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The Joys of Teaching Literature, Vol 4, 2013-14 Sara Martín, The Joys of Teaching Literature, Vol 4, 2013-14 THE JOYS OF TEACHING LITERATURE VOLUME 7: September 2016- August 2017 Sara Martín Alegre Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2017 blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre 1 Contents 6 September 2016 / ON THE VERGE OF OBLIVION: HOW WRITERS (MAY) FADE FROM SIGHT ................................................................................................................................ 1 13 September 2016 / THE PROBLEM OF THE DWINDLING ATTENTION SPAN: HOW IT AFFECTS TEACHING LITERATURE ...................................................................................... 4 20 September 2016 / WHAT FOR?: ON GIVING OURSELVES TOO MUCH (ACADEMIC) TROUBLE ........................................................................................................................... 7 27 September 2016 / GOOD BUT NOT GREAT: ROBERTO CALASSO’S DIAGNOSIS OF CURRENT LITERATURE .................................................................................................... 10 4 October 2016 / MEDIA EXPOSURE AND THE OSBCURE PROFESSOR IN THE AGE OF THE YOUTUBER ............................................................................................................... 13 11 October 2016 / REPRESENTING MEN’S FRIENDSHIP IN FICTION: DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON’T ........................................................................................... 15 18 October 2016 / TRIGGER WARNING: FEAR OF TRAUMA AS A MAJOR OBSTACLE TO AN EDUCATION IN CITIZENSHIP ..................................................................................... 18 25 October 2016 / AWARDS AND PRIZES: NO GOOD FOR LITERATURE ........................ 22 1 November 2016 / PROFESSIONAL ANNIVERSARIES: MISSING RITUAL ....................... 24 8 November 2016 / AFTER EUROCON 2016 BARCELONA: AUTHORS, READERS, ACADEMICS ..................................................................................................................... 26 15 November 2016 / APOCALYPSE SOON: BETRAYED BY THE WOMEN WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP ............................................................................................................................ 29 22 November 2016 / RISING FEES, FALLING JOBS, COLLAPSING STANDARDS: THE UNIVERSITY HEADING FOR DISASTER ............................................................................. 32 29 November 2016 / CINEMA NEEDS WRITING!: WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SEE? ............ 34 6 December 2016 / CYBORG VS POSTHUMAN: OBVIOUS DISTINCTIONS ...................... 37 13 December 2016 / WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DESCRIPTION? (WITH A STORY ABOUT COGNITIVE POETICS) ...................................................................................................... 39 20 December 2016 / BREAKING POINT: THINKING OF THOSE STILL WAITING FOR TENURE ........................................................................................................................... 42 4 January 2017 / SEEKING NEW READING PROJECTS: A NEW YEAR’S ANTI-RESOLUTION ........................................................................................................................................ 45 11 January 2017 / HEARING VOICES (IN ROGUE ONE): WHY DUBBING SHOULD BE ABANDONED ................................................................................................................... 47 18 January 2017 / THE BOOMERANG EFFECT: WHY MARKING IS SO EXHAUSTING ...... 50 24 January 2017 / READING DRAMA (AND CONSIDERING DIALOGUE IN FICTION) ....... 53 31 January 2017 / GOODBYE, PALOMA CHAMORRO AND THANK YOU SO MUCH: GRIEVING FOR A LOST TV MODEL .................................................................................. 56 7 February 2017 / RESISTING GENDER BINARISM: JACK HALBERSTAM (IN BARCELONA) ........................................................................................................................................ 59 14 February 2017 / HELLO, HANDSOME!: ON DESCRIBING MALE BEAUTY IN FICTION 62 21 February 2017 / THE CHARISMA OF SUPPORTING ACTORS: PAUL BETTANY (AND THE ‘THAT GUYS’) .................................................................................................................. 65 28 February 2017 / CELEBRATING JUDY AND POPPY: GREAT FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ZOOTOPIA AND TROLLS .................................................................................................. 68 7 March 2017 / BE BOLD FOR CHANGE: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2017 ........... 71 14 March 2017 / A WRITER THINKS ABOUT HIS CRAFT: GEORGE SAUNDERS ............... 74 21 March 2017 / WONDERING HOW (POPULAR) CULTURE IS TRANSMITTED (WITH A REFERENCE TO STAR WARS) ........................................................................................... 