academic antics

I’m not sure whether Shaw would be pleased that I am writing about this, but I want to focus on why The Philanderer is such an enjoyable read. I know that Shaw wants his audience/readers to focus on the thesis of this play: marriage. But then again, why did he have to make it so…

Last Wednesday I found myself completely sucked into the RPG gamer world during Dr Ken Rooney’s seminar titled ‘A fine tale, all told, of true chivalric romance’: The medieval and renaissance romance traditions of Miyazaki and Martin’s Elden Ring. First of all, I would like to point out that I have not played the game…

What does AI have to do with literature? Don’t get me wrong it’s incredibly interesting and somehow and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, but where’s the link to literature? Following our seminar on AI and Transhumanism, I found myself reading a paper by Angus Fletcher who has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature. Fletcher…

Welcome to academic antics! This is an academic blog that will take you, the reader, on what I hope to be a captivating journey of ideas I come across whilst carrying out my MA in Modernities at University College Cork. My name is Marc Galdes, I am from Malta, and in 2023 I decided to…