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Book Apps and Digital Textuality

Zita Farkas May 31, 2017 1 Comment adaptation studies book apps digital literature Faber & Faber hypermedia iDickens iLovecraft interactive media literary applications literary apps literary canon medial ecology N Katherine Hayles paratextual Play Creatividad print remediation Sherlock: Interactive Adventure Touch Press

With its vast storage capacity for digitising the majority of canonised literary works, the Internet offers a wide variety of resources for contemporary readers. Unsurprisingly, the digital medium…

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Re-imagining Bluebeard’s Wives: Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr Fox

Heidi Yeandle January 5, 2016 No Comments Angela Carter Bluebeard contemporary culture contemporary literature Daphne du Maurier doubling fairy tale Helen Oyeyemi humiliation identity crisis literary adaptation literary canon Margaret Atwood marriage masculine power murder punishment rivalry sisterhood Ted Hodgkinson

In a Granta Magazine interview with Ted Hodgkinson, Helen Oyeyemi talks about re-writing the endings of canonical texts to suit her own reading of the novel in question. Writing in the margins of library books, Oyeyemi ‘would cross out endings that I didn’t like and I would rewrite them […] I would order everything to …

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Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup

Jacob Murphy March 26, 2013 8 Comments Adam Roberts adaptation studies Android Karenina BBC costume drama Charles Dickens Coleridge Cook death of the author Franz Kafka Great Expectations Harry Potter parodies hybrid text I Am Scrooge Jane Austen literary adaptation literary canon literary genre literary mashup Lolcatz mashup fiction Meowmorphosis Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Quirk Books Roland Barthes Seth Graeme-Smith The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…

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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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The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Michael J. Collins December 9, 2012 15 Comments A Visit From the Goon Squad Allen Tate American short story annual canonicity Charles Dickens China Mieville consumption digital culture e-readers Edgar Allen Poe F. R. Leavis flash fiction Frank O'Connor generic instability history of the book Jennifer Egan John Crowe Ransom Kindle literary canon literary copyright literary fiction literary genre literary marketplace litfic Louisa May Alcott magazine market pressures mass market periodicals Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne print culture published fiction Raymond Williams seasonal periodical Short story The Man Booker Prize the novel form Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern twitter fiction Washington Irving

Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick…

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