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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most concentrated and thrilling tragedies. Macbeth is a warrior lord
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge
In Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019), Nicholas Bro
Today’s guest is Jessica Brantley, Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Brantley is th
Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on som
Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethin
Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly,
In this episode, our podcast host, Ti-han Chang, invited Ms Lin Hsin-hui, a bourgeoning Taiwanese Sc
Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths c
In Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2021), Laura Kolb examines
In light of J.D. Salinger's recent passing and on reflection of his literary contributions, The New
For this installment, we had the pleasure of hosting Norbert Danysz, a PhD candidate at Université L
Dive into the question of why audiences love Shakespeare’s plays and Game of Thrones so much, despit
What role do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a ga
In this episode, we have the pleasure to have Mr Chi Ta-wei, a renowned Taiwanese writer, talk about
Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (U Georgia Press, 2022) pro
What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium?
In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Ind
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early
