I find the process of actually writing fiction to be like some sort of mysterious alchemy. You have a plan and then what actually comes out is completely different.
Tag: Literary criticism
The Chore of the Text – Robert Boucheron
This essay by Robert Boucheron is also featured in Issue Two of Porridge, available for purchase here. Robert Boucheron grew up in Syracuse and Schenectady, New York. He has worked as an architect in New York City and since 1987 in Charlottesville, Virginia. His short stories and essays appear in Bellingham Review, Fiction International, London Journal…
The Haunted Present: Using the Past as an Emotional Context – Kat Hausler
Photo by Daniel Wander on Pexels Kat Hausler is a graduate of New York University and Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was the recipient of a Baumeister Fellowship. Her debut novel Retrograde was recently published by Meerkat Press. She writes and translates in Berlin. The Haunted Present: Using the Past as an Emotional Context In James…
Reconfiguration and Recovery in Brenda Iijima’s Palimptext, revv. you’ll-ution – Heather Sweeney
Image via Max Pixel Heather Sweeney currently lives in San Diego where she teaches writing and yoga. Some of her other work appears or is forthcoming in Bad Pony, Moonchild, The Hunger, La Vague, Bombay Gin, dusie, and Shantih. Reconfiguration and Recovery in Brenda Iijima’s Palimptext, revv. you’ll-ution Because it is difficult to decipher. Artificial…
The use of machines in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ – Dong Liu
Dong Liu is a postgraduate in British and American Literature from Beihang University in Beijing. She is interested in fiction, psychology and cross-cultural communication. The use of machines in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ In Death of a Salesman, the most successful of Arthur Miller’s plays, Miller insightfully foresees the negative effects that the…
Derek Walcott, humour, and the postcolonial epic – Georgia Tindale
Georgia Tindale is currently studying for an MPhil in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge, having completed her undergraduate degree in English with Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She also edits Porridge alongside Nora and Kitty. Derek Walcott (23 January 1930- 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who received the Nobel Prize…
What is a Wolf? A text on the relationship between writing and animals – Fergus Doyle
Fergus Doyle is currently studying a masters in Literature and Modernity at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in subjects prefixed by ‘post’, such as postmodernism, post-humanism and post-truth. What is a Wolf? A text on the relationship between writing and animals It is on long winter nights such as these, when the…
Is the celebration of quality television a type of cultural elitism? – Amelia Nicholson
Amelia Nicholson is a film graduate and aspiring screenwriter interested in the rhyme and reason behind storytelling. Is the celebration of quality television a type of cultural elitism? It can, and has been argued that ‘quality television’ represents the upper class equivalent of contemporary excellence in visual entertainment akin to the divide between literary fiction…
Does Tarantino’s use of Django, a lone, vengeful hero, offer a productive discourse in thinking about slavery in the contemporary moment? – Caitlin Stanway-Williams
Caitlin Stanway-Williams has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham and is about to begin her MA in Creative Writing. So far she has specialised in surreal poetry, focusing on reworking Greek mythology in her dissertation, but is planning on developing into novel writing during her masters year. Image credit:…
‘The clankless chain hath bound thee’: An exploration of metaphysical paradox and internal opposition in Lord Byron’s Manfred, A Dramatic Poem – Sadia Pineda Hameed
Sadia Pineda Hameed is a third year English Literature student at Cardiff University whose interests include Existentialism and exploring subjectivity in film and literature. Gustave Doré, Manfred and the Chamois Hunter, 1853 ‘The clankless chain hath bound thee’: An exploration of metaphysical paradox and internal opposition in Lord Byron’s Manfred, A Dramatic Poem Much of Lord…
The relationship of astrology with Roman state religion and practices – Kathryn Shaw
Kathryn Shaw studied Drama and Classical Literature and Civilization at the University of Birmingham, and is currently following a masters programme at KU Leuven university in Belgium. She has submitted her thesis on Brussels’ Toone marionette theatre, and has an interest in popular performance. An astrological clock in Prague. The Relationship of Astrology with Roman…
An exploration of camp aesthetics in Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and Alex Cox’s 2002 film adaptation, Revengers Tragedy – Georgia Tindale
Georgia Tindale is an Assistant Editor working in Amsterdam and recently graduated with an MPhil in Renaissance literature from Cambridge. Prior to Cambridge, she studied English with Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham where she founded Porridge in her final year. She is interested in a wide range of subjects including poetry, science writing, health…
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