Examines why Marc Soriano deserves much of the credit for the rise of Charles Perrault's stature in the history of French literature and culture during the 1970s and 1980s. Soriano's two volumes--'Les contes de Perrault, culture savante et traditions populaires' (1968) and 'Le dossier ...
When you read a description of place by someone such as Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, orErnest Hemingway, who has elevated that skill to the level of art, you are impressed. You read the description more than once. You think, “This person can really write.” You realize...
as well as the filmmaker himself and his filmmaking process. In charting the first two decades of Payne’s remarkable career, Leo Adam Biga pieces together an indelible portrait of an independent American artist.This is an invaluable contribution to film history and criticism – and a sheer plea...
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To King these for short novels were “pretty good” but clearly not horror. Two of them, The Long Walk and The Running Man were Dystopian sci-fi, both centering around nightmarish gameshows in a futuristic fascist America (indeed they could have been set in the same universe). The other ...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women (65–8 BCE), Satyrs Book II, Satyr III: The Stoicks chide him for his Laziness [James A. Mackay's biography of Service was titled "Vagabond of Verse" — that phrase was used earlier by Charles Kennett Burrow in an 1896 poem "Blind Mæ...
In each poem, however, Tolson, who was ethnically both African-American and native American, continued to opine about race, and about the difficulty of squaring the actual experiences of American minorities with the idea of equality promised by the American experiment. True, the form of Harlem ...
Who knows whose words generative AI has absorbed to generate ‘work’? Yours? Mine? Steven King? Dan Brown? Terry Pratchett? I’m sorry, call me ableist, classist and privileged if you like, but I got my publishing contracts through hard work and tenacity. If a working-class woman from...
Prior to joining University of Birm- ingham, Rebecca was a Postdoctoral Fellow on the ERC-funded project "Ego-Media: The Impact of New Media on Forms and Practices of Self-Presentation" at King's College London. Bronwen Thomas is Professor of English and New Media Studies at the University ...
(iii) For several generations, our family have been in the profession of architecture. I was assistant to my father when he was chief architect for the building of the local Town Hall. (6) Statement of referees To study in a college or university in the United Kingdom or other English ...