The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author

"The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author offers a wide-ranging and innovative account of the theory and practice of authorship in the second half of the twentieth century. Arya Aryan’s illuminating study presents a three-pronged approach to authorship: an account of the emergence of the ‘death of the author’ debates in French theory in the 1960s; the influence of novels of the 1950s and 1960s by writers such as Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, and Vladimir Nabokov on those debates; and a consideration of the way that, in the wake of high theory and high postmodernism, novels by Rushdie, Coetzee, and Mantel re-work an ethics of authorship in a globalised context." (Professor Andrew Bennett, Bristol University)

The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

The Late Style of Borges, Beckett and Coetzee as Postmodernist Cynics,

Stories that Voices Need to Tell: A Review of It’s All in My Head

Women’s Suffrage Has Not Started Yet: Review of Radical Women at Durham Book Festival

A Review of Epidemic Empire, Colinialism, Contagion, and Terror