This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to…
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The Silent Scene of Reading: Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience
Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or…
About The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations
This is an author interview by Fernando G Herrero, author of The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect. What was the assembling idea behind this work? I was in the middle of the PhD at Duke University in the…
Finding Oneself in Art’s Visionary Moment
This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of…
The Power of Literature: ‘Colette and the Incest Taboo’
This is a guest post by Carol Mastrangelo Bové, author of Colette and the Incest Taboo. Julia Kristeva’s book Colette sparked my interest in an author I had not understood when I first read her decades ago. So literary critics…
Café Reflections: Gothic and the Nordic Countries
This is a guest post by Robert William, author of Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature Sipping coffee in a street café in Copenhagen on a radiant August day, I found myself surrounded by laughter, the hum of…
Representing Appalachia
This is a guest post by Sarah Robertson, author of Gothic Appalachian Literature ‘Backwards’. ‘Hillbillies’. ‘Trash’. You’ve heard them all before: the derogatory labels commonly bandied about when discussing Appalachia. In 2016, Appalachia became the nation’s boogey monster once again,…
The Protest, Experimental Poetics of African American and Aboriginal Australian Poets
This is a guest post by Ameer Chasib Furaih, author of Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s When I arrived in Australia in late 2014, my original intention was to research African American…
The Urge to Illustrate Shakespeare
This is an interview by Jean-Louis CLARET, author of Picturing Shakespeare Q1. What urges you to illustrate Shakespeare? It is difficult to determine this precisely, but I feel that I need to show, with shapes and colours, parts of my…
Key issues in translation theory for practicing translators
This is an interview by B.J. Woodstein, author of Translation Theory for Literary Translators Q: B.J., why did you choose to write this book? A: As a teacher, I found that my students were scared of theory or thought it…