to take part in a seminar next week, which I’ll have to miss, with a talk about how to use AI correctly. In this talk I was going to describe, once more, how the late Iain M. Banks presents AI in his Culture novels (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). The Culture is a post-scarcity,…
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UN DAÑO MUCHO MÁS PROFUNDO: ADIÓS A LA VIDA ACADÉMICA POR CULPA DE LA IA
La semana que viene iba a participar en un seminario, que tendré que perderme, con una charla sobre cómo utilizar correctamente la IA. En esta charla iba a describir, una vez más, cómo el difunto Iain M. Banks presenta la IA en sus novelas sobre la Cultura (véase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). La Cultura es una sociedad…
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MORE ON SECONDARY CHARACTERS: TANCREDO, THE ITALIAN APOLLO, IN EÇA DE QUEIROZ’S ‘OS MAIAS’ (1888)
The book I’m currently working on, a study of secondary characters, has a corpus composed of 19th century novels in diverse European languages. I started with nine authors, but I have decided to abandon Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf because I found it impossible to sustain my interest in her novel Gösta Berling’s Saga (1891), which…
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MÁS SOBRE PERSONAJES SECUNDARIOS: TANCREDO, EL APOLO ITALIANO, EN ‘OS MAIAS’ (1888) DE EÇA DE QUEIROZ
El libro en el que estoy trabajando actualmente, un estudio de los personajes secundarios, tiene un corpus compuesto por novelas del siglo XIX en diversas lenguas europeas. Empecé con nueve autores, pero he decidido abandonar a la escritora sueca Selma Lagerlöf porque me resulta imposible mantener el interés por su novela Gösta Berlings Saga (1891),…