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Textual Commentary: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel.’
In this extract, which is from the first page of Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’, we are introduced to protagonists Josephine and Constantia in the days after their father has died. The extract sets the tone for their worries and the friction in their relationship as they disagree on certain… Continue reading
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Textual Commentary: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Garden Party.’
This extract is from the final two pages of Katherine Mansfield’s short story, ‘The Garden Party’. The narration follows Laura (the protagonist) as she visits her neighbours house to deliver a basket of food after one of them has died. This happens on the same day as her family’s garden party, and the extract explores… Continue reading
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Theme and Style in Chapter 13 of James Joyce’s Ulysses: ‘Nausicaa.’
This essay explores the theme and style of ‘Nausicaa’, the thirteenth episode of James Joyce’s Modernist work Ulysses. The chapter is set at 8pm on Sandymount Strand in Dublin, on June 16th 1904. A group of young girls are at the beach with one of the girl’s four-year-old twin brothers, and another’s baby brother. Among… Continue reading
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Animal Alterity and Anthropomorphism in ‘Lamb’ and ‘Being a Beast’.
This essay explores animal alterity and anthropomorphism in Charles Foster’s Being a Beast and the 2021 film, Lamb. ‘Alterity’ can be defined as the otherness or difference that animals have when compared to humans,[1] whilst anthropomorphism is “ascribing any human attribute to something other than man”.[2] Both terms feature prominently in animal writing, and are… Continue reading
about the author – Callum mcgrath
Recent English graduate of Loughborough University, passionate about film and literature. On this site, I post my academic essays and related writing.
Recent Posts
- Sit Down with a Screenwriter – A conversation with Nick Willis
- ‘1984’ or 2023? How applicable is Orwell’s vision of technological surveillance to today?
- Book Appraisal: See Me Rolling by Lottie Jackson (2023)
- The Different Attitudes to Motherhood in 1890s Literature.
- How Heroism is Defined in War Narratives.