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And the winner of this year's #BookerPrize is ... #DavidSzalay 's "Flesh"!
Here it is, in the #flesh on our shelves - getting ready to be checked out by you soon. Pre-order it by email in our online library catalogue: s.gwdg.de/9c3D3t

#BookerPrize2025 @thebookerprizes.com #EnglishLiterature
David Szalay's book "Flesh" on a shelf filled with new books
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Today we are at the AG FID meetup in Marburg! This time with a new, more interactive workshop-based approach 💪

We are very impressed by the architecture of Marburg University Library!

#FID #Fachinformationsdienste
A view into the atrium The staircase in the library, with golden decor at the walls A view into the atrium from above
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"The International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature", ed.s Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. Davis, asks what is distinctly #Scottish in #ChildrensLiterature by #ScottishWriters - from #PeterPan or #TreasureIsland to recent works, incl plays & poetry 🏴
#ScottishLiterature #LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "The International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature" in front of a yellow-leafed tree
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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2 new arrivals on #ChildrensLiterature 📚🧸
Don K. Philpot's 2017 study looks at focalization in 10 middle-grade children's novels, written from 1964-2014, told in third-person style.

#narratology #LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Character Focalization in Children's Novels" in front of a yellow-leafed tree
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

#VictorianStudies
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Opposite sides of the globe, but united in spookiness - Rosemary Gray's collection of #Scottish #ghoststories (Scott, Stevenson, Oliphant & more) delivers Scottish ghosties & ghoulies, while the #NewZealandStudies anthology "Gothic NZ" explores "the darker side of Kiwi culture"

#ScottishLiterature
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Huh - what do I see in the corner of my eye - is it - an old volume...? No - a pretty recent one (2018): this #LiteraryStudies study by Patrick J. Murphy connects the dots between the #MedievalStudies of #MRJames & his classic "antiquarian" #ghoststories 👻

#Halloween
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It's less than a week till #Halloween !
Get in the spooky mood with these reading ideas for the gothest of seasons - starting with #Gothic by @theprofrog.bsky.social introducing the reader to the Gothic #aesthetics from architecture to #folklore & #monsters & concepts from around the globe
The book "Gothic - an illustrated history" by Roger Luckhurst, surrounded by graphics of a raven and a bat
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It's #TagderBibliotheken / #Library Day in Germany!
"Unpacking the Personal Library", ed. by Jason Camlot & JA Weingarten, looks at #libraries both public & personal from Alexandria & the Middle Ages to radical protest libraries or those of #VirginiaWoolf

#LibSky #LibraryStudies
A view of the shelves in the reading rooms of SUB Göttingen Holding the essay collection "Unpacking the Personal Library" in the reading rooms of SUB Göttingen
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Shawn-Naphtali Sobers's 2023 book "Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative" walks us readers through a Black British family home, examining the lives, stuff & stories of Black Brits post-1950 through the lens of #MaterialCulture & various media in #CulturalHistory

#BlackHistoryMonth
Holding Shawn-Naphtali Sobers's book "Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative" in front of a wall overgrown with autumnal leaves and vines
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Fighting American slaveowners in the Anglo-American War of 1812, the "Black Redcoats" were a regiment of enslaved Black people who escaped slavery to fight under the British flag, Matthew Taylor writes @blackredcoats.bsky.social

#MilitaryHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #BritishHistory
Holding the book "Black Redcoats" in front of a wall overgrown with autumnal leaves and vines
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"Billy Waters Is Dancing", a #biography by @drmarylshannon.bsky.social retraces the forgotten story of Black Regency sailor, who became London's most celebrated street performer & finds him & other figures of Black Regency Britain in #popularculture

#BlackHistory #CulturalStudies #BlackHistoryMonth
Holding the book "Billy Waters is dancing" in front of a wall overgrown with autumnal leaves and vines
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Mariam Muwanga's 2025 study "Modeling the African Diaspora" contributes to the field of critical race theory, combining it with #narratology & #diasporastudies to highlight 3 new concepts in novels by Black British writers #SamSelvon #BernadineEvaristo #AndreaLevy #ZadieSmith & #DiranAdebayo
Holding Mariam Muwanga's book "Modeling the African Diaspora" in front of a wall overgrown with autumnal leaves and vines
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Did you know that the UK celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth in October?
Check out the replies of this thread to find 4 new books on #BlackHistory & #LiteraryStudies & #BlackCulture in the UK, new to our collection!

#BritishHistory
Holding a stack of 4 books in front of a wall overgrown with vines and leaves in autumnal shades of red, yellow and green. Titles of the books in the replies
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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What a magical day! ✨ #OTD we celebrate 75 years since the 1st publication of #CSLewis 's "Chronicles of #Narnia ". The 1st book of the series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was published on 16 October, 1950 🦁🧙👑❄️
Our collection offers a variety of texts on the realm of #Narnia75 ✨
A wooden art nouveau wardrobe, in front of which a white chair, on which rests a stack of 11 books on Narnia, including an omnibus volume of "The Chronicles of Narnia" and several secondary resources. The picture shows a glimmer of golden lights, looking as if they come out of the wardrobe, that give the image a magical quality
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today is, however, not only #MonsterMonday but also Margaret #Thatcher was #BOTD 100 years ago
Find arguments against #Thatcherism in the #BritishStudies & #PoliticalStudies literature in our collection
2 bookstacks of books on Margaret Thatcher on a bookshelf
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Today is #MonsterMonday (which in the halloweenest of months needs extra attention). Here is a new study by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter on the rise & fall of black-and-white 1950s-70s popular #horror mags or #MonsterMagazines

link: s.gwdg.de/en3TQ1

#PopCulture #PulpFiction #MarvelComics

Holding the book "The Great Monster Magazines" by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter in front of a small decorative body of water at SUB Göttingen
October 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"It's time"...to say good-bye to Heidelberg! A great #GASt2025 conference is coming to a close after four days of inspiring presentations and discussions. Safe travels home! 🐨 #AustralianStudies
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Enjoying the last coffee break of the day at #GASt2025. Lots of great talks today (about Australian fiction, Swiss entomologists & vampires)!
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Day 3 of #GASt2025 started off with an online conversation with lawyer and film-maker Larissa Behrendt about her documentary 'One Mind, One Heart' which was shown yesterday evening.
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Day 2 of #GASt2025 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Check out the programme here: australienstudien.org/de/gast-okt-... #AustralianStudies
October 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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It's time! Follow the kangaroo to the 2nd floor of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. Coming up: The opening keynote by Les Malezer. #GASt2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This study by Donna Varga looks at the interplay of colonialism & monstrous Othering of animals in #ChildrensLiterature & culture, considering a variety of canonical & non-canonical animal characters

#PostColonialStudies #CulturalStudies #monsters #animalstudies #nonhumanstudies #ecocriticism
The book "The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys" on a tree trunk
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Today it's 2 new #NonHumanStudies / #animalstudies books with wolves on the cover! 🐺🐺
Editors Kenneth K. Brandt & @karinmd.bsky.social present essays on the nonhuman in literary naturalism, w #AmericanLiterature authors #JackLondon #Hemingway #WillaCather #EdithWharton & more

#ecocriticism
The book "The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism" on a large tree trunk
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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American author & public intellectual #GoreVidal was #BOTD 100 years ago!
You can find a large array of Vidal's own texts as well as secondary literature on topics such as #AmericanPolitics , sexuality & gender or #AmericanHistory in his works.

#OTD #AmericanLiterature #GenderStudies #QueerWriters
2 high piles of books on & by Gore Vidal, pictured in SUB Göttingen library
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM