The 1st #NachtDerBibliotheken at @subugoe was a great success. Dorothea Schuller, head of our project #FIDAAC gave a talk on #vampires & #libraries in film, TV-shows and literature, asking: Do #librarians make fiction's best vampire-hunters? 
Camillo's “Un Corpo“ is a story about the horrors of male mania over a young woman, the fear of medical progress in the 19th century, and the Bohemian lifestyle. Full of uncanny coincidences, 19th-century aesthetics and written in a superbly executed realist style. Meanwhile, Arrigos „L'alfier nero“ is a macabre tale of racism, black revenge, colonial guilt and the Haitian Revolution.
Influenced by their friends, such as Tarchetti and the dark romantics from Germany and the US, they each wrote a several uncanny short stories that would have merited a literary career all on their own. Sadly, neither Camillo nor Arrigo pursued their literary endeavors, and we are left with the few dark and masterly written narratives.
Some of my favorite Italian horror authors of the 19th century are undoubtedly the brothers Boito. Both Camillo and Arrigo were prolific artists, the former an architect in his own right, the latter a composer and librettist (for, among others, Verdi). They both were part of the Italian anti-bourgeois artist movement the Scapigliati (imho the real punks of the 19th century).
When: Fri, 04/04/25, 7-7:45 pm
Where: SUB Göttingen, Central Library Building, Großer Seminarraum
Who: Dorothea Schuller
What: Academic Talk on libraries & fictional vampires from a #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #CulturalStudies p.o.v.
Language: German
Free Entry!
What's that flapping noise? Might it be ... #vampires in our library?!
On 04/04/25 for #NachtDerBibliotheken blood-thirsty creatures of the night will haunt SUB Göttingen in Dorothea Schuller's #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies talk on #libraries in #VampireFiction: #Dracula #Nosferatu #BtVS & more
For horror literature it is a real shame Fernando Pessoa and H.P. Lovecraft never met (being born and have died only two years apart). From a political standpoint it's probably for the best.
A question to the slavic studies community or s.o. in the know: Are there any authors besides Gogol who wrote ukranian horror or uncanny literature in the 19th century?
Bonus: Tips about other slavic countries (besides russia) are welcome aswell.
Muitos parabéns à Teresa Pinto Coelho, que foi galardoada com o Prémio Grémio Literário de 2024 pelo livro “Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez”! 
António Araújo considerou que a obra era “um trabalho de investigação provavelmente definitivo sobre a viagem de Eça ao Egipto para assistir à faustosa inauguração do Canal de Suez”.
It's getting spicy in the library! 
2 new books on the #history & culture of sexuality!
"The kinky Renaissance", edited by Gillian Knoll & Joseph Gamble, has 11 essays on English #RenaissanceLiterature & explores the kinky & BDSM aspects of #Shakespeare & co.
Find them all here in our catalogue:
Spectrality https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1851074112
Fragmentary M. https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1886451354
Troubling Late M. https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1819125262
Still M. https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=881113719
Stillness - an idea seemingly at odds with the ever-moving speed of #Modernism - is what Louise Hornby highlights in her unconventional reading of #ModernistLiterature & #VisualCulture such as #earlyphotography & #ModernistFilm
"Troubling Late #Modernism" by Doug Battersby analyses how #postwarnovel|s by #Nabokov, #SamuelBeckett, #ToniMorrison, #JohnBanville, #Coetzee & #EimearMcBride exploit & extend #modernist forms of narration, esp. at the opposition of #ethics & emotion
No capítulo “Visitando pastores com Ruy Duarte de Carvalho: uma perspectiva africana sobre o progresso, a natureza e o nosso futuro comum”, Alexandra Santos olha Ruy Duarte de Carvalho como um filósofo e homem de muitos talentos que colocou os seus dons ao serviço e defesa dos pastores nómadas do sul de #Angola.
Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://livros.fcsh.unl.pt/icnova/catalog/book/180
#RSEng intersecting with #psychology, #socialSciences, #dataScience, #digitalHumanities, #linguistics, #geography, #soundStudies, #computerVision, #literaryStudies, #smartwatches, hobbyist #photography and whatnot else this morning at #deRSE25 in a single talk.
adrienne brown's 2024 book looks at the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception & value of race in America - an #interdisciplinary study spanning real estate archives & literary works
Aaand @JariKakela is here!
#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Dar pīrāmūn-i rumān [...]" by Ahmad Kasravi
[Tihrān: Kitābḫāna Pāidār, [1960/1961]]
As the managing editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, I am proud to announce that if you've been looking forward to our new issue, you can find it open access at our new site: https://fafnir.journal.fi/ In 132 pages, our authors cover everything from new perspectives on classics like #Tolkien to #GameStudies and #technonaturalism, not to mention reviews of a wide range of academic books.
