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On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique (2024)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2024). On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique. In C. I. Armstrong, A. Paterson, & T. Walker (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

In mid-1936, while writing ‘Lapis Lazuli’, W. B. Yeats was finalising his controversial selections for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936). He was also pronouncing upon a significant generational trend towards ‘difficult’ poetry. As he suggested i... Read More about On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique.

The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety (2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety. Modernism/modernity, 31(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2024.a935443

The focus of this article is the world's first mathematical weather forecast by Lewis Fry Richardson, published in 1922. In a counter-archival and anti-historical move, Richardson's work argues for the "disaggregation" of the future from the past. Th... Read More about The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety.

Clickbait Modernism (2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). Clickbait Modernism. Textual Practice, 38(1), 84-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2287357

Over recent years, terms such as autofiction, postcritique and postfiction have been repurposed to designate a moment in the history of the novel, and in culture more broadly, to do with the distribution of narrative authority. These terms have also... Read More about Clickbait Modernism.