Towards the end of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, the two main characters, Connell and Marianne, talk sleepily one…
Tag: Literary Studies
Issue 6:1 of CounterText features ‘The Fever Chart’, a new and extraordinarily timely novella by John Kinsella. Begun in late…
CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary is five years old! To celebrate the occasion, Edinburgh University Press…
Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation
“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests
Tom Ue discusses the relation between Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests
Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.
Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.
Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.
Celebrating the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Elizabeth Bishop, editor Jonathan Ellis lists 22 things you didn’t know about Bishop.
By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke…