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[View the story "Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference" on Storify] Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference 2nd July, 2012: University of Brighton Storified by Martin Eve · Tue, Jul 03 2012 09:39:57 RT @AlluviumJournal: We hear Alluvium author @djbduncan's causing a Miltonic sensation at #HEAdayC21. His article's going down well also! http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/Heidi James @DrKatyShaw Re Boxall's keynote, the C21 as liquid and instant, it occurs to me that the post-millennial drinks too much coffee! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Thanks so much to @DrKatyShaw for a tremendously useful conf on teaching contemporary lit #HEAdayC21Dennis Duncan RT @DrKatyShaw: Huge thanks to all who attended the symposium today and followed us on #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Huge thanks to all who attended the symposium today and followed us on #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Loved being in Brighton for #HEAdayC21 http://instagr.am/p/MkrvxLA3rV/Nicola Abram Final words from Nicole King touching on poss for interdisc coalition. That's it! Thanks to @DrKatyShaw for an inspiring day at #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Nicole King plenary #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw RT @dehester: fantastic range of new texts discussed by the contemporary narratives panel - i'd do their course! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Dinnen's last text is Super Sad True Love Story as set in the network fiction tradition (and potential failure?) #HEAdayC21Martin Eve fantastic range of new texts discussed by the contemporary narratives panel - i'd do their course! #HEAdayC21Diarmuid Hester Dinnen on workarounds for teaching rare technotexts: students do background reading, then workshop = tutor brings physical text #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Zara Dinnen mentions our book on Dave Eggers - One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity #HEAdayC21 http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?BookID=157243Continuum Literary Dinnen points out the problem of teaching McSweeney's: hard for all students to get hold of #HEAdayC21Martin Eve @ContinuumLit @martin_eve Nothing like a good clear PPT to stimulate audience engagement...and tweeting! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram RT @martin_eve: Dinnen talking about the unusual aesthetics of the literary journal McSweeney's. Edited by Dave Eggers. #HEAdayC21The Comics Grid Dinnen talking about the unusual aesthetics of the literary journal McSweeney's. Edited by Dave Eggers. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Zara Dinnen's definition of Technotext: A literary work that interrogates the inscription technology that produces it #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary N Katherine Hayles' model of a technotext: "a literary work that interrogates the inscription technology that produced it" the #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Now Zara Dinnen is on, talking on "technotexts" #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Dinnen looking at a particular Web 2.0 technological context #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Zara Dinnen on technotexts #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Now Zara Dinnen is on, talking on "technotexts" #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Not canonised, says Venezia, but part of an emergent order: new publishers branching out #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Michael Hogan Hillary Chute argues that some of the most effective feminist cultural production lies in edgy graphic novel, says Venezia #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Engaging history of academic responses to comics and graphic novels in gen and fun home partic by t venezia #headayc21Diarmuid Hester RT @martin_eve: Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Adeline Koh Now Venezia talking about Bechdel's Fun Home - double movement of authorial paternal identification says Venezia #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Maus as ur-text in canonisation of graphic novel #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Comics, as a term, enters discourse in late 19c. Graphic novels in 1960s. Venezia points out arguments against this. Validation. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Following the story's arc #HEAdayC21: converging focal points and refracting trajectories, towards an ethical denouement?John Wrighton @BobEaglestone I think Bianca was a little traumatised! Lots of great papers today. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Tony Venezia now up, speaking on the c21 texts he'd set, focusing on the graphic novel #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Leggett thinking through Moretti's 2 metaphors for local and global: waves for transnational and trees foe national #HEAdayC21 @afrayn Martin Eve “@DrKatyShaw @contemporaryfic on tour at Brighton Uni and HEA day #HEAdayC21 http://p.twimg.com/Awzq1a7CEAA74X9.jpg”Martin Eve Birkbeck doctoral researchers showcasing thoughtful design of an interesting and challenging UG module #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram @contemporaryfic on tour at Brighton Uni and HEA day #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/FBTyDmnCDr Katy Shaw Leggett arguing for British authors situated in a transnational mode: Cloud Atlas, Transmission and Lara #HEAdayC21Martin Eve On the other hand, says Leggett, there are many global literature courses and centres: St Andrews, Manchester #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Nationalist boundaries still enforced in HE syllabi, says Leggett - cites rise of Scottish courses in light of devolution #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Bianca Leggett invoking @BobEaglestone's condemnation of the term "British" in their recent conference title #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Finding room on contemporary fiction courses for what might appear out of fashion can actually enrich students' experiences #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary http://schoolboyerrors.