RSS 1.0Twentieth Century and Contemporary, including World Literatures
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Ghostly Authorities and the British Popular Press
(Manchester University Press, 2014)folk tales to political pamphlets, linked to an investigation into the later impact of a Gothicized Renaissance. The manifold resonances between the chapters in terms of primary textual references to Renaissance texts as ... -
Ulysses, Blindness, and Accessible Modernism
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The figure of the refugee in Hassan Blasim’s “The Reality and the Record”
(SAGE Publications, 2017-06-07)This article considers Hassan Blasim’s short story, “The Reality and the Record”. It argues that Blasim’s asylum seeker should be read as a powerful challenge to extant responses to the ever-growing global refugee crisis: ... -
'Where do these lines go? Poetry in Beirut'
(2016-10-01)This essay reflects on my experience performing at a poetry festival in Beirut, incorporating on globalisation, translingualism, colonialism and the status of poetry in the midst of crisis. -
The Principles of Song: On Denise Riley
(Banff Centre Press, 2015-01-15)With over forty contributors, Toward. Some. Air. is an invaluable resource for readers, students, teachers and writers. -
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
(Oxford University Press, 2013-09-26)'There is one thing to be said for contemporary poetry that can't be said of any other', T. S. Eliot averred in a piece offilm footage, ... The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry is a ... -
Funeral Elegy
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Feminism and Futurity: Revisiting Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)This article considers the question of feminist futurity through Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). While dominant readings of this novel have focused on its relationship to the feminist utopian genre and ... -
‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Modernism: “What’s wrong with the other moderns is the lack of purpose in their infernal books”'
(Asls, 2015-09-15)Examining his works within the social, political, and literary developments of his time, this volume demonstrates Gibbon's continuing relevance both in Scotland and internationally. -
Oulibertinage: Play and Pudeur in Anne Garréta's Pas un jour
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018-03-01)Since the turn of the century, women-authored sexual confessions have proliferated. However, these succès de scandale have been paralleled by anxiety regarding self-exposure and a sense that, for women writers, the ‘taboo’ ... -
The ‘gal pal epidemic’
(2016-04-02)
