The other day, I received an email. It went straight into the special folder of my inbox where any emails containing the keyword ‘Swift’ are automatically programmed to go; this is my desperate attempt to try and maintain some compartmentalisation of my professional life, since I do actually also have to maintain a normal full-time workload on top of repeatedly telling the media why All Too Well (10 minute version) is a masterpiece (which, don’t get me wrong, I love to do, because it is).
Month: January 2024
English Literature (Taylor’s Version): Seminar 8
In Seminar 8 of English Literature (Taylor's Version), titled 'Haters Gonna Hate: The Unlikeable Protagonist', we looked at the antihero, or deliberately unlikeable protagonist, in literature and culture. We tried to answer the question: what does it mean for Swift to self-identify as an antihero, in the twenty-first century? In order to do this, we looked at groundbreaking incarnations of the antihero in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) - subtitled 'A novel without a hero' - and Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (1853). [Click above image to read more]
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