Tales of (Dis)connection
By Lisa Feklistova Consider the witch. Why did she frighten Europeans, once upon a time?
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Journée d’études / Study Day on Short Crime Fiction – 14 October 2022, Université Catholique de Lille
Call for Papers Modern detective fiction is usually considered to have started with Edgar Allan Poe’s three Dupin short stories and it is certain that the Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand magazine brought the new genre to the attention of the world. Other notable writers who helped shape the genre in the early 20th century, including…
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In Quest of Forgotten Yellow Book Writer Ethel Colburn Mayne
By Elke D’hoker While early reviews routinely likened her work to that of Henry James, by 1923, Mayne was called ““the only short-story writer capable of succeeding Katherine Mansfield”
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Alice Munro in the Classroom
By Ailsa Cox Some one said to me the other day, ‘I don’t get Alice Munro.’ It’s okay, I told her.
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CFP: Nomadic texts and subjectivities Metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carters’ works
University of Angers, France 22-24 June 2022 “The nomad has a territory; he follows customary paths; […] A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own. The life of the nomad is the intermezzo.” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 380. “If the…