Interview with Maggie Humm
Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human
A Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction on the idea of AI-created storytelling, and how nonhuman narratives reshape literary theory.
What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange?
Eret Talviste explores Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.
American Poets Traveled to Europe and It Shaped Modern Literary History
Elin Käck discusses the role of American poets’ travels to Europe in the evolution of modern American poetry and literary history in general.
Reading Mrs Dalloway
Explore how Marion Milner’s psychoanalytic reading of Mrs Dalloway reveals themes of motherhood, desire, and the transformative act of reading in modernist literature.
How long has there been a “modern” English literature?
by A. Robert Lee In this ambitious new study A. Robert Lee tackles the question of how, and why, a given selection of English literary writings can assume the mantle of “modern.” To this end Moderns – Chaucer to Contemporary…
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.
Five Types of Mysticism: Religious Culture in the Age of Modernism
by Jamie Callison Ask for a description of a mystic or a follower of mysticism, and you might be greeted with a portrait of an otherworldly recluse speaking in riddles and perhaps evincing some unusual physical symptoms like those found…
Abstraction for all? Thoughts from the author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity
by Jeff Wallace When you’ve written something exploratory, it can take a little while to work out what it is that you’ve done. This blog about my new book Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman is written from…