Interviews on Great Writers
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Oriental Tales and Their Influence
26 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as t...
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched ...
Postcolonial Women Writers
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why thi...
DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?
28 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
28 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this second part, Peter closely...
Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe
28 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Ch...
Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott
24 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact ...
Shakespeare and Voice
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by ...
A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'.
16 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 Shake...