Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparat...

Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot). 

Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the second lecture, Brown talks about the ways in which writers choose to break up their works into chapters, parts, and volumes. 

Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the first lecture, Brown discusses the use of the unreliable narrator, particularly in Nabokov's Lolita and McEwan's Atonement. 

Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. 

Can we still consider English literature English? 

Conférence du 31 mai 2017 en partenariat avec la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, l'Institut de France et la BnF. De grands noms de la littérature, de l'art, de la science, du monde des idées et de la politique sont invités par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Fondatio ... Show More

Learn about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens in our Let’s Talk Literature episode from English Plus Podcast. Learn about the major characters, plot, themes and much more in this episode.  Find the interactive transcript on our website https://englishpluspodcast.com/lets-ta ... Show More

I chat with Megan and Maura about the first 3rd of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. We discuss why its opening sentence has become one of the most famous sentences in English, the pros and cons of presenting history through fiction, what makes Dickens' style so appealing, how the f ... Show More

Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Ico ... Show More

In his latest book In Writing (Hamish Hamilton) psychoanalyst and regular LRB contributor Adam Phillips celebrates the art of close reading and asks what it is to defend literature in a world that is increasingly devaluing language. Through a vivid series of readings of writers h ... Show More

http://www.aufonddelaclasse.comC'est l'épreuve reine des études littéraires. Le but d’un commentaire est d’interpréter un texte inconnu, c’est-à-dire de rendre compte de l’originalité de ce texte, en expliquant ses effets prévisibles sur les lecteurs par une analyse précise. Cet ... Show More

Jacke talks to Alison Strayer, translator of several books by French author Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. PLUS he talks to author and Chekhov expert Bob Blaisdell about his choice for the last book he will ever read.ANNIE ERNAUX (The Years, Getting ... Show More

Michael Johnston's The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500 (Oxford UP, 2023) addresses a series of questions about the copying and circulation of literature in late medieval England: How do we make sense of the variety of manuscripts surviving from this period? Wh ... Show More