{"id":5319,"date":"2024-06-10T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2024-06-10T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:19:21","slug":"k-saa-call-for-inputs-the-k-saa-public-commonplace-book-vol-2-field-notes-on-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"K-SAA Call for Inputs: The K-SAA Public Commonplace Book Vol.2 \u2013 \u2018Field Notes on Freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The K-SAA Public Commonplace Book<\/em> Vol.2\u2013’Field Notes on Freedom’\u2014is now collecting observational snippets about literary travels and objects from your personal and reading notes. Revisit Vol.1 \u2018Readings, Reading Habits\u2019\u2014along with its interactive Star Chart visualization of collected entries\u2014here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The K-SAA Public Commonplace Book <\/em><\/strong>of Romantic Readers <\/em>is a public engagement digital project that seeks to map the breadth of connections between global Romantic-era writers and the readers of today. The inaugural volume explores the theme \u2018Reading(s)\/reading habits\u2019 to chart all the \u2018what\u2019 and \u2018who\u2019 surrounding acts of reading across two centuries. What was read\u2014by whom\u2014where\u2014to what end and outcome? Recontextualized in an interactive format, these crowd-sourced records of reading(s) from around and of the world reveal networks of ideas and (un)common feelings that continue to transcend the seeming constraints of time and space.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The details + submission page can be found here<\/a>: https:\/\/www.k-saa.org\/blog\/ksaa-public-commonplace-book-vol2-call<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatively, post on X\/Instragram using the hashtag #ksaacmpbook2<\/strong>, or email ksaacomm@gmail.com<\/a> for your entries to be included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelling around Switzerland in 1816, Byron read in the old walls of Chillon a story of captivity. Records of travels and poetic musings such as these reflect the power of the world-reader\u2014as visitor, author or fictive prisoner\u2014to interpret the world\u2019s happenings both new and old, as well as the narratives upheld and embedded in all kinds of historical remnants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Vol.2 <\/em>of the K-SAA Public Commonplace Book<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, consider forms of world-reading, preferably in loose relation to freedom. Let us curate brief records of literary travels\u2014the wanderings, metaphorical trails-following, fateful chancings-upon\u2014in life, book pages and the archives\u2014of you, 19th-century authors or fictional characters. Submit a sentence or a quotation for our collective field notes on freedom: taken from previous visits to museums, historic houses, archives or other sites of interest; objects observed (e.g. as crystallized historical events), socio-historical landscape surveyed; place & thought pertaining to freedom as a concept, or re-definitions. Collected responses will be published and visualized in the second volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is striking, noteworthy or significant about the historical objects you have surveyed? In what ways do they crystalize, for you or for the others, ideas of freedom and forms of liberties\u2014or the lack thereof? What narrative(s) do you think is (are) being written or rewritten? What authorial volition reflected<\/strong>? . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your contribution can be in the form of 1) quotations collected from your readings or 2) short descriptions or records in your own words (\u201cI stumbled across this [interesting object] which looks\/is\/belonged to. . .\u201c). Get creative! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also consider these quotations from Byron\u2019s writings as examples of possible submissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are seven pillars of Gothic mould,<\/em>\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Chillon’s dungeons deep and old,<\/em>\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are seven columns, massy and grey,<\/em>\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dim with a dull imprison’d ray,<\/em>\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sunbeam which hath lost its way . . .\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The Prisoner of Chillon<\/em> (1816), Lord Byron <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have traversed all Rousseau\u2019s ground with the Heloise before me, and am struck to a degree that I cannot express with the force and accuracy of his descriptions, and the beauty of their reality. Meillerie, Clarens, and Vevay, and the Chateau of Chillon, are places of which I shall say little, because all I could say must fall short of the impressions they stamp.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Letter CCXLII (1816), Letters and Journals of Lord Byron<\/em> vol.3, p.8. Full digitalized copy on Google Books here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The K-SAA Public Commonplace Book Vol.2\u2013’Field Notes on Freedom’\u2014is now collecting observational snippets about literary travels and objects from your personal and reading notes. Revisit Vol.1 \u2018Readings, Reading Habits\u2019\u2014along with its interactive… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}