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...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
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...
Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, 'Waiting for Godot' Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in myriad ways...