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How to read the real Elena Ferrante
Do novels need authors? A storm broke out this week around journalist Claudio Gatti’s decision to reveal the true identity of popular Italian novelist […]
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Screening the Literary: Writing Quality on the Web
Workshop at Lancaster University 28 October 2016 Venue: Infolab C60b/c Claims abound regarding the potential death of the printed book and its consequences for culture and society, and studies on […]
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Manchester Event Examines Literary Celebrity as a Product of Caste Privilege in India
Manchester Discussion for Hatred in the Belly: Politics behind the appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar’s writings by the Ambedkar Age Collective When: 6 – 8 pm, 6th October 2016 Where: […]
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Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne spent three weeks in March 2016 at the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster as translator-in-residence. As part of his stay, he worked alongside our MA students […]
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Conference Report: ‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media
The European Network for Short Fiction Research held its conference entitled ‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media, on the 13th and 14th of May […]
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Writing, Life, and Death (Goodbye to Imre Kertész)
Writing Life and Death. Writing: Life and Death. Writing Life, and Death. Punctuation is never quite innocent. These three variations on a possible title together draw a portrait of […]
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Thesis of the Month: New Commitment: Authors Against the Unacceptable
Chloé Chaudet tells the story of her thesis about literary commitment and how she had to face preconceptions about this phenomenon, which seems outdated to most contemporary literary scholars and […]
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World Authorship: Charting the Human Face of Literature
Interim report on an idea By Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun World literature, as both a marketing phenomenon and an area of academic study, is booming. But amidst all […]
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Researching Authorship in the 21st-Century University
9 March was an exciting day in the life of the Hub. We invited researchers from across Lancaster University who work on questions related to authorship in the broadest sense […]
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Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author
Umberto Eco died. I wish it were one of his characters stating this; we could then doubt it. One of the many things you learn with Eco’s fiction is namely […]
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