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The Rooster & the Pearl: A Little Aesopic Odyssey

Fables are very old and flexible. This is substantiated by a juxtaposition of several versions of the fable of The Rooster and the Pearl, which may be called a “metafable”, since it is a fable about fables.

Gert-Jan van Dijk • March 16, 2017

A Literary Shroud: Embroidering Derek Walcott’s Omeros

A bird stitching an epic: intertextuality and metaliterature in Derek Walcott’s Caribbean epic Omeros.

Amaranth Feuth • March 02, 2017

Figure Fossils Playing Pretend

A persistent myth about the history of palaeontology holds that fossils were believed to be the result of creative forces in the earth, until it was finally shown that they are actually the remains of living organisms. Time to dismantle this story.

Robbert Striekwold • June 16, 2016