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Re-inscribing De Quincey's palimpsest : the significance of the palimpsest in contemporary literary and cultural studies
(2005-09) - Journal article
In 1845, Thomas De Quincey inaugurated the substantive concept of 'the palimpsest'. Since then, this concept has frequently occurred in creative, critical and theoretical texts across the fields of literature, philosophy ...
Chaotic narrative : complexity, causality, time and autopoiesis in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
(2011-03-10) - Journal article
David Mitchell is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers who is only just becoming the subject of academic attention. Focusing on his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), this essay argues that the science of complexity ...
"It's a question of words, therefore" : becoming-animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
(2011-03) - Journal article
This essay reads Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin (2000) in the context of contemporary philosophical and literary critical debates about the ethical relation between human and nonhuman animals. It argues that ...
An English lecturer, a palliative care practitioner, and an absent poet have a confabulation
(2014-07-09) - Journal article
The possibilities for developing the poet Douglas Dunn’s archive (which includes the drafts and manuscripts for his collection Elegies, dealing with the terminal illness and death of the poet’s wife from cancer) for ...