Time and memory are oft-explored ideas in English literature. How then did the modernist literary movement’s emergence in the early twentieth century inflect their treatment by contemporary writers? This influential play by Tennessee Williams provides an engaging case study in response to this question.

Unravelling the false colonial binaries of rationality/passion and civility/savagery, we reveal the heart of masculinist, colonial violence that undergirds the boys's descent into bloodlust on the island which functions as a microcosm for British/Western civilisation. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies  is frequently interpreted as a universal fable regarding the innate depravity of man and the fragility of civilisation. However, a critical examination of the text through th

As a Romantic poet who writes sense into (bodily) sensation, and sensation into sense, John Keats's poetic treatment of the body and its finitude arrests the central tension of human existence: A struggle between a desire to escape, or to embrace the bodily and fleshly finitude that is being alive.

Examining the postcolonial retellings in Wide Sargasso Sea : Its connections to Jane Eyre and its intellectual linkages to feminist-postcolonial scholarship/thinking. With Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jean Rhys presents a postcolonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s critically acclaimed work, Jane Eyre (1847). This prequel decentralises Jane's narrative as an empowering female heroine and focuses instead on the woman who has been unjustly remembered (or perhaps forgotten) as ‘Ber

How are the foundational Australian myths and narratives of colonial violence challenged in David Malouf's novel?

History of Colonial Racism and The "Lost Child" in Remembering Babylon