Charles Holdefer

Reading from Mr. Boots and Blast Magic

Charles Holdefer

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From “Discourses of Sobriety” to Deadpan Comedy: Christopher Guest’s Musical Trilogy

Charles Holdefer

Christopher Guest’s fake documentaries about music are marketed as entertainment but they also raise serious questions about music history and the problem of authenticity. Working as a collaborative writer, director and actor in This is Spinal Tap (1984), Waiting for Guffman (1996) …

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Book Reviews

D. R. Baldwin, Charles Holdefer

Abstract The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story, Ann-Marie Einhaus (ed.) (2016) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 250 pp., ISBN: 9781107446014, p/bk, £18.99 George Saunders: Critical Essays (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century), Philip Coleman and Steve Gronert …

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Introduction: Pastoral Sounds

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe

Echoes of Arcadia come in many shapes and forms. The resilience of pastoral resides not only in its broad appeal but also in its mutability. Pastoral has been variously described as nostalgic or forward-looking, politically suspect or potentially radical, a version of …

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“Poo-tee-weet?” and Other Pastoral Questions

Charles Holdefer

The idea of pastoral sounds in literature brings with it a particular set of problems. Beyond the straightforward (and fairly reductive) consideration of sounds associated with the shepherd’s life—that is, a thematic sample—what makes a sound “pastoral?” If an aural locus amoenus …

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1. Pastoral Sounds / 2. Histories of Space, Spaces of History

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe

introduction du dossier Histories of Space, Spaces of History dirigé par Matthew GRAVES et Gilles TEULIÉ

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The Modernist Short Story and Varia

Andrew Armstrong, Michael Basseler, Suzanne Bray, Αmy Bromley et autres

King Lear directed by Deborah Warner, 19 November 2016, The Old Vic Theatre, London

Charles Holdefer

Few ceremonies are more dispiriting than inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That might sound like an odd, even nonsensical observation to begin a review of King Lear, but it is necessary to keep in mind that baby boomers …

“The Savage’s Romance”: The Culture of Pastoral in the Poetry of Marianne Moore

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe

A Pastoral Place in Language? The Poems of Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe

Pastoral Motifs in British Social-realist Cinema: Illusions and Disillusions in the Quest for a locus amoenus

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe

Knights among shepherds: courtly pastorals in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1596)

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe