Terry Pratchett discusses the full range of Terry Pratchett’s writing, from Discworld to his equally successful, award-winning novels for children and the unrelated “stand-alone” novels. It explores Pratchett's development as a writer, showing how “story” – the narrative we build about ourselves and the world – can be both liberating and shackling. There are readers … Continue reading
Archival Encounter: Editing Charles Olson’s The Special View of History, Revised and Expanded Edition
In this blog, John Faulise, the editor of The Special View of History: Revised and Expanded Edition examines how an archival encounter with the source materials at the Charles Olson Research Collection resulted in this new edition of Olson’s major statement on postmodern poetics. The need for a new edition of Charles Olson’s The Special … Continue reading
Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland
In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” … Continue reading
The Return of Ezra Pound on his 140th birthday
The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series is a project dedicated to publishing a variety of scholarly and literary works relevant to Ezra Pound and Modernism, including new critical monographs on Pound and/or other Modernists, scholarly studies related to Pound and his legacy, edited collections of essays, volumes of original poetry, reissued books of … Continue reading
James Joyce and Lu Xun in Tandem
The Wanderings of Modernism addresses the notion of wandering in English-speaking literary modernism. Focusing on the interwar period, it encompasses the material aspects of wandering lifestyles, their social and cultural conceptualizations, from tourism to exile, and the politics of localization and displacement, from a diverse range of scholarly and theoretical perspectives. James Joyce and the … Continue reading
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