The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) has been regarded as a classic of European literature since soon after its publication in 1958. It recounts the decline and fall of Sicily’s aristocracy.
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While the man the world knows as ‘Papa’ balanced the demands of parenting with his work, his letters and fiction offer a window into the depth of his paternal feeling.
Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.
Felicity Volk’s novel Desire Lines traces two families across the 20th century, from the Arctic Circle and to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Australia’s literary journals are produced within a fragile ecosystem – becoming more vulnerable every year.
From cholera outbreaks to public health actions, war metaphors have long been used to describe diseases, to show what we fear and to explain our world to ourselves.
Then – as now – the wealthy fled to the countryside, while the urban poor were forced to work on the front lines.
Through careful framing and dialogue, Autumn de Wilde’s movie portrays Emma as the embodiment of perfection, rather than less-than-faultless heroine of Austen’s book.
‘Walden,’ published in 1854, is a manual for solitude with a purpose.
Readers often turn to romance fiction in times of uncertainty. Here are five reads for the newbie romance reader, for when you need a story where everything turns out okay in the end.
Sometimes you can understand more of the world from the comfort of your own home
A children’s novelist chooses her favourite books to keep young people happy and absorbed while stuck at home.
Pandemic fiction is more popular than ever – but what these books and movies offer us isn’t as straightforward as you might think.
Western literature began with a plague and ever since, writers have been using pandemics to comment on society.
With hundreds of book covers displaying previously taboo swear words, are publishers losing the ability to shock readers?
Literature of the past can help us to make the cultural shift that’s necessary to address climate change.
Publishers funnel massive amounts of resources into promoting titles that they think will become bestsellers. But they’ve become spellbound by ‘stories of struggle’ that can succumb to stereotypes.
The Tambora-Frankenstein myth silences Shelley’s critique of science.
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
Is a 19th-century French author’s cosmic joke turning into a real-life global nightmare?
Principales colaboradores
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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
