The case of WG Sebald is somewhere between the two. When Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was just achieving his deserved fame as the author of remarkable prose works including ...
“Wax Fruit was quite unusual for its time in that it concentrated on the lives of the Victorian middle classes in Glasgow. “It was very different from other Glasgow novels of the period, like the ...
Our focus is on understanding how texts and languages work across national boundaries, how they function, and how they interact. We bring together the academic disciplines of English literature, ...
"He was a true polymath, excelling as a poet, novelist, educator..." Abigail Sutherland discusses the literary influence of Rabindranath Tagore across the world ...
In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel.