Stephen Medcalf (1936-2007) was a dedicated University teacher all his life, but in the wider world he was an essayist, in the best traditional sense of that calling: a writer not of books but of subs
All the books in the Spanish poet Lorca's (1898-1936) early cycle revolve around the theme of desire, says Quance (Spanish, Queen's U., Belfast), yet do so very differently. After a note on his early
From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social practices. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender s
The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827). Foscolo's translation of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journ
France is known for its strong purist tradition with regards to language, with many purists raising concerns that contact with English can lead to both lexical and syntactic borrowing, but despite the
Drawing from research he conducted for his PhD at the University of Manchester, Whiteley interprets the life and work of British novelist and critic Pater (1839-94) as a series of his readings and re-
Huot (medieval French literature, Pembroke College, Cambridge) tackles the enigmatic thirteenth-century poem Roman de la Rose. Begun by one author and completed by another, it has been considered porn
Italian women who write fantasy literature have no female models to draw from. Hipkins (Italian, University of Exeter, UK) explores how this causes them to create their own literary space but also how
