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This conference will take place at Queen Mary, University of London, and the London Review Bookshop. Sixteen distinguished speakers will each give talks of 30 minutes, and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion. The conference is sponsored in part by the London Review Bookshop. For more information and to book, please go to: …See More

This conference will take place at Queen Mary, University of London, and the London Review Bookshop. Sixteen distinguished speakers will each give talks of 30 minutes, and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion. The conference is sponsored in part by the London Review Bookshop. For more information and to book, please go to: …See More

DJUNA BECKETT SAMUEL BARNES Robert Kiely, Birkbeck: ‘Effing the ineffable: Barnes and Beckett’ There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. — Djuna Barnes Beckett and Barnes were known to each other. Both authors exhibit similar concerns in Watt (written during WW2) and Nightwood (1936): concerns about ‘effing the ineffable’, animality, lowness, and madness. Why are such similar techniques employed? These parallels are shared despite the almost polar-opposition between the…See More

DJUNA BECKETT SAMUEL BARNES Robert Kiely, Birkbeck: ‘Effing the ineffable: Barnes and Beckett’ There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. — Djuna Barnes Beckett and Barnes were known to each other. Both authors exhibit similar concerns in Watt (written during WW2) and Nightwood (1936): concerns about ‘effing the ineffable’, animality, lowness, and madness. Why are such similar techniques employed? These parallels are shared despite the almost polar-opposition between the…See More

Does anyone have any experience of the different arts/humanities way of operating across the US and the UK? Beyond the fact that US include the additional two years at the beginning of taught programmes, has anyone witnessed first hand things like i) teaching methods, ii) length/breadth of theses, iii) funding & post-doctoral awards? I ask because I am interested to find out about any kind of exchange programme whereby British/American graduate students could swap and learn about the…See More

Beckett and the BrainLike much modernist writing, Beckett's work has often been read as anexperiment in consciousness. Explorations of the shape of the relationshipbetween subjectivity, language and the body remain a mainstay of much Beckettcriticism, while the more popular cultural sense of Beckett is still resolutelyconvinced of the work's probing of the human condition. More recently, archivalsupport for Beckett's knowledge and use of neurological, psychological andpsychoanalytic material,…See More

Beckett and the BrainLike much modernist writing, Beckett's work has often been read as anexperiment in consciousness. Explorations of the shape of the relationshipbetween subjectivity, language and the body remain a mainstay of much Beckettcriticism, while the more popular cultural sense of Beckett is still resolutelyconvinced of the work's probing of the human condition. More recently, archivalsupport for Beckett's knowledge and use of neurological, psychological andpsychoanalytic material,…See More

Hosted by Birkbeck College, an open-to-all MA/MPhil/PhD reading group. We meet monthly to discuss key texts, listen to invited speakers, and learn from each others' work.

Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, this seminar is devoted to reading and discussing the works of Djuna Barnes (1892–1982). We meet monthly during term-time. All welcome.See More