Areas of Interest
The interrelation of image, music and text in English modernist narrative. The modernists’ experimental use of musical structures (e.g. fugue, leitmotif) as devices for plotting and characterization.
The literary impact of Wagnerian opera, as a spatio-temporal melting pot for the visual, the acoustic and the verbal (Gesamtkunstwerk).
Ancient and modern uses of myth. Myth as other discourse, double-plot, intertext.
The construction of gender in ancient Greek thought. Gender and narrative.