Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?
Articles on Literature
Displaying 81 - 100 of 1002 articles
Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.
Many of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories examine male characters facing emotional catastrophe, betrayal and moral dilemmas.
In my survey, 39% of novelists reported that their income has already been negatively impacted by GenAI.
The book began life as a lockdown blog post about its author’s experiences in a logistics warehouse.
Canadian literature cannot be defined solely by the language in which it is written. Instead, it must be understood as a multilingual body of work shaped the diverse people who live here.
The Running Man is social commentary that delivers its message through aggressive, fast-paced action and explosive violence.
It’s a propulsive novel that’s quite quick to read.
It has been a major year for Stephen King films.
Six works of literary fiction at its most adult.
The stories in The Eleventh Hour tell Rushdie’s life story in metaphorical glimpses.
The novel is filled with distinctive characters, shady dealings, women of moral ambiguity and heroes and villains alike.
Across both trilogies, two opposing views of Dust exist.
In many of Austen’s novels, going out in the rain meant risking illness or death. Was this really the case?
Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help kids learn to read.
Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political upheaval.
Grisham’s first foray into the murder mystery is light on clues but heavy on critique of the law.
Sources as old as Pliny the Younger, the ancient Roman lawyer and writer, tell stories of houses that are haunted.
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of Orwell’s predictions have come true.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
-
Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
-
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
-
Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
-
Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
-
Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
-
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
-
Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
-
Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
-
Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
-
Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
-
Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University