I feel like, if anyone at all has been paying close attention to my blog entries, it is fairly obvious that I made a big shift when it comes to my literary interests. Not that they wildly changed, because I mostly still like the same things than I did seven months ago, back in September,… Continue reading blogging journey / life journey
Category: 2022
all of this… for what?
The Cork International Film Festival is the reason I am writing this blog post today, even though I was only able to attend one screening of one single movie, despite wanting to watch many more. I do not regret watching the movie I, myself, chose to watch. It was fast paced, engaging, great cinematography and… Continue reading all of this… for what?
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