Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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On ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration
January 21, 2022Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
December 7, 2021Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
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Sally Rooney: In search of the Marxist novel
December 6, 2021In Rooney’s work, the political manifests itself in the depiction of alienated relationships alongside explicit political statements.
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Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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Recalling Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) and his ‘Language of the Third Reich’
October 7, 2021Victor Klemperer is remembered for his seminal study of the language of the Nazis.
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Caravaggio at 450: A maverick Realist painter in the Baroque era
September 27, 2021Caravaggio is most frequently considered a Baroque artist. How true is this?
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History as upheaval and progress enters stage with novelist Walter Scott
August 13, 2021Born 250 years ago, Walter Scott showed another kind of historical novel is possible from the ones we see today.
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‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize
July 30, 2021Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.
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