Though sharing with Fifty Shades the overall themes of sexual domination and submission, Story of O remains a work of substantial literary merit.
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In the face of planetary problems such as climate change, does national citizenship lose its meaning?
Can a gender studies academic also write Mills and Boon novels? And can purple prose be as empowering as a pink pussy hat? The answer is yes, and yes again.
From censorship, to mainstream, to Donald Trump: erotica has a long and varied history.
What stories can teach children about the world.
‘Autofiction’ has an important role to play in this new post-truth world.
With its dramatic landscape, relative isolation and vibrant counter culture, Western Australia has a thriving writing scene. But government funding cuts are biting.
The best selling book on Amazon is ‘1984’ – which was originally published in 1949. A historian from Case Western Reserve University considers how the novel helps us think about our present moment.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
Virginia Woolf’s archive can be seen as a serious resource for research into the experience of hearing voices.
Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different.
The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
A number of novels provide links between risk-assessment, financial speculation, and terrorism. But simultaneously, real life terror in 2016 renders writing about it completely and utterly pointless.
Arguably the most obscene and offensive work of fiction ever written is going to be sold in America as a mainstream classic for the first time.
The Cuban leader even acted as an unofficial editor for the Nobel Prize-winning author.
The famous story of a group of schoolboys trapped on an island is more than a little reminiscent of the real world right now.
The centenary of Natsume Soseki’s death this year is being marked by numerous events, not least his resurrection in robotic form.
One of English poetry’s most recognisable voices has been memorialised in Westminster Abbey.
The search for oil was once depicted in movies and books as a boys’ own adventure. But as films such as Deepwater Horizon show, in an age of anxieties over fossil fuels, oil’s story is now a darker one.
The Bad Sex Awards are a reminder of the literary value of discipline and restraint in matters of bonking.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Literature and Gender Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer in Digital Arts & Humanities, University College Cork
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
