{"id":28,"date":"2013-03-13T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T14:05:31","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<form role=\"search\" method=\"get\" action=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/\" class=\"wp-block-search__button-inside wp-block-search__text-button aligncenter wp-block-search\" ><label class=\"wp-block-search__label screen-reader-text\" for=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" >Cerca<\/label><div class=\"wp-block-search__inside-wrapper\"  style=\"width: 464px\"><input class=\"wp-block-search__input\" id=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" type=\"search\" name=\"s\" required \/><button aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"wp-block-search__button wp-element-button\" type=\"submit\" >Search<\/button><\/div><\/form>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" style=\"width:465px;height:269px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen.png 1000w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen-768x445.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Joys of Teaching Literature<\/em>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/116328\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/116328\">yearly volumes<\/a> for free or read the volume collecting some of the entries (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.ujaen.es\/libro\/passionate-professing-the-context-and-practice-of-english-literature_149716\/\">Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of English Literature<\/a><\/em>, 2023). The comments option is not available, sorry, but you may contact me through my e-mail address, <a href=\"mailto:Sara.Martin@uab.cat\">Sara.Martin@uab.cat<\/a>. The contents of this blog are protected by a type 4 Creative Common License (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4625 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-cultural-studies category-english-studies category-general tag-cory-doctorow tag-dave-eggers tag-enshittification tag-facebook tag-sarah-wynn-william\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/10\/18\/an-accidental-trilogy-on-pre-ai-tech-capitalism-novel-memoirs-essay\/\" target=\"_self\" >AN ACCIDENTAL TRILOGY ON (PRE-AI) TECH CAPITALISM: NOVEL, MEMOIRS, ESSAY<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-18T08:41:48+00:00\">18 d&#039;octubre de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Tech capitalism has inspired a flood of publications which shows no signs of abating. I can\u2019t call myself an expert on the matter, which I mainly follow as a much-concerned lay person through the news and social media, but I have recently read two books (a memoir, an essay) that form a sort of accidental&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4623 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-estudios-culturales category-general tag-capitalismo tag-cory-doctorow tag-dave-eggers tag-facebook tag-mierdificacion tag-sarah-wynn-william\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/10\/18\/una-trilogia-accidental-sobre-el-capitalismo-tecnologico-pre-ia-novela-memorias-ensayo\/\" target=\"_self\" >UNA TRILOG\u00cdA ACCIDENTAL SOBRE EL CAPITALISMO TECNOL\u00d3GICO (PRE-IA): NOVELA, MEMORIAS, ENSAYO<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-18T08:38:37+00:00\">18 d&#039;octubre de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">El capitalismo tecnol\u00f3gico ha inspirado una avalancha de publicaciones que no muestra se\u00f1ales de disminuir. No puedo considerarme un experta en el tema, que sigo como profana muy preocupada a trav\u00e9s de las noticias y las redes sociales, pero recientemente he le\u00eddo dos libros (unas memorias, un ensayo) que forman una especie de trilog\u00eda accidental&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4612 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-contemporary-literature category-cultural-studies category-english-studies category-film-studies category-general category-literary-studies category-tv-series tag-adaptations-series tag-ba-degrees tag-brideshead-revisited tag-uk-prestige tag-usa-prestige\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/10\/08\/on-the-appreciation-of-foreign-cultures-and-why-take-a-degree-in-english-studies\/\" target=\"_self\" >ON THE APPRECIATION OF FOREIGN CULTURES (AND WHY TAKE A DEGREE IN ENGLISH STUDIES)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-08T15:36:47+00:00\">8 d&#039;octubre de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I based my last lecture for my elective subject on audiovisual adaptations and production design on Sarah Cardwell\u2019s volume Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel (Manchester UP, 2002). In what must have been originally her PhD dissertation, Cardwell vindicates the specific aesthetics of television and focuses on four case studies: Brideshead Revisited (1981), Pride&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4610 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-docencia category-estudiantes category-estudios-culturales category-estudios-literarios category-general category-literatura-contemporanea category-series-tv tag-brideshead-revisited tag-estados-unidos-prestigio tag-filologia-inglesa tag-grado-estudios-ingleses tag-gran-bretana-reino-unido-prestigio tag-miniseries\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/10\/08\/sobre-la-apreciacion-de-las-culturas-extranjeras-y-por-que-cursar-un-grado-en-estudios-ingleses\/\" target=\"_self\" >SOBRE LA APRECIACI\u00d3N DE LAS CULTURAS EXTRANJERAS (Y POR QU\u00c9 CURSAR UN GRADO EN ESTUDIOS INGLESES)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-08T15:25:25+00:00\">8 d&#039;octubre de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Bas\u00e9 mi \u00faltima clase para mi optativa sobre adaptaciones audiovisuales y dise\u00f1o de producci\u00f3n en el volumen de Sarah Cardwell Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel (Manchester UP, 2002). En lo que debi\u00f3 ser originalmente su tesis doctoral, Cardwell reivindica la est\u00e9tica espec\u00edfica de la televisi\u00f3n y se centra en cuatro estudios de caso:&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4607 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-contemporary-literature category-cultural-studies category-english-studies category-feminism category-gender-studies category-masculinities-studies category-masculinity tag-1960s tag-father tag-fatherhood tag-fathers tag-sociology tag-united-states\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/10\/03\/the-turn-towards-modern-fatherhood-what-happened-in-the-late-1960s-in-the-usa\/\" target=\"_self\" >THE TURN TOWARDS MODERN FATHERHOOD: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LATE 1960S (IN THE USA)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-03T07:17:58+00:00\">3 d&#039;octubre de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I\u2019m reading bibliography for my book on sons\u2019 memoirs about fathers, which is now beginning to pass its first preliminary stage, though I still have no title, contract, or a delivery date. My current target is checking whether my intuitions can be transformed into a solid working hypothesis and a sound thesis. 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