Reasons to Remain
| Aran Ward Sell | Blog & Writing |
Category: Academic
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I have a new article out, my first for the Los Angeles Review of Books. It’s on the author and illustrator Mervyn Peake, one of the most important writers in my world. Peake’s final novel, Titus Alone, is widely considered a failure due to the dementia suffered by its author. Some Peake disciples, however, maintain…
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Early in my first semester as W. B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature at the University of Notre Dame I was invited to audit the graduate seminar Returns of the Aesthetic, taught jointly by my mentor Dr Joseph Rosenberg and Dr Yasmin Solomonescu. A generous interpretation of “auditing” transpired: rather than sitting shtum in the…
Reasons to Remain 