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/literary-criticism-and-the-scientistic-imperative/ some thoughts avant la lettre on issues raised by mark slaters paper #headayc21Diarmuid Hester Now a Birkbeck panel, the last of the day, bringing out Bianca Leggett's transnational literatures to start #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @ContinuumLit: The pedagogical canon - texts chosen with student friendly content: gender, race, class #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez RT @ContinuumLit: Very clear trend of prize-winning literature (with a media identity) influencing course teaching #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez RT @ContinuumLit: Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez We hear Alluvium author @djbduncan's causing a Miltonic sensation at #HEAdayC21. His article's going down well also! http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/Alluvium Journal RT @martin_eve: Oh, and Dennis has just written a piece for @AlluviumJournal http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Alluvium Journal Duncan on problem of authors talking back in c21st #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KctOfWpUDr Katy Shaw Oh, and Dennis has just written a piece for @AlluviumJournal http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Dennis Duncan imagines Milton's author interview in response to the looming presence of the living author in c21 lit #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw "So, of course, ye Civil War had just happened" #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Duncan gives a hilarious slide showing the Amazon blurb that Milton would have written #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/9lTqru7PMartin Eve @diminutivebird @martin_eve I hear he writes a mean article also... http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Alluvium Journal Category of second material guides discursive approach - eg reviews, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Historical is the catch-all when students don't have critical or theoretical secondary sources, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve @martin_eve Agreed, Dennis Duncan a great example of working the crowd. The question is, will there be a second date?! #injoke #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram @martin_eve close proximity of teaching and wit here no doubt #headayc21Diarmuid Hester @martin_eve discussing q's of ethical form in C21 fiction, students can explore the politics of choices in pedagogy/theory/text? #HEAdayC21John Wrighton You should HIRE Dennis Duncan to give an academic paper. Hilarious hilarious guy and very interesting! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @DrKatyShaw: Dennis Duncan on longing for the death of the author in c21 lit assessment #HEAdayC21Caroline Magennis Students asked if anything specifically study of delineated c21 lit. Most responded with: no secondary material, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Oops, DD's paper is on bibliographical not biographical problem... Also important! (Though I'd like to hear first paper too!) #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram @DrWrighton can you elaborate on that? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Dennis Duncan on longing for the death of the author in c21 lit assessment #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw An ethical wager emerging via #HEAdayC21? Q. for panel: politics of pedagogy in C21 lit. made explicit by exploring ethics of form/fiction?John Wrighton Duncan has marking guidelines up for the structure of his paper: critical, theoretical, historical #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Dennis Duncan on the problem of the author in teaching C21 lit. Yes! What to do with living authors? Interview or ignore them? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram “@Casserine @martin_eve I've come across both Banville and Trevor on many syllabi both in Ireland and the USA” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @ContinuumLit: Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Last up, Dennis Duncan brings our attention to the bibliography. He told me on the train it could be summarised in 1 minute #HEAdayC21Martin Eve @ContinuumLit Worthwhile question - and use of book reviews to shape teaching C21 lit quickly sediments canon formation #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram RT @martin_eve: I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Slothrop Turner debating ways of teaching PD James' The Lighthouse #HEAdayC21Martin Eve @dehester a losel is a worthless person! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve but what IS a losel?! #HEADAYC21Diarmuid Hester Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Very clear trend of prize-winning literature (with a media identity) influencing course teaching #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Do we discuss wit and enjoyment in the classroom?, asks Turner. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Turner asks if texts being taught on HE lit courses are 'too easy'. Which critical value systems are at work here? