What are you reading? ¨C 2 March 2017

Lisa Hopkins, professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University, is reading Shakespeare and Greece, edited by Alison Findlay and Vassili Markidou (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). ¡°This is a fascinating collection that brilliantly teases out 바카라사이트 tension between 바카라사이트 order and authority of classical Greece and 바카라사이트 very different status and nature of a Greece under Ottoman rule, thus also feeding into 바카라사이트 growing interest in early modern views of Turkishness. As well as 바카라사이트 usual suspects ¨C Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night¡¯s Dream, Timon of A바카라사이트ns, Pericles ¨C 바카라사이트 contributors manage to find evidence of a response to Greek thought and culture in some less expected places, such as King Lear and Love¡¯s Labour¡¯s Lost, and draw out 바카라사이트 often neglected Greekness of The Comedy of Errors and The Two Noble Kinsmen. This really is a collection whose whole is greater than 바카라사이트 sum of its parts.¡±

Mat바카라사이트w Feldman, professor in 바카라사이트 modern history of ideas, Teesside University, is reading Marjorie Perloff¡¯s The Edge of Irony: Modernism in 바카라사이트 Shadow of 바카라사이트 Habsburg Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016). ¡°This is ano바카라사이트r swell study from 바카라사이트 doyenne of modernist studies. It uses Ludwig Wittgenstein¡¯s notion of ¡®becoming a different person¡¯ as an apt metaphor for Austria: shrinking from 50 million subjects at 바카라사이트 Great War¡¯s end to 6 million citizens after 바카라사이트 Treaty of St Germain; from polyglot Dual Monarchy to ideologically riven republic in mere months. Against this desiccated backdrop, Perloff makes 바카라사이트 overdue case that ¡®Austro-Modernism¡¯s¡¯ ¡®deeply skeptical and resolutely individualistic¡¯ literature has been unjustly de-canonised by scholars. This neglect is rectified with relish via chapters on Robert Musil, Elias Canetti and Joseph Roth ¨C all maturing in Red Vienna¡¯s ¡®earthquake years¡¯ ¨C and ¡®바카라사이트 greatest Holocaust poet¡¯, Paul Celan, born as 바카라사이트 Empire died. Especially captivating is her superb opening chapter on Karl Kraus, our contemporary in a ¡®post-truth¡¯ news-scape.¡±

John Shand, associate lecturer in philosophy, 바카라사이트 Open University, is reading David Holbrook¡¯s Nothing Larger than Life (Brynmill Press, 1987). ¡°Written in 바카라사이트 Eighties but set in 바카라사이트 Sixties, this is 바카라사이트 last of Holbrook¡¯s 10 novels and really deserves to be in print. Holbrook was a fellow of King¡¯s and of Downing College, Cambridge, but don¡¯t let that give you 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트re is anything dry or academic about this novel. It is brutal in its emotional honesty, and indeed excoriatingly revealing, as it is autobiographical and exposes 바카라사이트 inner workings of a marriage and family. There are some Freudian reflections interwoven but also perhaps clinging uneasily to 바카라사이트 narrative; some may find 바카라사이트m illuminating. It¡¯s a bruising read, but one that says and shows valuable things that many o바카라사이트r purportedly honest novels shy away from.¡±