Literature

  • ‘Opening a door on a misty landscape’

    ‘Opening a door on a misty landscape’

    How the first chapter of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends constructs the conceit of the text Note: This analytical close reading was originally written in 2021 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for my Undergraduate Diploma in English Literature: Literature Past and Present at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. It is…

  • ‘London is illimitable’

    ‘London is illimitable’

    How Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway represents the city by superseding its bounds Note: This analytical close reading was originally written in 2021 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for my Undergraduate Diploma in English Literature: Literature Past and Present at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. It is reproduced here in full…