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Turner points out under-taught prize winners: Hazard, Lively, Banville, Trevor #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Many neglected writers: John Banville, William Trevor, Shirley Hazzard, Penelope Lively #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Mark Slater polemically argues for an encounter bt creative writing and turner-lakoff-johnson & cognitive science #HEADAYC21Diarmuid Hester The pedagogical canon - texts chosen with student friendly content: gender, race, class #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Turner now examining an MA course on c21 fiction. Syllabus looks good from here. Mitchell, Sebald, DeLillo. No Pynchon #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Contemporary fiction courses built around a 'canon' of prize winning novelists #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Nick Turner asking what kinds of literary texts are (not) taught in HE? What new methods of teaching can be introduced? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Nicholas Turner now up, talking about sculpting c21 syllabuses. Ishiguro, Smith and McEwan on his MMU course. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Oh wait, no, we are allowed some constructivism. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Slater's provocative binary - critical practice as of mind, creative as of body - quietly gendered. 'Savage rhetoric' indeed! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Unfortunately, I have not read any of the cited neuroscience and am not a neuroscientist. I remain very sceptical though. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Slater has basically dismissed all forms of theoretical reading of literature & social construction. #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Slater has basically dismissed all forms of theoretical reading of literature & social construction. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve RT @ContinuumLit: Must twitter congratulate @martin_eve for a fantastic #HEAdayC21 talk. Led to lots of interesting, reflective discussion.Alluvium Journal Slater claims that neuroscience has undermined these premises and that subjectivity can be evaluated #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Can critical theory ever be united with creative practice? Reading after theory... #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Slater: assumptions of theory are that language is consciousness & that reality is linguistically determined #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Slater: creative practice could be the salvation of literature, revitalising & ensuring relevance, not its 'soft option' nemesis #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Slater claims that science is undermining the epistemological foundations of literary theory. Which theories? What science? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Lots of "embodiment" from Slater #HEAdayC21 #bingoMartin Eve RT @DrKatyShaw: @artsbrighton digital writing and theorising c21 literature at HEA symposium at Falmer #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/ULuAJSdkArts Brighton Uni We need to rethink the philosophical assumptions underpinning the teaching of post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Creative writing still viewed with suspicion says Slater. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Are people giving up Derrida to do accounting? What are the affects of the funding crisis? #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Slater citing Springerland(?), critiquing French theory and looking for vitality and epiphany #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Mark Slater offering an incisive & engaging discussion on ontological divide between creative practice & critical theory in HE #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram RT @martin_eve2012I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21W.A.S.T.E. Mark Slater on reinvigorating literary criticism in the c21st #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw ... relationship between practice & theory #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Some themes emerging from #HEAdayC21 - move away from post-modernism, difficult relationship between science & literature and...Continuum Literary Slater warns against bolting on creative practice to critical theory #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Slater warns that his argument is an attempt to push arguments to their limits and warns of savage rhetoric! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Mark Slater now up on theory and practice, drawing many thematic areas together #HEAdayC21Martin Eve David James on McEwan's Atonement as historicising itself, an example of C21 lit project 'to discuss where we stand' #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram RT @ContinuumLit: ...themselves a character and a space' - Lorna Sage, quoted by David James in his #HEAdayC21 talkAL Dugmore David James mentions our Contemporary Critical Perspectives book on Ian McEwan #HEAdayC21 http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=130612&SearchType=BasicContinuum Literary I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Martin Eve I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Martin Eve James warns against treating modernist fiction as a homogenised amoral block #HEAdayC21Martin Eve ...themselves a character and a space' - Lorna Sage, quoted by David James in his #HEAdayC21 talkContinuum Literary James applies my term "crypto-didacticism" to Atonement #HEAdayC21 #blowingmyowntrumpetMartin Eve David Janes on Atonement as case study of possibilities of post millennial lit #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw David James discussing the features, trends & traits of C21 writing #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary James thinking through McEwan's anti-high-modernism #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Lots of interesting tweets coming from the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at University of Brighton today! #HEAdayC21HEAcademy Must twitter congratulate @martin_eve for a fantastic #HEAdayC21 talk. Led to lots of interesting, reflective discussion.Continuum Literary James is looking at Atonement, to a predictably mixed reaction #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve James picks up on J. Palmer Parker's microcosmic focus for teaching. Sounds very much like Adorno's primacy of the object. