Before I attended Danny Denton’s talk on “Being Present: how ideas of physical space, place & non-place were used to build the worlds of The Earlie King… and All Along The Echo“, I had never heard of the term non-place. I had never stopped to wonder, either. Like, what is it? Not a place, as… Continue reading space, place and non-place
Category: seminars
climate change is an emergency
It is also funny because she thought she was making a change. I actually have no knowledge of if she is behind any policies that are trying to fight climate change, since she went into Law and all that jazz—but she is no Greta Thunberg. The thing is: no change was made. And climate change… Continue reading climate change is an emergency
homoerotic victorians
Michael G. Cronin’s seminar, Hopeful and Homoerotic Spaces in Irish Writing, dealt with how “homoerotic desire can be a vector for utopian longing”. As he went on, I could not help but let my mind wander around; think about those pieces I’ve read or watched that captured homoerotic yearning, and which ones stood out to… Continue reading homoerotic victorians
short stories, long-lasting impact
Rita Kelly’s Research Seminar, ‘Revisiting thus the glimpses of the moon’, focused on a literary genre that had been greatly overlooked during my undergrad back in Spain: the short story. Perhaps it was so because of the necessity and hunger to cram every longer-length classic into the syllabus, leaving no space for the shorter (but… Continue reading short stories, long-lasting impact