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We're in Oxford today celebrating 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk', the two-part MLO Special Collection and @VoltaireOxford book published in honour of Nicholas Cronk. @Voltairiste @drthomaswynn @OxUniEnl@magdalenoxford@OxHumanities🥳
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📢Calling librarians! Come and join Trailblazers with @LancasterUniLib@LivUniLibrary@TheLibraryUoS to combine #OA publication with author masterclasses and support the next generation of ECRs. Contact a.welsby@liverpool.ac.uk to join Trailblazers, or visit the LUP blog for more information bit.ly/Trailblazers-blog.
'“Let me go back and recreate what I don’t know”: Locating Trans-national Memory Work in Contemporary Narrative.' Read @efbond's case study of three novels with authors of heritage from the Horn of Africa #OA on MLO: bit.ly/2WLZd7s@OxfordModLangs@StHughsCollege
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October is our birthday month (we're 125 this year in case you missed it!) and to celebrate we are giving away a Liverpool University Press book of your choice! To enter, sign up to our mailing list (bit.ly/SignUpLUP) and reply to this tweet with your chosen book. #LUP125
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Several AW24 LUP bookcovers on a white background with the LUP125 logo overlayed.
'MLO is uniquely well positioned to exercise ground-breaking impact in its field.' Powerful words from @AnnaMKlobucka @UMassD on the transformative possibilities of MLO. Find out more online: modernlanguagesopen.org/abou…
This month, we're celebrating the the 10th Anniversary of Modern Languages Open!🎈To celebrate, read a Q&A with the section editors @BruetonJoanne @uol_paris, Luisa Coelho @OxfordModLangs & Nicola Bermingham @livunilanguages on the LUP blog: bit.ly/MLO-at-10-blog
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ALT A new publishing partnership between Liverpool University Press and the Society for French Studies. Journal covers in 3d for the journals French Studies and French Studies Bulletin, both in a warm cream with the title of the journal in a bright red classical font.
The background is a pale lilac line pattern with the covers and text overlaid. Society for French Studies logo with 'SFS' overlaid on overlapping pink, blue, and gold shapes. LUP 125th anniversary logo featuring an illustration of the Georgian townhouse that houses the press and the numbers '125' in shades of red.
ALT 'Ethnography and Modern Languages' on a pink rectangular banner panel above the authors names on a purple panel below with the MLO logo on the bottom right.
ALT A pink and purple banner with the article title 'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' plus the MLO logo on the bottom right.
'Anti-Gay, Sexist, Racist: Backwards Italy in British News Narratives' by Denise Filmer asks how far cultural myths influence the selection, narration and reception of Italian news reported in British newspapers: bit.ly/2pQoRJE @SimonaStorchiUK @Soc4ItalStudies
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Popular article: 'Genocide, Landscape, Beauty, Taboo: Reading Anselm Kiefer’s Der Morgenthau-Plan with Walther von der Vogelweide’s Lindenlied' by @PDaviesEdin @edinburghgerman @Edinburgh_LE Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/GenLandTab
ALT Genocide, Landscape, Beauty, Taboo: Reading Anselm Kiefer’s Der Morgenthau-Plan with Walther von der Vogelweide’s Lindenlied by Peter Davies
Popular article: 'A “Careful” Reading of Latin/x American Women’s Electronic Literature' by @TheaPitman focuses on communities of care in electronic literature created by Latin/x American self-identified women: bit.ly/TheaPitman@LCSLeeds @ResCultureLeeds @digitalgoodnet
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NEW ARTICLE: 🗣️Yairen Jerez Columbié @MaREIcentre discusses Science Fiction's contribution to the transfer of perspectives from the arts & humanities to areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, disaster discourses and environmental policies. Read it #OA: bit.ly/earthquake-relief-MLO
ALT '“Earthquake relief. Mexico. 2051”: escrituras geológicas en un relato especulativo de Malka Older' by Yairen Jerez Columbié