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Month: July 2018
Pinocchio on Stage and Screen
Knocking Pinocchio into shape, or how to domesticate an unruly puppet: Stefania Ciocia on the drive towards narrative, moral and familial tidiness in Collodi’s text and its adaptations
Brontë 200
As we mark the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth, Sally Minogue sets her work in its cultural context – and in the social media world of 2018.
Stefania Ciocia looks at Pinocchio
Crossing boundaries with Pinocchio: Stefania Ciocia meanders through matters of language, culture, genre and authorship with the world’s most famous puppet
The Happy Prince
‘Both Sides Now’: Sally Minogue and Stefania Ciocia give alternative views of Rupert Everett’s film about Oscar Wilde, ‘The Happy Prince’.
In America, no one can hear you scream
Guest blogger Parker Lancaster marks the 4th of July by looking at ‘Democracy in America’, the classic 1835 work from Alexis de Tocqueville, and at democracy in America today.