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Classic literature shows maladaptive daydreaming is not a new psychological trend

A recent study provides evidence that intense and disruptive forms of fantasy have been documented in classic fiction for ...
The Irish Times

A novella approach to an undervalued literary form

Here is a proposition for you: choose any author you love, find out where they live, break into their house when they are away on holidays, and loot through the drawers of their writing desk. There, ...
Publishers Weekly

BOA Editions: Recognizing Literary Forms in Need for 35 Years

For 35 years, the nonprofit poetry publisher BOA Editions has been a national force, releasing work from heavyweights like Li-Young Lee, Lucille Clifton, and Michael Waters, as well as up-and-comers ...
Fabula

Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theories

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled “Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theory” to be published at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in the Dying and Death Studies ...
The Stage

Theatre’s engagement with the literary form is to be celebrated, not scorned

Any play by Alice Birch, a firebrand of the imagination, is worth seeing. Every critic can tell you about the opening performances they’ve witnessed when they knew a modern classic was being born. For ...
The Conversation

Good literature can come in digital forms – just look to the world of video games

Dear Esther is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies. The Chinese Room Some years ago, tired of scrolling through Netflix in search of something we hadn’t seen yet, I suggested to ...