Post Tagged with: "twentieth century"
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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story of her thesis about literary commitment and how she had to face preconceptions about this phenomenon, which seems outdated to most contemporary literary scholars and […]
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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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Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas
University of Warwick, 22-23 January 2016 Translation was an integral part of the literary practice of many twentieth-century writers and thinkers. It provided them with such an important lens for […]
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Thesis of the Month: Schrödinger’s Joyce
In the inaugural selection for our thesis the month, Sophie Corser, PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, speaks about her complicated relationship with Ulysses and Joyce, and the experience of reading a text […]
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Call for papers: Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas
CALL FOR PAPERS Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas University of Warwick, 22-23 January 2016 Translation was an integral part of the literary practice of many twentieth-century writers and […]
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