Worthy words on collaboration: Artists like Diana Smith can make digital oil paintings out of computer code; sculptors are laying down their chisels and ordering 3D printers; bands can link produce hits without ever meeting in person. Technology opens new lines of communication and creation, and portals to the art world pop up everywhere: the […]
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The Death of The Author: A Fun, Expensive Funeral
I just finished a Creative Writing course here in Exeter, which was lovely. It doesn’t make me art, or an artist, but it did make me create things and pore over them religiously. The last week of the course was entirely dedicated to the art of editing and raising awareness of the weirdness and clumsiness […]
Does the Writing of Shakespeare Shape Society?
“If Shakespeare had never existed,” he asked, “would the world have differed so much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilisation depend upon great men?” Virginia Woolf posed this question in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. We spend years of our life studying Shakespeare: his works surround us, from our GCSE […]
The World of Literature Explored Through Film
While book to film adaptations in the world of modern cinema are easy to find, renowned classics and contemporary films centred around the art of literature itself are rarer. Films which explore the world of literature and the authors who create them can be just as valuable to the reader as an adaptation of their […]
Favourite Films Centred Around Literature
While book to film adaptations of renowned classics and contemporary fiction in the world of modern cinema are easy to find, film centred around the art of literature itself can be rarer to find. Films that explore the world of literature and the authors who create them can be just as valuable to the reader as […]
Preview: ‘Giant Days’ by Non Pratt
“The reason we came here- to university- wasn’t to avoid the rest of the world; it was to explore it.” In Non Pratt’s witty and heartfelt fourth novel, ‘Giant Days’, the reader adopts the position of the explorer as three students catapulted into Sheffield University come to terms with their surroundings and blooming friendships. Based […]
Books for Music Lovers
Just Kids by Patti Smith Frequently hailed as the godmother of punk, this touching memoir details Patti Smith’s entrance into the New York music and art scene in the early 1970s, where she meets and falls for the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Tinged with youthful innocence and naivety, this tale of two young artists struggling to […]
Prose Poetry: No rhyme nor reason
Prose poetry or poetic prose? It would be wrong to strictly say that prose cannot be as poetic and contemplative of language as poetry is; however, the form of prose poetry alleviates the restrictive nature of rigorously rhymed poetry. So what then makes prose, poetry? Lavish, rich, contemplative language brands poetry, intensifying imagery and emotion. […]
A reflection on core texts
What could I buy with £9,250? I couldn’t buy a car, but considering my lack of a license and the small insignificant detail of having failed my test four times, I’m okay with that. I couldn’t buy a house, but who the heck can nowadays? But I could buy my course books, El Balneario and La […]
If it’s a Scottish play, why is it in German? Dimitra Mina reviews the Residenztheater’s Production of Macbeth.
I ought to preface this review with the statement “I do not speak any German”. Although one of my personal goals for my year abroad is to learn German, at this current junction of the year I can order a cup of tea and thank people, and that would be the end of it. However, whilst […]