Writer’s Bio: Rachel Fox
Current studies:- PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University
--- My thesis considers the different modes through which women in contemporary West Asian literature are presented and present themselves: oral, written, and visual.Previous studies:-
-MA in Contemporary Literary Studies (Lancaster University)
-First Class Honours - BA in English Literature (Lancaster University)Particular Interests:-
-Inter-media relations
-Female writers / Feminist readings
-Post-colonial writers / Post-colonial theory
-Contemporary Gothic writing and visual media
-The fantastic/ fantasy writing
-Victorian children's literatureCategories
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Tag Archives: reading
All the Books I’ve Read in 2014
Amir and Khadil, Zahra’s Paradise Atef Abu Saif, The Book of Gaza Radwa Ashour, Spectres Margaret Atwood, Surfacing Jo Baker, Longbourne M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Max Barry, Lexicon Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 … Continue reading
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Apocalypse and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Kermode’s ‘apocalyptic types’:- -Empire -Decadence and renovation -Progress and catastrophe Cloud Atlas –Empire – Ewing’s colonial themed nineteenth-century narrative. –Decadence – Frobisher’s richly indulgent narrative (pre WW-II). –Renovation – Lusia Rey’s period of industrial growth/change in 1970s America. –Progress – … Continue reading
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Books I Read in 2013
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmad Brick Lane, Monica Ali Crash, J. G. Ballard A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, Julian Barnes Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament, S. G. Browne … Continue reading
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‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’: Part Three
Part Three: Conquering the ‘Nightmare’/ Claiming the Crown To grow up, the girls must overcome the ‘nightmare’ represented by the tyrannical, false Queen: the instigator of chaos and/or violence. Sally Adair Rigsbee writes that ‘[b]elieving in the reality of the … Continue reading
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‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’: Part Two
Part Two: Arriving Both Alice’s and Lucy’s dream/story cannot be contained within one single texts, but spreads, for Alice, across two texts, and, for Lucy, to the other stories in The Chronicles of Narnia. Similarly, the text within these stories … Continue reading
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‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’: Alice’s and Lucy’s Imaginative Journeys in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Part One: Setting Off The first chapter of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is entitled ‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’[1] and it is this premise of an impossible journey made by a young child that recurs consistently within children’s fiction into the present … Continue reading
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