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5 Dimensions of Affect in Bergson’s Philosophy
Read more: 5 Dimensions of Affect in Bergson’s PhilosophyHenri Bergson's philosophy reveals time as a continuous and interconnected melody.
Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…
The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A
by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach？
by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet bestsellers in bookstores across China as they are today, nor were there as many academic articles discussing their literary value.…
Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
Children, Charity and Magazines
A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
AVANT-GARDES INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA!
Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?
W. B. Yeats’s late-career engagement with the Irish language poetry of dispossession
Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.
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…