From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of […]
Category: Literature
Peter Churchill. The Forgotten Novels of a British Secret Agent
After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated in German occupied Northern Italy in the autumn/ winter of […]
Beyond the Walls of Baghdad
“In the beginning, the beginning of your story, this story that isn’t yours, there was a single article….” These are the opening words: the location […]
We Women of Tehran
Interpreted on stage by Farian Sabahi, We the Women of Tehran – written in the first person from a female standpoint – illustrates the origins […]
Retold Resold Transformed. Crime Fiction in the Global Era
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly […]
Fernando Pessoa. A quasi memoir
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded […]
Nation, Community, Self. Female Voices in Scottish Theatre From the Late Sixties to the Present
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution […]
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality. Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens
The Odyssey is rightly celebrated as a story that goes far beyond the scope of epic poetry. It is an open window to an entire […]
Lexical Collocations in Bilingual Dictionaries
Elusive yet intuitive at the same time, the concept of collocation has attracted the attention of different branches of linguistics for many a year, owing […]