For me, two of his Leyendas stand out more than others. The first is “La cruz del diablo“. The story of a tyrannical nobleman turned apparition, haunting nearby villages beyond his death. Reflecting a deep disdain for the long-lasting feudal order of Spanish society. The second is “El beso“. A narrative about the guerilla fight of Spanish statues against the Napoleonic invaders of 1808. A period that left deep scars in the Spanish psyche for generations.
From the angle of romance horror, Bécquer is somewhat of a unicorn. As the Spanish lit of the 19th century is not widely known for it’s horror narratives Bécquer stands out and fits in at the same time. Like many of his contemporaries, his writings reflect the deep catholic milieu of 19th century Spain but unlike other writers he actually manages to escape the fully catholicized fantastic narratives of providence and an overarching sense of divine control
For today's installment of romance horror, I would like to present to you a Spanish writer who might be known to some of you, but who from my impression has eluded a wider audience in the horror community. I am of course speaking about Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Bécquer might be interesting for various reasons, not least of them, is the darkness he experienced throughout his life, leading to a failed career in the arts and being unknown in his lifetime.
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Well this just makes my #scicomm heart very happy 
it’s about time!!
#OpenAccess #humanities #cambridge #publishing #peerreview
https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/public-humanities-fast-tracked-research/
Hello everyone! This is my fifth short post about East Slavic Cyrillic: https://mariikas.palkas.ru/5
Feel free to ask questions if something needs more explanation!
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Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship”.
Worth taking the time to read and re-read.
Insight after insight, page after page.
About Germany ~1933 - ~1963 but speaking to us now, decades later.
Via @interfluidity and @resnikoff
Still not sure I understand how Plant Humanities is formulating itself and how I feel about it. However, I do feel there's room for more interdisciplinary work between Botany and the Humanities, for sure.
New York Botanical Garden
2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Poisons & Remedies
April 16, 2025
12 to 1:30 p.m. | Online
https://www.nybg.org/event/2025-plant-humanities-conversations-poisons-remedies/ @plantscience @academicchatter #Botany #Humanities
NY Times: DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at #Humanities Endowment https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/arts/trump-doge-federal-cuts-humanities.html #NEH & Statement From National Humanities Alliance https://nhalliance.org/nha-statement-neh-doge-threats/
@hysteretic Partly all the time wasted on applying for grants, partly the fact that in the #Humanities you don't need a research group with a PI to get a paper written and published. That kind of organisation is very low on the outcome parameter *research per money* in the Humanities. I don't need time on the Webb telescope, or a lab of my own, or three PhD students, or a technician to get a paper into Praehistorische Zeitschrift.
University departments are supposed to produce research, so they compete for big grants. In natural #science, this is unproblematic because you can't really produce top-level research without big grants.
In the #Humanities however, you can. So the system of incentives is counterproductive here. The fastest way to get top-level publications out of a humanities scholar is not to make her compete for big grants. It's just to give her 75% research time. 1/2
#callforpapers
International Conference "Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination"
26 - 27 February 2026 at the Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD), University of Tübingen, Germany
Deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2025.
Historians Defend the Smithsonian.
https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/
Job - Alert 
Max Planck Postdoc Program (Postdoctoral positions at Max Planck Institutes)
Deadline: 2025-05-13
Location: Germany, positions is individually determined based on the chosen institute
“There is so much empty talk, in a language consisting primarily of cryptic abbreviations, so much form-filling, so much make-work: and all to hide a fundamental absence of mission, to keep everyone just busy enough not to have to face up to the total collapse that is obviously on its way. “ https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/can-the-humanities-survive #humanities #mood
I've raised two children and achieved chaired professor qualification. But honestly, I feel like I'm still in school, I've finished all my assignments, and I'm waiting for the teacher to tell me what to do next. Only there is no teacher. And there is no school.
Camillo's “Un Corpo“ is a story about the horrors of male mania over a young woman, the fear of medical progress in the 19th century, and the Bohemian lifestyle. Full of uncanny coincidences, 19th-century aesthetics and written in a superbly executed realist style. Meanwhile, Arrigos „L'alfier nero“ is a macabre tale of racism, black revenge, colonial guilt and the Haitian Revolution.
Influenced by their friends, such as Tarchetti and the dark romantics from Germany and the US, they each wrote a several uncanny short stories that would have merited a literary career all on their own. Sadly, neither Camillo nor Arrigo pursued their literary endeavors, and we are left with the few dark and masterly written narratives.
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