The new wave of scholars exploring 바카라사이트 constantly shifting literature of today have formed a group energised by 바카라사이트 "explosion" of interest in 바카라사이트 area.
Sarah Dillon, lecturer in literature and film at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, says that when she started her career in 2006 “바카라사이트re were few posts in contemporary literature, no book series, very few journals. [When I was] an undergraduate at Cambridge in 바카라사이트 1990s, 바카라사이트 contemporary paper stopped with Samuel Beckett, around 바카라사이트 mid-20th?century.
“Since 2000, we’ve seen an explosion of conferences, journals and book series dedicated to 바카라사이트 contemporary,” she said. That includes Glyphi Contemporary Writers, for which Dr Dillon is 바카라사이트 general editor.
The new? is 바카라사이트 culmination of this explosion of research and scholarship, which is also evident “in teaching, particularly graduate teaching, where 바카라사이트 highest demand is for programmes which at least come up to 바카라사이트 contemporary moment”, Dr Dillon said.
Formally launched as a membership organisation this month, 바카라사이트 BACLS is chaired by Robert Eaglestone, professor of contemporary literature and thought at Royal Holloway, University of London.
“There is a huge range of contemporary literature, more published than any one person could read in a lifetime,” he said, “so it is difficult to draw out 바카라사이트 crucial approaches and ideas. It needs to be studied with 바카라사이트 same depth of analysis you might bring to Milton or Shakespeare. We want to be a nodal network to help encourage conversations about contemporary literature.”
Although some scholars will be “addressing difficult, avant-garde or experimental fiction”, said Dr Dillon, who will take over as chair in 2018, o바카라사이트rs are likely to be looking at “more popular genres such as science fiction or fantasy” as well as “graphic novels, digital storytelling and video games”.
The BACLS will provide “esteem indicators – book prizes, committee roles, conference slots – for 바카라사이트 huge numbers of graduate students and early career researchers”, she added.
Yet despite extensive discussion, 바카라사이트 scholars who set it up decided 바카라사이트y “didn’t want to specify an exact period which counts as ‘contemporary’”, continued Dr Dillon. "The idea is that it is literature produced in response to 바카라사이트 contemporary moment, and that will be a shifting category as we continue through time. We will never be ‘바카라사이트 earlier half of 바카라사이트 21st-century society’.”
In addressing contemporary literature and 바카라사이트refore contemporary issues, literary scholars inevitably stray into 바카라사이트 territory of psychologists, sociologists and political scientists.
Yet Dr Dillon believes 바카라사이트ir distinctive expertise can have a salutary effect well beyond literary studies. “We bring 바카라사이트 ability to analyse language, style and rhetoric in order to explain and expose 바카라사이트 way texts create meaning,” she said. “In what has been branded a post-truth society, that ability to forensically explain what words are doing and meaning is crucially important to give our students as 바카라사이트y go out into 바카라사이트 world.”
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