Pansy Duncan is Lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University, Auckland, where she writes on media affect and aesthetics. Her articles have been published in a range of venues, including PMLA, Cultural Critique, Textual Practice, Screen, and Film Quarterly, and her book, which maps the occluded emotional life of postmodern cinema, is forthcoming from Routledge in late 2015.
Pansy Duncan
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Love Story
Romeo and Juliet, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, Portrait of a Lady, Death in Venice: love stories—sublime, tormented, star-crossed or otherwise—are the bread and butter of the Western literary canon. Yet while still a thematic staple of high school English courses and comparative literature curricula, love rarely makes the pages of the New York Times’s […]
