New Writing in Britain: How Do We Define the Contemporary?

New Writing in Britain: How Do We Define the Contemporary?

By Aleks Sierz Parody is a literary genre that always means so much more than it says. I’d like to start by talking about one example of parody, a book by Christopher Douglas and Nigel Planer called I An Actor (written under the pseudonym of Nicholas Craig), which is a work of fiction, a satire [...]

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Participatory Arts and the Agile Citizen

Participatory Arts and the Agile Citizen

By Chris Baldwin This is an extended version of a speech given by Chris Baldwin to The European Cultural Foundation at the University of Leiden in November 2006 (Meeting Title: Artistic Explorations in Cultural Memory) 2005 marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Part of Don Quijote, a work hailed by the [...]

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