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Beyond Dead Poets Society
Moberley Luger observes that even as scholars increasingly attend to poetry’s cultural work, classrooms have remained a New Critical stronghold
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies
Smaro Kamboureli discusses the growing trend toward materialist assessments of Canadian literature that is subject to a host…
Frankenstein’s Ghosts
Emily Hodgson Anderson discusses Mary Shelley’s references to ghosts in Frankenstein and shows that these references allow Shelley…
The Importance of Artifice
Ruth Robbins discusses the use of ritual and the structuralist theories of language in The Importance of Being…
Mirroring the “Long Reformation”
Cathy Shrank examines how printed English translations of Erasmus' colloquies reflect the different phases of the “Long Reformation.”
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics
Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Jane Austen’s novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political…
Romeo and Juliet with Chinese characteristics
Julie Sanders discusses the relationship between Shakespearean texts and the idea of social justice in China today. Image…
Renaissance Woman
Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families…
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
Ken Gelder discusses hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became an…
My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay discusses his childhood, the institutional care system, family and the meaning of home. Lemn Sissay MBE…
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