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Abel Ferrara – A New Perspective on a Cult Auteur
Read more: Abel Ferrara – A New Perspective on a Cult Auteurby Florian Zappe Abel Ferrara is one of the most uncompromising and provocative filmmakers of his generation. From his early […]
An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…
5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham
by G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare Alley. Beyond that, the only thing I knew when I started researching William Lindsay Gresham was that his ex-wife, Joy…
Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash
by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson Perhaps the greatest challenge facing US institutions of higher education is the tension between an increasingly diverse student body and an inherently (and inherited) homogenous curriculum. “Meeting today’s students where they are” is a…
Young Adults & War
How can literature for young adults and children help to foster lasting positive social change?
Q&A with the author of Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf studies a specific motif in modernist literature: the act of looking at portrait photographs.
Q&A with the author of The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
C. Ceyhun Arslan discusses the inspiration behind his new book, and the surprises he encountered along the way.
Is this the time of the essay? CounterText: Volume 9, Issue 3
by Mario Aquilina ‘Is this the time of the essay?’ Or ‘is the essay out of time?’ ‘What is time in the essay?’ ‘What, actually, is the essay, today?’ ‘Do we, in post-literary times, keep focusing on the essay as…
A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’
by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2. The New Americanist continues a tradition of research publication at the American Studies Center (University of Warsaw)—some iteration of the…
Yogic Yeats and Jung: Early European Receptions of Asian Meditation Manuals
by Chris Murray Should Europeans meditate? Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) said not, but William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) disagreed. To argue his opinion, each adopted Goethe’s character Faust as a paradigm for the non-Asian psyche. For much of his life, Yeats…