CW: alcohol and drug abuse Before June 1967, the world was preoccupied with what one presumes was the world’s preoccupation in the 60s: Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Motown, miniskirts, Vietnam. But at […]
Romanticism’s disservice to creative minds
Austen and Adaptation: Examining the Period Drama Genre
Period dramas capitalise on their audience’s existing views of the past, creating visual interpretations of stories that are familiar to English Literature classrooms by adapting works by the likes of Dickens, Austen, […]
The West, etc: Reimagining the Canon for a Global Era
In an increasingly connected world, we have more opportunities than ever before to explore the cultural and aesthetic works of people and peoples from every corner of the globe, from antiquity to […]
What are we to make of Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize?
The world’s most prestigious prize for literature has gone to Louise Glück, an American poet and adjunct professor at Yale, where she is also Rosenkranz Writer in Residence. Attempting to read the […]