Laura van den Berg: What’s So Great About Normal? On Unconventional Interiors in Fiction (January 2016)

Laura Van den Berg’s lecture explores unconventional interior landscapes in fiction—such as coldness, disorientation, indifference—while also considering works that appear to be fueled by different, non-emotive energy sources entirely. Texts discussed include Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, Yoko Tawada’s The Naked Eye, and Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar.