Tag: Roland Barthes

Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature?

Posted on: October 15, 2019

Channel: Arts and Culture, Humanities and Social Sciences

Who is allowed to make things up? What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? The second lecture in the series, Thinking Between the Lines: truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism explores writing by women.

A philosophy of everyday things

Posted on: December 5, 2011

Channel: Humanities and Social Sciences

Steven Connor talks to Brian Dillon

In the last ten years the humanities has become obsessed with stuff – things, ephemera, paraphernalia and possessions. Writer and critic Brian Dillon speaks to Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London, about the curious magic of everyday things.