The Modern Novel – Page 173

The Canon

Post author:tmn
Post published:3 November 2011
Post category:Canon

The Canon is one of the most controversial aspects of literary criticism. I think that goes without saying. Most of us were first introduced to it at school when we…

The Modern Novel or Why I Am Here

Post author:tmn
Post published:28 October 2011
Post category:The Modern Novel website

When I decided to do this blog, I vowed to myself that it would not be about literary prizes. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I am not particularly…

More on the Man Booker/Literary Prize

Post author:tmn
Post published:17 October 2011
Post category:Literary Prizes

When I set up this blog, I vowed that I would only touch peripherally on the literary prize bandwagon/farce and here I am writing my fourth post and my fourth…

Man Booker

Post author:tmn
Post published:8 October 2011
Post category:Literary Prizes

I was surprised to find in my morning Guardian an interview with Stella Rimington not on spying but on the Booker Prize and in the main section of the paper,…

The Nobel Prize – the winner

Post author:tmn
Post published:6 October 2011
Post category:Literary Prizes

Well, at least neither Bob Dylan nor Philip Roth got it. It is definitely the turn of a poet to get it but I suspect that Tomas Tranströmer will not…

The Nobel Prize

Post author:tmn
Post published:5 October 2011
Post category:Literary Prizes

As this is my first post on this blog, my aim was to talk a bit about my new website The Modern Novel but that will have to wait till…