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Railways and Fiction

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…

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Diverse Suburbias

Rowena Clarke January 12, 2013 1 Comment A Gesture Life A. M. Holmes Aloft Chang-rae Lee contemporary fiction David Lynch demographics Gary Shteyngart immigrant incorporation in Suburban America Ira Levin Jack Finney Jeffrey Eugenides Jhumpa Lahiri Junot Diaz literature Native Speaker New York Peter Weir Rick Moody suburbia suburbs Tom Perotta twenty-first-century American fiction Westchester

Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have…

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Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum

Sarah Olive January 12, 2013 1 Comment close reading cultural value English classroom English curriculum F. R. Leavis Henley Review of Cultural Education ideology literary canon literary value National Curriculum for English practical criticism Q. D. Leavis Scrutiny Shakespeare The Great Tradition

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…

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Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments 9/11 Alan Moore Art Spiegelman Batman closure comics comics scholarship Dark Knight Returns Dave Gibbon DC Comics Fantagraphics Books form formal analysis Frank Miller genre gutter Marjane Satrapi panel transitions Persepolis Scott McCloud Sin City superheroes The Real Thing The Spirit Unreal Watchmen Will Eisner

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…