“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 […]
Category: Literature
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 […]
Counterfactual Conditionals. Orthodoxy and Its Challenges
In Counterfactual Conditionals, Daniel Dohrn discusses the standard account of counterfactuals, conditionals of the form ‘If A had been the case, then B would have […]
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 […]
From Vanitas to Veritas. John Donne and the Journey of the Soul
An overview of the complex world of John Donne’s poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne’s […]