Tag: literature

The power of literature: ‘Colette and the Incest Taboo’

19 February 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Carol Mastrangelo Bové, author of Colette and the Incest Taboo. Julia Kristeva’s book Colette sparked my interest in an author I had not understood when I first read her decades ago. So literary critics may well influence our tastes and also our values, I...

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Café reflections: gothic and the Nordic countries

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Robert William, author of Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature Sipping coffee in a street café in Copenhagen on a radiant August day, I found myself surrounded by laughter, the hum of people enjoying the city and tourists buzzing with joy. The...

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Representing Appalachia

24 October 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Sarah Robertson, author of Gothic Appalachian Literature ‘Backwards’. ‘Hillbillies’. ‘Trash’. You’ve heard them all before: the derogatory labels commonly bandied about when discussing Appalachia. In 2016, Appalachia became the nation’s boogey monster once again, an othering spearheaded by two figures on the political right....

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The protest, experimental poetics of African American and Aboriginal Australian poets

14 September 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Ameer Chasib Furaih, author of Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s When I arrived in Australia in late 2014, my original intention was to research African American poetry. However, I soon broadened the scope of my project...

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The urge to illustrate Shakespeare

25 August 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Jean-Louis CLARET, author of Picturing Shakespeare Q1. What urges you to illustrate Shakespeare? It is difficult to determine this precisely, but I feel that I need to show, with shapes and colours, parts of my personal experience with Shakespeare’s dramatic world. It results from an...

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Key issues in translation theory for practicing translators

22 July 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by B.J. Woodstein, author of Translation Theory for Literary Translators Q: B.J., why did you choose to write this book? A: As a teacher, I found that my students were scared of theory or thought it was irrelevant. I wanted to show that it wasn’t as...

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Recovering an eighteenth-century gem

14 July 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Melvyn New, author of Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775) I first became interested in The Correspondents as the result of an essay in The Shandean, by Peter de Voogd, outlining the work’s several...

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Some thoughts on the writing of Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra

11 December 2023 Guest Post

I came to  this book very much towards the end of my academic career. For many years, I  had written on  the Indian diaspora with, where possible, an emphasis on the old sugar plantation diaspora that began with the movement of coolies to work as indentured labourers in the nineteenth...

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Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the twenty-first century by Brenda Ayres

3 December 2023 Guest Post

In 2017, I wrote Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, identifying the disparities between 18 major biographies that reinvented Mary Wollstonecraft with each retelling of her life. In that book, I alluded to 16 other biographies as well with their diverging views on Wollstonecraft. To date, there are...

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Reflections on Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by way of an imagined interview by Vijay Mishra

6 November 2023 Author Interviews

1.Why this book? Only 400,000 people worldwide speak Fiji Hindi. Of that number, less than half read the Devanagari (Sanskrit) script in which this language is written. There was then a challenge: How to expose this language to a wider readership? I chose to engage with the question of exposure...

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