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Interviews on Great Writers

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Oriental Tales and Their Influence

March 26, 2013 · 27 min

Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century…
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?

October 8, 2012 · 11 min

Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary…
Postcolonial Women Writers

October 8, 2012 · 20 min

Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking…
DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?

August 28, 2012 · 25 min

Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns…
Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim

August 28, 2012 · 25 min

Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this second part, Peter closely analyses the narrative functions in Heart and Darkness and Lord Jim in order to consider…

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Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe

August 28, 2012 · 15 min

Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. Achebe deemed Conrad a 'bloody…
Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott

August 24, 2012 · 39 min

Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical…
Shakespeare and Voice

August 1, 2012 · 8 min

Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'.
A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'.

July 16, 2012 · 17 min

Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions…