Cultural Misfits: Gender in Early Twentieth-century Literature Early 20th-century literature and social sciences contested with one another...
Do Romance Novels Reinforce Gender Stereotypes? Professor Catherine Roach considers how contemporary literature is presenting new...
How Folktales Contributed to the Confucianisation of Korea: Mother Green Tree Frog and her Children Through an examination of selected Korean folktales, the lecture will...
Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
Why Is Sir Walter Scott Not In Popular Culture Today? A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott Invent...
The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us In a sense, we are all storytellers, from the conversations...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...