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve James looking at Lorna Sage's critique of deconstruction, receivership and novelty. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve David James on teaching post millennial literature #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/FavyHghaDr Katy Shaw RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Will Smith Right, now I'm off the podium, David James is on, picking up where Peter Boxall left off with defining c21 lit. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve RT @DrKatyShaw: @martin_eve rethinking Adorno #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/rqV1ohXxMartin Eve RT @ContinuumLit: So exciting to learn about the new @artsbrighton C21 literature centre! #HEAdayC21John Wrighton So exciting to learn about the new @artsbrighton C21 literature centre! #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary @the_blochian Drawn to intersecting theories of temporality, modernity, & new technologies: i'm tuning in via #HEAdayC21 from TorontoJohn Wrighton @DrWrighton Sounds like some great discussion! What's been said about the novel form in the c21st? #HEAdayC21Caroline Edwards RT @DrWrighton: Cherry picks from #HEAdayC21: focusing the contemporary; teaching post-millennial lit; rethinking theory; novel form; questions of modernityNicholas Birns Thanks to @martin_eve @diminutivebird @DrKatyShaw @anthonylevings with @HEAcademy @ContinuumLit, @artsbrighton for #HEAdayC21 tweetsJohn Wrighton Cherry picks from #HEAdayC21: focusing the contemporary; teaching post-millennial lit; rethinking theory; novel form; questions of modernityJohn Wrighton @Herring1967 RT for #HEAdayC21 please my love!Dr Katy Shaw @DrMagennis follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @martin_eve speaking on utopia and the spirit of '68 #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @SussexEnglish @martin_eve on university, revolution and resistance #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Arts Brighton Uni Teaching Utopia. Martin Eve on Balano's 2666 and the universities' potential for re-envisioning how theory is taught - at #HEAdayc21Arts Brighton Uni RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Continuum Literary @martin_eve considering Bolano's 2666 in relation to Adorno's C20th critical theory #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary @martin_eve do new fictions require new ways of teaching? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Nicola Abram Literature team at #Brighton leads the thrust into the 21st century. Theory, technologies and creativity all examined at #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni @martin_eve rethinking Adorno #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/rqV1ohXxDr Katy Shaw @martin_eve has just flashed up a fab looking Prezi. Very C21! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram @HEAcademy Follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @ContinuumLit Thanks for the RT! Sorry I can't be at today's #HEAdayC21. Our online editor @martin_eve sounds like he's giving a great paperAlluvium Journal Am very much enjoying the University of Brighton mini-rock sweets #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/4TR3m64cContinuum Literary RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni RT @DrKatyShaw: Rethinking the logic of the 'crisis' in the humanities and arts #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni RT @DrKatyShaw: Theory, the post colonial and terror #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KNrTvG6lArts Brighton Uni RT @martin_eve: Who has access to digital writing if it requires a specific craft, asks Wilson #HEAdayC21 Arts Brighton Uni RT @DrKatyShaw: Digital writings in HE #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/WzTHS70QArts Brighton Uni Liz Sage: do demands for A&H to give account of impact resemble imperialistic terrorism? eg required to speak in alien tongue... #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram @DrKatyShaw Thanks, yes I have been reading today's #HEAdayC21 tweets. Really sorry I can't be there but the discussion sounds fascinating.Alluvium Journal @artsbrighton digital writing and theorising c21 literature at HEA symposium at Falmer #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/ULuAJSdkDr Katy Shaw Formulating a response to the terrorist call of the other #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @AlluviumJournal follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Rethinking the logic of the 'crisis' in the humanities and arts #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Theory, the post colonial and terror #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KNrTvG6lDr Katy Shaw @martin_eve and liz sage on theorising post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @martin_eve takes his place on the second panel of the day: theorising post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Digital writings