In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of litera

History and literature seem to be losing ground in the contemporary world of electronic media, and battle lines have been drawn between the humanities and techn

The author blends her unique and well developed narratorless technique with a classic extension of a very ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures

She is eighty. Facing death, she considers her experiments with narrative, and with the narrative of her life. What is the purpose of the narrative she is creat