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2026 marks 90 years since the publication of William Faulkner’s masterwork, Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Widely considered the greatest Southern novel of all time and among the most influential literary works of the twentieth century, the ninth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium celebrates Absalom, Absalom!’s incalculable influence upon global literature.
"The problem of geoaesthetics is explored in Tangential Terrains in meticulous individual analyses and close readings. Heine combines an extremely high theoretical level with precise philological work. If there is to be anything like an inorganic turn in literary studies in the near future, this book will play a major role in it." —Wolfgang Hottner, associate professor in comparative literature, University of Bergen, Norway, author of Crystallizations: Aesthetics and Poetics of the Inorganic in the late 18th Century
2025 Best Single Author Book, Midwest Popular Culture Association 2025 Longlist, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association "Grady does a very good job detailing the trajectory of the comic Western genre...Unlike some books from higher education sources Grady does not go overboard with acadamese. The book remains readable and entertaining and educational." - Daily Cartoonist
"Lori A. Ringhand's illuminating civic history text We the Voters combines constitutional analyses with accessible examinations of American democracy." —Foreword Reviews "We The Voters is a superb introduction to the complexities of the contemporary American system of representative government, particularly with regard to elections, introducing it in an extraordinarily accessible way. I don't know of any book that in so few pages covers so many important topics so well." —Sanford Levinson, author (with Cynthia Levinson) of Fault Lines in the Constitution
Sorbonne Université and Université Gustave Eiffel are pleased to announce a one-day symposium focusing on contemporary US/UK political theatres, to be held on Friday 6 November 2026. Abstract submission deadline is 15 May 2026.
Maps in American Literature: 15th-21st c. ENS de Lyon, France. Keynote speakers: Martin Brückner (U. Delaware), Sarah Sense (independent artist), Caroline Wigginton (U. Mississippi)
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