Literature and Form 2: Chapters

Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison'. 

Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot). 

Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. 

Can we still consider English literature English? 

Conférence du 31 mai 2017 en partenariat avec la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, l'Institut de France et la BnF. De grands noms de la littérature, de l'art, de la science, du monde des idées et de la politique sont invités par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Fondatio ...  Show more

I chat with Megan and Maura about the first 3rd of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. We discuss why its opening sentence has become one of the most famous sentences in English, the pros and cons of presenting history through fiction, what makes Dickens' style so appealing, how the f ...  Show more