Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why po ... Show More
Oct 2012
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul ... Show More
10m 40s
Aug 2012
DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?
Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns to Lawrence's short story, 'The Woman Who ... Show More
25m 18s
Aug 2022
437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
Responding to a listener email, a heartbroken Jacke takes a close look at Emily Dickinson's astonishing poem "A Bird, came down the Walk." Additional listening suggestions: 120 The Astonishing Emily Dickinson 418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson 95 The Runa ... Show More
54m 31s
Mar 2021
S02E03 - Slowburn Shakespeare, part 1 of 6
Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 1 of this slowburn mini-series looks at the question, "Who wrote Shakespeare?". en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from p ... Show More
52m 59s