Literature
Dickens, Daumier and the Man of Law
University of Warwick
Reading as Art
Leeds Beckett University
Simon Morris examines the relationship between reading and art. He proposes a new method of making art via conceptualist performed […]
Woolf’s atom, Eliot’s catalyst, and Richardson’s waves of light: science and modernism in 1919
Queen Mary University of London
Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world […]
One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile
Boston University
Alicia Borinsky discusses how writers and artists in exile face challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and […]
The Economics of Metonymy
Harvard University
Konstantinos P. Kavafis–known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy–has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted […]
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel
Harvard University
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel and investigates […]
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule
Harvard University
David Wang, Harvard University, discusses colonialism and modernity in East Asia from the perspective of subjects very different from those that […]
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Natural Science and the Making of Modern German Literature
Jeremy Adler, Kings College London, discusses the topic of “two cultures” and expands upon C.P Snows’s notion of the “third […]
