(Please see this entry for more about the book.) The review: So the world has finally received a solid academic monograph about Elizabeth Strout’s works, which, as far as I know, is the first of...
Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose are two literary works that hardly fit into one single literary category. Critics of all quarters are at one...
This thesis singles out point of view (POV) as the governing technical choice in creative writing. As such it integrates creative practice with an essay on the theoretical basis for a POV across remote contexts....
From the introduction: The opening essay by Elke D’hoker raises our awareness of an Irish genre tradition that has received surprisingly little attention: the short story cycle. While the short story – characterised by Declan...
Fiction has the potential to bring the climate crisis into the imagination and help readers understand and respond to climate change. From speculative ‘cli-fi’ to contemporary eco fiction, literary responses to climate change vary greatly...
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Prof. Lars Bernaerts of Ghent University. He has founded and coordinated the Centre for the Study of Experimental Literature (SEL), which, among other things, will have...
In the 21st century, the demands of digital presence and the distractions of the internet simultaneously challenge writers wishing to represent contemporary life and threaten the attention readers are willing to give to literature. In...