365 research outputs found
Autumn Voices: guest blog
No full textWilly Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Glasgow University, writes a piece in appreciation of Autumn Voices which will be published in May this year
Autumn Voices: guest blog
No full textWilly Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Glasgow University, writes a piece in appreciation of Autumn Voices which will be published in May this year
All Personality is Performance
No full textAdapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books.
At the centre of this taut, darkly comic thriller is Lise, an enigmatic young woman who is compelled to travel alone to an unnamed city.
Professor Willy Maley, English Literature, University of Glasgow considers the author and protagonist of The Driver’s Seat: a “study of self-destruction”
Imagining Circles
No full textWilly Maley reviews a new collection from Cambridge on The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, ed. Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015
Far distant, far distant: Orwell, my father & Catalonia
No full textReflections on the current situation in Catalonia with reference to George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and James Maley's experiences with the International Brigades in 1937, dramatized in the play, From the Calton to Catalonia, by John & Willy Maley
Spark life: the biographies of Muriel Spark
No full textIn the last of his blogs on Muriel Spark in her centenary year Professor Willy Maley looks at the ways in which her biographies of other writers shaped her own writing and affected how she responded to life-writing as memoirist and as biographical subject
Hearing voices: Muriel Spark on the radio
No full textIn our recent vote to find Scotland’s favourite book-to-screen adaptation no-one could beat the highly successful adaptation of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, but Spark’s work has resonated in book form - and on screen - for decades. In fact, it was another medium – the radio - which fascinated and inspired her work, as Willy Maley investigates
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