Mar 26, 2013

As our lives become more networked, people are engaging more and more with structures. But they are not merely inhabiting these structures – they are...

Mar 26, 2013

As literary scholars we are often bending and stretching our frame of reference looking for a new lens with which to examine texts to provide fresh insight and unique views. We beg, borrow and steal ideas from...

Mar 26, 2013

In April 2012, the Northern Irish writer Glenn Patterson published his eighth novel, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, with Faber. The book is the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s first ever...

Mar 26, 2013

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...

Jan 12, 2013

Christopher Daley   Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery of commuting to characterise the railways as a site of soaring ticket prices and overcrowded, invariably late trains. But this sentiment lives alongside whimsy and romanticism, be it through...

Jan 12, 2013

Rowena Clarke   Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have been dominated by a particular set of characteristic tropes. Responding, in part, to the mass-produced nature of suburban landscapes and buildings, with their uniform housing designs and pre-planned...

Jan 12, 2013

Cultural criticism and cultural histories of the development of English as a subject place special emphasis on the role of intellectuals, education and national identity...

Jan 12, 2013

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form...