The Language of Survival and Resistance: A Review of Shereen Malherbe’s Yassini Girls, by Zeynep Alp Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 11/18/2024 - 15:22 Yassini Girls (Beacon Books, 2024), the new novel by Shereen Malherbe, invites readers into... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-11-18 21:22:51 UTC ]
Though they’ve been icons of cinema for a while—see: Sadako, Shutter—it’s taken English literature a little longer to catch up to Asian women front and centre in stories of ghosts and horror. The prevalence of female ghosts across Asia has always interested me: how often their origin is rooted... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-08-16 11:05:00 UTC ]
Readers respond to a piece by Zoe Williams in which she reflects on reading smut and notes how attitudes have changedIn her article on reading smut, Zoe Williams focuses on the difference between romance and erotica (My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled - and I soon found... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-08-09 16:55:05 UTC ]
It’s that time of year again, dust off your English Literature degrees and…interpret these emojis? Take our quiz to see how your texting skills help you name these 25 books! A little rusty? All the answers are at the bottom! Click here for the first round of guessing the book title and here for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-05-24 11:10:00 UTC ]
Miss Americana has been discussed in English literature classes for some years now – sometimes alongside Shakespeare. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-01-02 11:01:25 UTC ]
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-08-29 12:24:41 UTC ]
In an analysis of 300,000 English Literature syllabi, these are the novels by women authors that were the most commonly assigned. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-25 13:22:28 UTC ]
Finding Her #ownvoice: A Conversation with Ivy Ngeow, by Susan Blumberg-Kason Interviews [email protected] Tue, 07/18/2023 - 15:46 Ivy Ngeow grew up in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and now makes her home in London. An architect and interior designer by... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-07-18 20:46:55 UTC ]
My clearest memory of my freshman year of college takes place in the emergency room of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where I was studying English Literature at Boston University and living on the eighteenth floor of Warren Towers, in Tower C, in a room with southern exposure. Despite... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-17 09:53:52 UTC ]
Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret AtwoodCarmen Callil, the publisher and writer who championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature, has died of leukemia in London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-18 09:09:25 UTC ]
On her first day at an American high school, the protagonist of my novel, Hira, faces a dilemma. She considers herself well-read, but as she rifles through a thick textbook in her English Literature class, she realizes that none of the American authors in there are familiar to her. It is 2010,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-09-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
In exhibit #3,767 of ginned-up cancel culture panic, The Daily Mail is reporting that Stirling University in Scotland… …has removed Jane Austen [from a literature course] to help “decolonise the curriculum” and “contribute increased diversity” on the syllabus. Stirling University’s English... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-06 15:14:17 UTC ]
Interviews For many years, better opportunities on foreign shores, political turmoil, and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal have contributed to a large-scale migration to foreign countries. Many Nepalese writers, now settled in the West, have begun writing... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-14 22:32:24 UTC ]
In September 1939, Elizabeth Hardwick took a Greyhound bus to New York to pursue a doctorate in 17th-century English literature at Columbia University. A few years earlier she had visited the city with two high school friends, staying at the Hotel Taft in Times Square. The women’s accents had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-16 09:55:56 UTC ]
A guide that can serve as a starting point to help you find interesting, relevant and fascinating free online english literature courses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-09-21 10:40:00 UTC ]
The Lit in Colour Pioneers programme, which supports UK schools in diversifying their English Literature curriculum, will be working with 119 cohorts from across the country this year, reaching almost 12,000 students. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-06 10:31:02 UTC ]
This week we’ve published the findings of research conducted by Lit in Colour, a campaign run by Penguin Random House and The Runnymede Trust to make the teaching of English Literature more inclusive and representative of the myriad of different voices and narratives that make up Britain’s past... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-29 23:09:45 UTC ]
Less than one percent of authors studied at GCSE English Literature are from an ethnic minority background. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2021-06-29 18:52:35 UTC ]
Research commissioned by Penguin Random House has revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-28 22:57:04 UTC ]
‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ is one of dozens of famous expressions that have entered common speech, but which originated in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The old quip about Hamlet, that it’s ‘too full of quotations’, wittily sums up the play’s influence on not just English literature but on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-06-24 17:00:06 UTC ]