Literature, literary criticism, Guernica, cinema and more
Pierre Wiktorin (Lund): Constructing a Distinct Other: Harry Potter and the Enchantment of the Future. From New English Review, Ibn Warraq on Jane Austen and slavery. Summer Reading: Should you read the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love?
From Eurozine, the re-transnationalization of literary criticism: Critical and public discussion of foreign literature in newspapers and magazines has traditionally served as a source of information and guidance not only for a broad readership, but also for "people in the business", for publishers and authors. When that discussion disappears, or loses its perspectives and becomes one-sided, this has consequences for the literary institution as a whole.
From TLS, a review of Guernica and Total War; La Guerra Civil en Euzkadi: testimonios inéditos recogidos por José Miguel de
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