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Ally Jane

New York/ London

Bringing you the latest book news and views from the Continuum Literary Studies team in London and New York

Interests: books, publishing, literary studies, literature, shakespeare, beckett, religion, comics, romanticism, theatre studies,

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Reading New India in the Pink City: Jaipur Literature Festival 2013

Emma Dawson Varughese, author of Reading New India: Post Millennial Indian Fiction in English talks about her new book and its recent launch at the inspiring Jaipur Literature Festival 2013. As you enter Diggi Palace, your eyes are awash with pink – pink banners, pink lanterns and swathes of pink... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency

By Thomas Docherty This great post appeared on our Bloomsbury Philosophy blog last week and we thought you may all be interested as well. In it, we look at how Docherty traces the history of confessional writing in order to develop his philosophy of transparency and argue that transparency as... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2013 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Happy Birthday C. S. Lewis

The literary themes featured in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Continue reading

Posted Nov 29, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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The Greatest Literary Moustaches!

It’s Movember and we love a good literary moustache. So much so, we’ve put together a collection of our all-time favourites! From the Walrus to the Mexican, and the Handlebar to the Horseshoe, it seems there is no end to the amount of creative facial topiary in the literary world…... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Dracula in Criticism

Dracula has attracted the attention of a remarkable breadth of critical and theoretical approaches over the past 50 years. These range from the most orthodox of 1970s Freudian interpretations to the acerbic historicist rejections of psychoanalysis characteristic of the 1990s, and encompass the intellectual shifts that have blurred the boundaries... Continue reading

Posted Nov 8, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Ewan Fernie discusses The Faerie Queen

Ewan Fernie is the editor of our new book Redcrosse: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today's World – a new form of liturgy based on Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queen. In the following extract from the Introduction to the book, Ewan talks about how powerful The Faerie Queen is today,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Beckett and Death in the Journal of Beckett Studies

The Journal of Beckett Studies have been very kind to us lately - first, this review of Beckett and Phenomenology, and now this excellent article and review of Beckett and Death: As Barfield and Tew note in their insightful critical foreword to Beckett and Death, it is almost unbelievable, given... Continue reading

Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Redcrosse: book launch on 17th November, Coventry Cathedral

We're delighted to announce that we will be launching our fantastic new book Redcrosse on Saturday 17th November, after the accompanying performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company, at Coventry Cathedral. All those who are attending the performance are invited - so do pop along for a drink and to hear... Continue reading

Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Beckett and Phenomenology reviewed in Journal of Beckett Studies

We are delighted with this excellent book review for Beckett and Phenomenology (and all-round excellent piece of writing on Beckett and Philosophy) by Russell Smith in the Journal of Beckett Studies. Continue reading

Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Blockbuster Feminism: Peyton Place

(Grace Metalious rejected the formal studio photograph publishers provided choosing instead, a photo by local New Hampshire photographer Larry Smith for the book jacket of Peyton Place - 1956, Larry Smith, Laconia Evening Citizen) In December 1956, a few months after the publication of her novel Peyton Place, Grace Metalious... Continue reading

Posted Nov 2, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Zombie London in 28 Days Later

We discuss the literary and cinematic depiction of Zombie London in 28 Days Later and key literary writers.... Continue reading

Posted Oct 31, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Val McDermid: Series or Standalone?

Val McDermid talks about writing a series of crime books vs standalone crime thrillers Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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“Isn’t it Every Girl’s Dream to be Married in White?” - Angela Carter’s Gothic Bride

Angela Carter’s Bridal Gothic Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Dressing up on Halloween

The most popular contemporary venue for costuming and disguise in the masquerade and fancy dress traditions is Halloween. This ritual but informal festival has become a representation of North Americanness, both for new immigrants and in places where North American culture is transplanted and marketed. Halloween has transcended its ethnic... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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The Vampire: the most enduring of all gothic monsters

Our second Halloween inspired blog post of the day comes from Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present by Clive Bloom. Taking you on a journey of gothic awakening, Clive Bloom leads the reader through every aspect of this horror genre – from the haunted landscapes of... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Ian Rankin talks about becoming a crime writer

Ian Rankin talks about becoming a crime and thriller writer. Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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A new name and face!

You'll have noticed that we've had a bit of an identity change! Continuum Literary Studies is no more and we've now rebranded as Bloomsbury Literary Studies. Although we are sad to say goodbye to Continuum, we are delighted to say hello to our new Bloomsbury name! For the last year... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Our 2013 Catalogue!

I am delighted to announce that the new Bloomsbury Literary Studies catalogue, now also including The Arden Shakespeare and Methuen Drama, has published! You can read it online here. As you will have noticed, for the first time this catalogue is coming out under the Bloomsbury name instead of the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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BFI Filmstore Event: The Creative Screenwriter - Workshop and Book Launch

Monday October 29th, 6.15 pm - 8 pm + book signing Creativity is increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It's no longer enough to follow standard writing techniques - becoming a first-class screenwriter demands not only command of craft, but understanding how to unleash and harness creativity.... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Royal Shakespeare Company perform Redcrosse

Saturday November 17th, 7.30pm, Coventry Cathedral 'How do we think about identity in ways that don't reflect anxiety, fear of the other, uncritical adulation of our past and all the other pitfalls that surround this subject? The Redcrosse project manages to negotiate these difficulties with immense imaginative energy and honesty:... Continue reading

Posted Oct 4, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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A new history of the American bestseller

Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers, edited by Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith, offers a thorough and timely examination of American popular literature, from Charlotte Temple (1794) to The Da Vinci Code (2003). The first book of its kind, Must Read surveys the history of the American bestseller but also... Continue reading

Posted Aug 9, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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The persistence of detection: ‘reading the clues, reading the world, reading the detectives among us’

We are delighted to announce the publication of our new book Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot. Edited by Peter Baker and Deborah Shaller, Detecting Detection converges writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa to connect occasions of the detective plot... Continue reading

Posted Jul 24, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Cataloguing the Output of a Literary Legend: Jon Wise on the Works of Graham Greene

By 1949 Graham Greene was an internationally renowned writer. The Heart of the Matter had sold over 300,000 copies in its first three years of publication. The iconic The Third Man was about to hit the big screen. The same year, no doubt aware that his literary legacy should be... Continue reading

Posted Jun 29, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Johnny Depp and The Rum Diary

I came across a fantastic interview with Johnny Depp in November 2011 edition of Vanity Fair and I had to share it with you. Johnny Depp and Hunter S Thompson's friendship has been documented in great detail, but I didn't realise that Johnny Depp had discovered the long-forgotten (by Thompson)... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our new book Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, edited by Julian Murphet and Mark Steven. The book brings together a superb set of critical essays to examine Cormac McCarthy’s esteemed post-apocalyptic novel, The Road. Editors Julian Murphet and Mark Steven... Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies

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