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Tag: Literary Studies

Atlantic Literature

About William S. Burroughs

posted by Teri Williams November 2, 20207 min read85 Views

By Stanley Gontarski American outlier writer, William S. Burroughs, was a creative force, as a writer in his own right,…

Cultural Studies

Black Lives Matter and African American literature of the 1950s

posted by Kirsty Crosbie July 20, 20208 min read159 Views

Participants in the protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota have emphasised historical continuity in the experience of racist oppression in the United States.

Literary Studies

Normal People and the strangeness of other people

posted by Kirsty Crosbie July 9, 20207 min read195 Views

Towards the end of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, the two main characters, Connell and Marianne, talk sleepily one…

Language and Literature

John Kinsella’s ‘The Fever Chart’, out now in CounterText 6:1

posted by Teri Williams June 5, 20202 min read186 Views

Issue 6:1 of CounterText features ‘The Fever Chart’, a new and extraordinarily timely novella by John Kinsella. Begun in late…

Atlantic Literature

CounterText is five years old

posted by Teri Williams April 21, 20202 min read442 Views

CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary is five years old! To celebrate the occasion, Edinburgh University Press…

Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Robert Louis Stevenson and Character Creation

posted by Kirsty Crosbie December 10, 20195 min read572 Views

Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation

Film and TV

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

posted by Kirsty Crosbie October 30, 20198 min read914 Views

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

Tom Ue discusses the relation between Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

Language and Literature

The Case for the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel

posted by Carla Hepburn August 15, 20194 min read1068 Views

Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.

Language and Literature

Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

posted by Carla Hepburn June 28, 20197 min read763 Views

Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.

Language and Literature

Creative Involution – A Conversation

posted by Carla Hepburn May 15, 201912 min read810 Views

Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.

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