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A Journal of Literary and Critical Studies | A postgraduate-run peer-reviewed online journal @QMULsed | Open to submissions for the inaugural 2024 Issue
Queen Mary University, London
Joined October 2023
We're pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of POLTERGEIST, Queen Mary University's new postgraduate-run journal for literary and critical studies. In this issue, our contributors approach the topic of FAILINGS. You can find it here:
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RT @jenny_kenyon: my first article on Hamilton is here, like a ghoul set free from the cupboard of my imagination. on failures of speech an…
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The final deadline ends today! Send us your abstracts on failings:
*Deadline extension* 🎵On the third day of Christmas, Poltergeist gave to me another two weeks to submit an abstract.🎵 🎄New deadline: 15th December!🎄 Thank you to those who have already submitted, we'll be in touch soon after the new deadline!
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Today's quotation comes from T. S. Eliot: Eliot's post-WW1 poem finishes with an elegy for a disintegrating world. The mantra ends, not in a grand tragic apocalypse, but in a bathetic failure to even leave an impact. What changes in this shift from grand to whimpering failure?
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One week left to send us your abstracts! Extended deadline: December 15th
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Today's quotation comes from June Jordan: Jordan's poem on inequality and ecological/social collapse stops to confront its own doomed failure, its spent energy. Yet, her work shows how confrontation and outrage with failure can inspire collective action beyond the individual.
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*Deadline extension* 🎵On the third day of Christmas, Poltergeist gave to me another two weeks to submit an abstract.🎵 🎄New deadline: 15th December!🎄 Thank you to those who have already submitted, we'll be in touch soon after the new deadline!
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Deadline for abstracts is the end of tomorrow, we're excited to read your submissions!
CALL FOR PAPERS: We're pleased to announce the CFP for the inaugural issue of @QMULsed's new journal, on the theme of FAILINGS. Send us your abstracts - deadline 1st December. Full details below:
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Today's quotations come from Sontag: For Sontag, Camp is defined by its mode of failure - a paradoxical good to be found in what is awful because of, not in spite of, its very awfulness. How can Camp help us understand 'good' forms of failure? Can we find fun in failing?
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Today's quotation comes from Dickinson: Not finding poetic success in her lifetime, Dickinson finds a silver lining in protracted failure. With each failure, the comprehension of success grows. How can failures help us 'comprehend' our successes?
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One week left to send us your abstracts on FAILINGS! We're excited to read your submissions. 'I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.' - Douglas Adams
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Today's quotation comes from Beckett. Beckett's work sits within an atmosphere of failure: while the first part of this quotation is often taken by motivational speakers, the second part is much bleaker. Beckett asks - how can one fail better or worse? Can you fail at failing?
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Today's quotation comes from Professor Saidiya Hartman. How do failures shape our stories? How do we balance our fears of failure with our yearnings? And finally, how can thinking on failure change the language we use to speak about generational trauma?
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Just two weeks left until our deadline for abstracts - send us your work on the topic of FAILINGS. We're excited to read your submissions!
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