Tag: Contemporary literature

• Speech Marks Blowing in the Wind

  

  Frankissstein (2019) by Jeanette Winterson and The Passenger (2023) by Cormac McCarthy don’t have much in common, except that they’re both entirely devoid of speech marks. Better literary scholars probably have deeper things to say about these two very sophisticated meditations on love, life and death, but having to teach literature to students who sometimes…

  E.T.

  April 25, 2026

  Essay

  Contemporary literature, Literary theory