Influence: 50 Years On @InfluenceOxford
25 September 2023: a conference on literary influence at @magdalenoxford, to mark 50 years of The Anxiety of Influence. Registration NOW OPEN at link below. influenceoxford.wordpress.com Magdalen College, Oxford Joined February 2023-
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After the great success of 'Influence: 50 Years On', we are excited to be putting together a special issue of Textual Practice based on conference proceedings! Theme: literary influence 📙➡️📗 Guest editors: @LewisPRoberts, @jacobridley78, @roddyhj tandfonline.com/journals/rtpr20
Looking forward to the Influence conference @magdalenoxford today.
📅 Just one month left until 'Influence: 50 Years On'! We have an absolutely stellar lineup of panelists and keynotes—hope to see you @magdalenoxford on the 25th of September. Tickets and info are all at influenceoxford.wordpress.com
At beautiful @MagdalenCollege enjoying discussions of influence and the legacy of Harold Bloom’s big and influential book, 50 years old today! #AnxietyofInfluence @becimay @engfac
At @magdalenoxford for the conference @InfluenceOxford, on 50 years of Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence - a superb keynote to start the day from Adam Phillips on ‘Bloom’s Freud and Bloom’s Anxiety’. Very excited for the rest of the day!
🚨Call for Paper🚨 Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are looking for a further paper for the panel "Influence after Colonialism" to be presented on 25th September Abstracts to be sent to [email protected] by Friday 8th September.
📅 Just one month left until 'Influence: 50 Years On'! We have an absolutely stellar lineup of panelists and keynotes—hope to see you @magdalenoxford on the 25th of September. Tickets and info are all at influenceoxford.wordpress.com
📌 'Kenosis: Structures of Influence from Austen to Achebe', chair Prof Helen Small (Oxford) 📌 'Askesis: The Politics of Influence', chair Prof Peter de Bolla (Cambridge) Hard to imagine a more enticing lineup! Remember to register for the 25th Sept at influenceoxford.wordpress.com
and our other four panels are as already announced: 📌 'Clinamen: Poetic Misprision in the Long Eighteenth Century', chair Prof Fiona Stafford (Oxford) 📌 'Apophrades: Afterlives of Antiquity', chair Prof Colin Burrow (Oxford)
📚 We're incredibly happy to announce our full list of chairs for each of our panels: see below! 🧵
🦌 We're so grateful to be hosted by @magdalenoxford, where all of our convenors were undergraduates, and where literary influence has been working since 1458, from John Florio to Seamus Heaney. Come and see the beautiful grounds on 25 Sept—more at influenceoxford.wordpress.com
An idea of influence from Jorie Graham: the 'communal subjectivity' of sensation between Whitman and Stevens🌾 Watch her lecture here youtube.com/watch?v=VjjCfS…, and get tickets to 'Influence: 50 Years On' at influenceoxford.wordpress.com - we'll be tracing similar lines on 25 Sept!
🏰 Marie de France on... apophrades? See our panel of the same name (pinned tweet), and get tickets to 'Influence: 50 Years On' @magdalenoxford, 23 Sept 2023 - more at influenceoxford.wordpress.com 📷 'Prologue' to Marie de France, 'Lais', from BL, MS Harley 978
⏰ Reminder to get your tickets for 'Influence: 50 Years On', featuring keynotes by Adam Phillips and Anahid Nersessian! 📌 @magdalenoxford, 25 Sept 2023 📌 Tickets and registration here: influenceoxford.wordpress.com
We're so proud that 'Influence: 50 Years On' is supported by @BARS_official, whose promotion of Romantic studies is central to so much of the research we'll be presenting in September.🍂 Our panels 'Clinamen' and 'Apophrades' will be of interest for Romanticists—see our profile!
Announcing our third speaker on this brilliant panel 'Apophrades: Afterlives of Antiquity' (note the name change!) ⬇️ Prof Agatha Bielik-Robson (Nottingham): 'Jacob's Agon: The Jewish Matrix of Bloom's Literary Influence' Hope to see you there!
2: 'Apophrades: Classical Afterlives', chaired by Prof Colin Burrow (Oxford) With papers by @RebeccaMenmuir (QMUL) and Ben Nagy (Institute of Polish Language), @Blakefart (Cambridge) - and third speaker TBA! Ooh - on (maybe) Ovid's 'Nux', Blake, and the Belvedere Torso
Very excited (or should I be anxious?) for this conference on 50 years of Bloom's Anxiety of Influence - and reopening a can of worms with @rantyben on the Nux ascribed to Ovid. Do come along for a range of fab papers at Magdalen, Oxford: influenceoxford.wordpress.com
2: 'Apophrades: Classical Afterlives', chaired by Prof Colin Burrow (Oxford) With papers by @RebeccaMenmuir (QMUL) and Ben Nagy (Institute of Polish Language), @Blakefart (Cambridge) - and third speaker TBA! Ooh - on (maybe) Ovid's 'Nux', Blake, and the Belvedere Torso
Check out our brilliant lineup of panelists below -- and nab tickets to 'Influence: 50 Years On' @magdalenoxford on the 25th of September at influenceoxford.wordpress.com 🏛️⏳📚
And now announcing our brilliant panels for Influence: 50 Years On! Thread below 🧵
6: 'Tessera: Philology, Paratexts, Editing', chair TBA With papers by Ross Wilson (Cambridge), @shelleyscholar (Oxford), and @flynnoallott (Oxford) on prefaces, editing Shelley, and the seventeenth-century religious dialogue
5: 'Askesis: The Politics of Influence', chaired by Prof Peter de Bolla (Cambridge) With papers by @becimay (Exeter), @_rob_scott (Cambridge), and Victoria Baena (Cambridge) on Raymond Williams, Bloom himself, and translation studies
And now announcing our brilliant panels for Influence: 50 Years On! Thread below 🧵
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