A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
When monarchs inspired poets, and poetry crowned a queen — the birth of England’s literary Golden Age. From The Professor’s Desk “Before the theatre gave voice to the common man, poetry gave shape to the crown.” “An age of ink and intrigue, of verses whispered in velvet halls and sung beneath the weight of a […]
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The Turbulent Close of the Middle Ages: War, Plague, Dissent, and Change From The Professor’s Desk As the Middle English period neared its close, England stood on the threshold of profound transformation. The final centuries of the Middle Ages were marked by a convergence of historical forces that reshaped the nation’s political, social, and cultural
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Poetic Visions, Religious Voices, and The Drama of the Middle English Mind From The Professor’s Desk Beyond Chaucer’s towering influence, the later Middle English period witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literary voices — each contributing in distinctive ways to the evolution of English thought and expression. This was an age when knightly ideals, moral allegory,
Middle English Period 1066-1400 AD Part 2 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Flowering of Middle English Literature From The Professor’s Desk In any history of English literature, certain figures stand as defining voices of their age — and in the Middle English period, none looms larger than Geoffrey Chaucer. Born in the early 1340s, Chaucer lived
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From The Professor’s Desk Introduction to the Middle English Period (1066–1480) The Middle English period marks one of the most profound transitions in the history of the English language and its literature. The year 1066 stands as a watershed — the Norman Conquest led by William of Normandy altered the linguistic, political, and cultural landscape
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From Indigenous power to postcolonial punchlines, gender rebellions to literary reinventions—Australia writes with bite now. By ABS, who believes that modern Australian fiction has learned to throw boomerangs made of metaphor—and they rarely miss. f early Australian literature was written on the backs of convicts and mid-century fiction was dipped in despair, then modern AusLit
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Migration, Memory, and the Global Gaze on African Pain—Exported, Exoticized, and Finally Explained From ABS, Who Believes that exile can write better novels than comfort ever will. Some left by choice.Some were pushed.Some boarded planes, only to find that customs didn’t check for grief, and memory couldn’t be declared. This is the African literary diaspora:
AfriLit-5. Diaspora Diaries: When African Writers Boarded Planes but Never Left Home Read More »
Colonialism, Culture Clashes, and Why Chinua Achebe Had Every Right to Be Annoyed From ABS, Who Believes stories survive empires, but sarcasm survives history. It begins, as most tragic tales do, with someone arriving uninvited. Long before PowerPoint presentations and TED Talks about “cultural sensitivity,” colonial powers marched into Africa with swords, Bibles, and the
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