in HE #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/WzTHS70QDr Katy Shaw The schedule for the day! #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/TShuYsSCDr Katy Shaw Wilson leaves us with permutations on the phrase "is it still writing?" #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Michael Wilson: digital texts introduce choice to narrative progression, endlessly defer completion & refuse linearity. #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Debate over hard-bounding of pages in online practice, says Wilson #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Who has access to digital writing if it requires a specific craft, asks Wilson #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Writing torn between a democratic art and an awe-some craft #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Notion of skilled craft returning to literature #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Return to notion of craft in art work, says Wilson, resurfacing in the digital #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Wilson: being published ain't what it used to be #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Michael Wilson: how far is writing a democratic practice in an age of digital technologies? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Digital writing promises democracy/accessibility, but has problems as predicated on writing and tech. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Wilson says that digital literature spans many fields. Social media, gaming, art writing, text sculpture, media arts #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Michael Wilson now talking about the effects of new digital technologies on writing, defining literature & impact on teaching #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Wilson speaking of terminological shifts. Text, narrative, book, fiction, writing. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Michael Wilson on digital interfaces with creative writing #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/m1QDMCRqDr Katy Shaw Last in this panel is Michael Wilson on Digital Writing. Old dogs and new tricks. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Moriarty's closing shot: how can we, or should we even, link teaching and employability agenda #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Note to self (and others!): look up UoBrighton's Work Write Live hub. Ideas for relevant volunteering opps for A&H students. #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram “@drkayem tho McCarthy's take on Modernism is idiosyncratic & there are cont writers who engage with Euro mod, e.g. Coetzee” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Module design sustainability and employability in cw #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Moriarty had AMEX sponsorship. I have a slide critiquing this in my presentation. Whoops. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve “@svejky @martin_eve interesting work as a result. Probably because literature in its essence is only quotation, I conjecture.” #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve “@svejky whereas 19c English writers engaged closely with the history of literature, as did the modernists & produced far more” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve “@svejky It's v telling that Pynchon & DFW have sustained engagements with early modern lit, & then compared to English” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve “@svejky I actually feel more strongly about it than that...not even failure to engage with modernism, but w the entire history” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Moriarty's project is at http://www.workwritelive.com (I think) #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve “@knightsben @martin_eve Have written about this myself. Can I recommend ... http://bit.ly/OUSSB4 #shamelessselfpromotion #HEAdayC21”Martin Eve Moriarty on creative writing and employability in the academy #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Moriarty's project attempted to fuse graduate employability with disciplinary integrity. Many buzzwords flying! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve @martin_eve Have written about this myself. Can I recommend ...http://bit.ly/OUSSB4 #shamelessselfpromotion #HEAdayC21Ben Knights “@EarlyModernist I'm mixing cultural hist w naval history, study of professionalization, hard to place into a seminar series.” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve @EarlyModernist that would have fitted in just fine here! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve “@svejky @martin_eve true! see also Tom McCarthy's constant lament about the refusal of English writers to engage with modernism” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Now Jess Moriarty speaking on "work, write, live". A project on inter-generational biographical writing #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Pleasanse argues for integration of creative in critical literature studies. Suggests as mode of assessment. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary I sense #HEAdayC21 bingo. "embodiment"Martin Eve Thoughtful provocations on creative writing as a critical practice from Helen Pleasance #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram Pleasanse argues for integration of creative in critical literature studies. Suggests as mode of assessment. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Pleasanse now giving a crash course in Sick Hebdige and sociology of the sublime. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve @ContinuumLit but saying that's a problem! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Problem with utilitarian "getting published" model of creative writing in academia. Neglects epistemological form of cr writing #HEAdayC21Martin Eve 'Getting published is the holy grail ofCreative Writing courses' Helen Pleasance #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Helen Pleasanse on Creative Writing in the Academy on now #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Creative awaiting emerged as an adjunct to Literary Studies - Helen Pleasance on Creative Writing in the Academy #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Creative writing panel #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/Xv6ojfx5Dr Katy Shaw Creative writing and the academy in the c21: challenges and debates #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw @svejky think that phrase continuously occurs in Julian Barnes' Sense of an Ending #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall: phase that obsessed with notions of embodiment #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Pleased to be at #HEAdayC21 - great programme for the day, with Peter Boxall's keynote setting the tone nowNicola Abram Slowing of motion in Tom McCarthy, Don DeLillo and others brings this local global disjunct to the fore, says Box all #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Box all looking at fictions that focus on locality through unwanted imposed globalities. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Boxall now talking on the difficulties of bounding C21 fiction. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary Intractable relation between global and local #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall paranthetically acknowledges problems of de-territorialised model - still experience the hard reality of checkpoints #HEAdayC21Martin Eve Novel and the future of the form in the c21st... #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw (does that delimit it in any way?) #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve C21 writing as grouped by writers dealing with a time of flux and shifting geopolitical conditions #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall now talking on the difficulties of bounding C21 fiction. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Marx says commodity form can also exist in realm of ideas, thus again encroaching on the academy #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Problems of defining what a c21 author is? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw To put this otherwise: isn't academic knowledge also pre-obsolete? Not unique to the commodity Form. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve I have problems with this theorisation of obsolescence through software - knowledge is cumulative #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall on Baumann's extra-territorialisation of power (Microsoft) - feeds into Hardt and Negri, I'd suspect #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall on Liquid modernity and the era of the instant #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Boxall: Baumann on modernity and speed. Moving now to examine specificity of c21 #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve RT @martin_eve: Boxall is using Sartre, though. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary 'Writing on contemporary literature involves us thinking about the outlines of an emerging historical era' Peter Boxall #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Boxall: ace meta-reference to twitter. #keeps a low profile# #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall: fusion of a-historic and the specific that illuminates our relationship to the present #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall quoting Sound and the Fury - train journey that shows perspectival dynamics brought by technology #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve At Teaching Post-Millennial Literature symposium today. One of our authors, Peter Boxall, kicks the proceedings off #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary Boxall: Nietzsche, Barthes and Agamben on untimeliness, says Boxall. Those who are aligned with their time are misaligned. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Boxall is using Sartre, though. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Very difficult to bring the contemporary into focus. Too immanent. I'm thinking of Foucault's empirico-transcendental doublet. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Prof Peter Boxall keynote on C21 literature and the problems of teaching the present #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Boxall introducing theoretical issues in speaking on 21C lit. Historical determinants. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve ... But first, a quick guide to the HEA - call put out for those who would like to run their own conferences on HE teaching #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve Conference kicking off with @DrKatyShaw introducing Peter Boxall #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve RT @DrMagennis: Excellent looking programme for #HEAdayC21, wish I could be there!Ben Knights Excellent looking programme for #HEAdayC21, wish I could be there!Caroline Magennis Room ready, tea and coffee on the way...plus a thousand pieces of Brighton rock! #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw RT @anthonylevings: Looking forward to the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at the University of Brighton today #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw Looking forward to the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at the University of Brighton today #HEAdayC21Anthony Levings
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