Between The Purple Passages https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art* The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction Atonement Revisited: On Writing and ‘The Briony Question’ Why I’m a Christian Hierarchy in Renaissance Drama: Epicoene and The Changeling Close Reading: Opening of ‘The Miller’s Tale’, Geoffrey Chaucer “Harlotrye” and “Moralitee”: Sexual & Other Violence in Chaucer’s ‘The Miller’s Tale’ and ‘The Reeve’s Tale’ Understandings of The World, Matter, & Relations Between the Human and Non-Human in Medieval and Post-Modern Literature Close Reading: Autobiography of Eve by Ansel Elkin Close Reading: Arachne, trans. by William Caxton Report: The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, A Portugal  Human and Non-Human Entanglements in Mid-Late Medieval English Literature The Impact of the Idolatry of Marriage on Female Relationships Within the Church Liberty in John Milton’s Paradise Lost Foreigners and Foreignness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Dutch Church Libel (1593) ‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello A Woman and Her Dog: The Experiences of Confinement and Liberation in Virginia Woolf’s Flush  Reading Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ against Michel Foucault’s ‘What is An Author?’ My 2025 in Books* Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025) Translation as Metamorphosis in Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower’s Versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023) Man, Animals and Power: The Covert Dynamics between Man and Animals in Ted Hughes’ ‘The Dove Breeder’  Frankenstein and Early 19th Century English Political Thought Review: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Granta Books, 2023) Categorising Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Summer Will Show Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (first published by Roberts Brothers, 1868) Reflection: Rajaa Alsanea’s Girls of Riyadh and Western Cultural Imperialism Close Reading: ‘Sonnet 45’, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Mary Wroth Art, Literature, and Christian Anti-Intellectualism Titanic and Female Christian Thought ‘Of Envy’ in Christian Womanhood When Biblical Modesty isn’t Biblical: A Critique of the Evangelical Understanding of the Issue of Women’s Modesty On Studying English Literature Reading Alien (dir. by Ridley Scott) Against Barbara Creed’s ‘The Monstrous Feminine’ “A Rich Man’s Whimsy”: Approaches to Rewilding in Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border  Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974) Review: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press, 2022) Review: Vanya by Simon Stephens (2023) Augustine, Genesis 1 and 2, & Female Subordination ‘An Act of Love’: The Representation of Bodily Autonomy and Free Choice in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’ Review: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Fig Tree, 2024) Views From Sixteen: The Books That Impacted Me The Most Between Sixteen and Eighteen About