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Beci Carver

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Lecturer, & author of Granular Modernism (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (forthcoming from OUP, 2025). Email: [email protected].

Joined August 2015
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Book published today & my 1st email of the day 🩷🩵
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Lovable hell
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I’m in Oxford for the next few days with nothing to do but read and write ❤️
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A special issue of Critical Quarterly on 'Gillian Rose & Literature' is coming out soon, edited by Louis Klee and me––and featuring a previously unpublished late lecture by Rose @CritQuarterly As a teaser, our editors' intro has been published in advance: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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What if your eyes were breasts?
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What falls away is always (Roethke) ❤️
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It’s a sort of second bloom this getting ready for death isn’t it
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Stuffing Pearl into an overpacked bag because I want to reread it so much and urgently
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(Today was frittered away on champagne drinking, don’t tell anyone)
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Hahahahahaha also 🤮 🤮 🤮
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Jacqueline Rose on her Jewishness observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Winnicott’s dedication in Playing and Reality 🥰😍
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Just finished a longish essay; 1st word: ‘bimbo’, last word: ‘genius’ 🤩💪
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death kit@deathdashkitOct 26
DEATH KIT 5 OUT NOW feat. @toomuchistrue, nate lippens, @hangsawoman, interviews with writer @indigojackal and eng prof @becimay, PLUS book and film reviews by @conorhultman, @resurrecti0ns, @hering_david & MORE..! BUY IN PRINT & DIGITAL 🌸 death-kit.com 🌸
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I’m in this new issue of #deathkit 🤩
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Hangovers are the opposite of Father Christmas in that you stop believing they exist until they happen 🥂😶‍🌫️
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‘but what was truly frightful was.. this gigantic, unapproachable regime, which hardly gives a hint of anything unsettling, and which is there continuously exerting its influence unquestioned, and which determines everything that eventually.. annihilates us’ (Weiss, aofr, vol 3)
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This is happening on Friday 🤩🤯🔥🥰
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This is happening on Friday 🤩🤯🔥🥰
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Dreamt last night I was in a car with Exeter’s vice chancellor and that she was boasting to me about how she had filled Exeter with the most glorious fake plastic trees, and that because I was drunk and heedless I said ‘but why the hell did you uproot all the real trees?’
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‘The masses of those who had no more to offer than their desperation swelled, and desperation was the most worthless of all superfluous things’ (Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance, III)
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