Browsing Twentieth Century and Contemporary, including World Literatures by Title
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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: ... -
Funeral Elegy
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The ‘gal pal epidemic’
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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 ... -
‘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. -
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 ... -
Modernism, The City and the 'Domestic Interior'
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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’ ... -
'Pleasure too often Repeated': Aldous Huxley's Modernity
(Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2013)Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach In an essay published in 1923, Aldous Huxley suggested that ‘of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto- intoxication, brews quietly up within its own ... -
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. -
'A Scot's Quair' and the times of labour
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Ulysses, Blindness, and Accessible Modernism
(2018-04-09)