77 28 March 2017 / SEEKING A NEW VISION FOR UTOPIA ................................................. 80 4 April 2017 / GURB, STILL AT LARGE: REVISITING EDUARDO MENDOZA’S QUIRKY BARCELONA TALE ........................................................................................................... 83 18 April 2017 / WHEN OFFICIAL CENSORSHIP EXISTED IN SPAIN: RECALLING THE CASE OF MANUEL DE PEDROLO .............................................................................................. 86 25 April 2017 / STUCK IN A RUT: MISOGYNY AND FEMINISM ....................................... 89 2 May 2017 / FOR STUDENTS: HOW A UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT WORKS .................. 93 9 May 2017 / BRIDGING GAPS (AND FEELING SPLIT) BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES 97 16 May 2017 / CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (AND THE MATTER OF SPANISH NEO- VICTORIAN FICTION) ..................................................................................................... 100 23 May 2017 / BLURRED LINES: TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE WRITERS OF THE PAST ...................................................................................................................................... 103 30 May 2017 / ON THE DECLINE OF CINEMA (WITH SOME MUSINGS ABOUT THE 1980s) ...................................................................................................................................... 106 6 June 2017 / REVIEWING THE VAMPIRE: WHAT SEEMS TO BE AT STAKE .................. 110 13 June 2017 / ASEXUALITY REVISITED (WITH SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT LABELS) ..... 113 20 June 2017 / POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE POSTMODERNISM: SEEKING A NEW LABEL FOR THE NEW TIMES ................................................................................ 116 4 July 2017 / TRYING TO CATCH UP…: A BOOK ON RECENT (SCOTTISH) LITERATURE. 119 11 July 2017 / RETHINKING THE POSTCOLONIAL: VANDANA SINGH, INDIAN SF WRITER ...................................................................................................................................... 122 8 August 2017 / KINGS OF DANCE, MEN IN BALLET: FROM LOUIS XIV TO SERGEI POLUNIN ....................................................................................................................... 126 22 August 2017 / INDOCTRINATING YOUNG MEN: IN SEARCH OF IDEALS .................. 129 29 August 2017 / A FAST AGEING CULTURE: (NEW) PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF POPULAR FICTIONS ....................................................................................................... 131 CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE/LICENCIA .................................................................... 135 PLEASE, NOTE: These are the posts that I have published in my academic professional blog The Joys of Teaching Literature (blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/, since September 2010-) between September 2016 and August 2017. The volume, like the six previous ones, covers, then, a complete academic year. I have not re-edited the texts. They may show some dissimilarities with the final published posts. The differences are, however, negligible. Sara Martín Alegre, Barcelona, August 2017 [email protected] @SaraMartinUAB gent.uab.cat/saramartinalegre 6 September 2016 / ON THE VERGE OF OBLIVION: HOW WRITERS (MAY) FADE FROM SIGHT We, readers, seem to believe that the permanence of writers is automatic. Nothing needs to be done to have any book we want at our command, whether it is first-hand or second-hand. Only irrelevant authors and works sink into nothingness. We smile smugly whenever someone praises a long-forgotten author nobody else has heard of, never mind that this person was a best-selling writer in his or her time. Matters, however, are not that simple and the process by which the machinery that moves forward a writer’s career grinds to a halt is always worth-considering. These musings come about because of the two dead authors occupying much of my time this summer and for very different reasons: Patrick O’Brian and Manuel de Pedrolo. I have now started reading the ninth novel in the highly addictive Aubrey- Maturin series by O’Brian, which expands to twenty finished volumes and an unfinished one. As I have narrated here in this blog, I have translated Pedrolo’s SF masterpiece Mecanoscrit del segon origen from Catalan into English (I’m celebrating that Wesleyan University Press has accepted publishing it!). Both writers have something in common, despite their very different positioning at an international level and in terms of their success: they hardly exist for academia and, thus, being dead, they depend now on their readers for their survival into literary immortality. In very different circumstances. The size and the depth of the Aubrey-Maturin cult is simply staggering. It’s what we call in Spanish ‘un secreto a voces’, which sounds more
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