Essays on Culture and Literature
Writings on The Arabian Nights
‘Do the tales of the Arabian Nights have resonance for audiences today?’ An essay review on the RSC’s production of Arabian Nights for The Guardian Review Section, , Saturday 9 January 2010, Page 18.
‘Travelling Text’, essays reviews on The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights translated by Malcolm Lyons, with Ursula Lyons
Penguin, 2008 and ‘The Arabian Nights’ in Historical Context: Between East and West edited by Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum
Oxford, 2008, London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 24, 18 December 2008, Pp 15-16.
‘Il Mare delle storie: I viaggi de Le Mille e una notte’: Talk originally given in Crotone, Italy, 2006 published in Fogli di anglistica, Anno II, n. 3-4 2008 Flaccovio Editore Spring 2009.
Other Essays
‘Who Can Shave An Egg?: Foreign Tongues and Primal Sounds in Mallarme and Beckett’, in Reflections on Beckett -A Centenary Celebration, eds. Anna McMullan and S.E Wilmer,
The University of Michigan Press / Ann Arbor 2009, ages 53-81.
Introduction to An Essex Attitude, poems by Adrian May , published by Wivenbooks, 2009.
‘Beastly Tales’, Part 7 of Great Fairytales published as booklet in series on Fairy Tales, Guardian, October 2009.
‘Once Upon A Time In Rossillion’, programme note for All’s Well That Ends Well directed Marianne Elliot, National Theatre, 2009.
‘Other Cinderellas’, programme essay for ‘La Cenerentola’, Garsington Opera Programme 2009, pages 54-56.
‘The Silence of The Siren’, programme essay for Rusalka, Glyndebourne Opera Programme 2009, pages 92-97 (adapted from From the Beast to The Blonde (Vintage).
‘Baba Yaga and Other Hags’: review of Dubravka Ugresic, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson‘s latest novel, London Review of Books, Volume 31 Number 16, 27 August 2009, pp. 23-24.
‘Ventriloquism’, review essay of ‘Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam’, ed. Daniel Karlin, in London Review of Books ‘Afterword:Mirror-Readings’, in The Poetics of Recognition, ed. Marilyn Lawrence and Philip Kennedy, Peter Lang, 2009.
‘Who Can Shave an Egg? Foreign tongues and primal sounds in Mallarmé and Beckett’, in Reflections on Beckett A Centenrary Celebration, ed. Anna McMullan and S.E. Wilmer, Michigan University Press, 2009: 53-81. Adapted in 1. Times Literary Supplement, February 29 2008 2. Longer version: Raritan Spring 2008.
‘Out of an old toy chest’, in Journal of Aesthetic Education, special edition ed. Ellen Handler Spitz, Summer 2009 (43.2).
Introduction to The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, London, Folio Society, 2008.
‘Ghosts and Daemons: The Revival of Myth and Magic’, Presidential Address, 23 October 2004, printed in Proceedings of the Virgil Society 26(2008).
‘Travelling Text’, essay about the Arabian Nights, in London Review of Books, December 18 2008.
‘The Compass of Story - Eastern Bearings in Western Literature’, in What is the West? (proceedings of conference), Stockholm, 2008.
‘True Stories and Translated Selves’ (The Sebald Lecture) In Other Words Vol. 31 (This is the house journal of UEA’s Brit centre for Lit trans). Also published Times Literary Supplement. ‘Imaginary Passages: The Metamorphoses of Europa’, Third Text Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 5, September 2007. Pp 487-498.
