PopLit

The Byronic hero is arguably the most enduring literary archetype of the Romantic period, originating from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and then developed across his subsequent works.

Once Upon a Time… … I started PopLit… When I signed up for the MA in Modernities, I had a specific idea of what the programme and its assessments would look like.

Beware!

In this post, I would like to reflect on Textualities 2026, the mini-conference I had the pleasure of organising alongside my cohorts from the MA in Modernities and the MA in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College Cork.

Although a bit late to the party, I am finally responding to this seminar.

[This article is part of The Reject Project, and as such, it has been co-reviewed by the other co-authors and co-editors of The Reject Project.]

Over Christmas, while in Switzerland to visit my family, I found myself in a car with my sister (driving) and her boyfriend, who asked me if I knew a new viral Italian singer called TonyPitony.

This post includes spoilers for Wicked and Wicked For Good.

Last Wednesday, two events which seemed completely unrelated occurred in my life: my sister failed her first driving test, and in the afternoon, I attended a talk from Dr Alan Gibbs on the presence of naturalism in the novels of Paul Auster.

This is a work of fiction.