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The promotion of international research, events and publications on E. M. Forster and his works. Contact: internationalemforstersociety@gmail.com Website: society.emforster.de YouTube: www.youtube.com/@I.E.M.F.S./streams

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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just under a week to go until the launch event for 'E. M. Forster's Legacy of Connection: Unseen Memorabilia'. Join us at Camden Archives (Holborn Library) on Tuesday 29th September, 6pm: bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/whats-on/em-...
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EM Forster's Legacy of Connection: Unseen Memorabilia
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney stages 'A Room with a View' - limelight-arts.com.au/event/a-room...
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A Room with a View - Limelight
E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel has been adapted for stage and screen many times over the years. Merchant Ivory famously turned it into a 1985 film starring Helena Bonham Carter. Now comes a new stage vers...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Camden Archives launches its exhibition on 'E. M. Forster's Legacy of Connection - Unseen Memorabilia' on Tuesday 29th September, 6pm - with talks by EMFS members Daniel Monk and Claire Monk!
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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some more light Forsterian reading perfect for the end of the holidays - paper from a conference about Elizabeth von Arnim about her encounters with E. M. Forster. #emforster #elizabethvonarnim www.academia.edu/172667679/E_...
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E. M. Forster An English Tutor of the Young von Arnims
The conference paper deals with the professional, social, and literary connections of Countess Elizabeth von Arnim and the English writer Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970). Forster came to Nassenheide...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Doug DeVita's adaptation will be published soon: www.broadwayworld.com/article/A-PA...
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA Stage Adaptation Will Be Published
Doug DeVita's new stage adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel will be celebrated with a talkback, live podcast recording, and book signing at The Drama Book Shop in New York.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For India's 79th year of independence, Treya Sinha reviews Forster's final novel: www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/ge...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Katherine Rundell evaluates AI in the classroom... 'To write is not just to transcribe the mind’s ideas; it’s a form of transformation, turning a nascent, half-built thought into something sturdier, tougher, sharper. [As] E. M Forster wrote: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”'
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The first review of my last book Forster Bibliographies is now published - pjes.edu.pl/articles/rev... - you can read it and (if you have not read the book yet) see if you agree. Just use the link at the end - the book is free Open Access. Or write your own review and let me know!
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Review: Krzysztof Fordoński, 2025. E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations – PJES
Polish Journal of English Studies is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars working in the literature and culture in English, as well as theoretical and applied linguistics.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sue Gaisford finds Colin Thubron channeling E. M. Forster in his ninth and latest novel, 'Passage': www.ft.com/content/7369...
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Passage by Colin Thubron — a mesmerising exploration of marriage and the mind
Set in the Valley of the Kings, this haunting novel shows the writer at the summit of his powers
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Re-reading EM Forster's 'The Life to Come': stories of love and desire mostly unpublished in his lifetime, released only after his death. They have an honesty his novels could only gesture towards. Essential for anyone who admires Forster: great writer, great humanist.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Forster features as part of the upcoming Bloomsbury Festival 2026: london-post.co.uk/bloomsbury-f...
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Bloomsbury Festival Announces over 150 events in Programme for 20th Anniversary Year - London Post
Marking its 20th year, Bloomsbury Festival is returning with a month-long celebration of local artists and organisations with over 150 events spanning theatre, music, exhibitions, literature and scien...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A new stage adaptation of 'A Passage to India' brings the novel's queer subtext to the fore: artsindependent.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Unearthing the Unspoken: How Doug DeVita’s ‘A Passage to India’ Drags Forster’s Queer Subtext Out of the Shadows
When E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India was published in 1924, it was hailed as a masterful, searing critique of the British Raj and the psychological chasm left by colonialism. Yet, beneath the rig…
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More on 'The Machine Stops' and how it accurately predicted the social isolation that is often tied to technological improvement: qz.com/fiction-that...
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20 works of fiction that predicted the future accurately
From surveillance states to social media addiction to engineered pandemics — the writers who got there first, what they saw that others didn't, and how close the resemblance has become
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Forster's 'The Machine Stops' adapted for the stage... www.boothbayregister.com/article/hear...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Jonathan Bate explores Forster's short "sequel" 'View Without A Room' in relation to 'Maurice' and other unpublished works:
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More thoughts on E. M. Forster
On closeted silence and an unwritten sequel
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A BBC radio dramatisation of a little-known experience from Forster's life...
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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
94 years ago E. M. Forster arrived at Cracow where he saw a game of chess with live pieces played at the Royal Castle of Wawel which he described in his essay "Chess at Cracow".
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The latest version of Forster and Benjamin Britten's opera gets a round-up of good reviews: www.newstatesman.com/culture/thea...
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Billy Budd's epic universality
A collaboration between three geniuses of different forms, this is truly Britain's greatest opera
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
E. M. Forster's old school opens up sixth form to female students: www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
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Leading Kent boys' school to teach girls at Sixth Form for fits time in history
The move will end a centuries' old tradition of being an all boys' establishment
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We missed the anniversary of Forster's death back on the 7th June - but someone else returned a long-lost piece of Forster-related ephemera just in time for it...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Peter Bradshaw describes the first cinematic adaptation of Woolf's second novel as something more like "E. M. Forster's [version of] 'Night and Day'"... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars
Woolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@johnattridge.bsky.social discuses character and culture in 'Howards End' in Volume 59 of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction - read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
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Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End | Novel | Duke University Press
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Rowan Davies reflects on the Forsterian concept of class in the transition from novel to big screen:
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Zadie Smith revisits Forster's 'Art for Art's Sake' in a lecture on making art in times of political crisis: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Art for Our Sakes | Zadie Smith
I wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
'Howards End' sits at #60 on The Guardian's new 100 Best Novels of all time: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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The 100 best novels of all time
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
E. M. Forster letters among several to be made publicly available in an upcoming digital archive, thanks to a partnership between Dorking Museum and @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
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EM Forster letters in new Dorking World War Two refugee archive
Letters from EM Forster are among those released in an archive about Dorking's work with refugees.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dimitra Karydi discusses 'the dissolution of social barriers' in the hotel in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread': hotems.enl.uoa.gr/the-dissolut...
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The Dissolution of Social Barriers in the Hotel of E.M. Forster’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread” – Hotems Project
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Polish Journal of English Studies @pjes-pase.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As usual we publish book reviews as preprints. Anna Kwiatkowska, from the University of Warmia and Mazury, reviewed for us the book "E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations" by Krzysztof Fordoński pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Forster's Adela Quested is the springboard for a collection of short stories by Indian author Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik: odisha.plus/2026/04/book...
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Book Review: In Search of Ms Adela Quested & Other Stories
Rabindra Kumar Nayak reviews Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik’s collection, exploring the intersection of Advaita Vedanta, postcolonialism, and the metaphysical self.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Born #OTD in 1863, Constantine P. Cavafy was admired and promoted by Forster both before and after his death. Today, his work is on the rise... www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
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Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
The writer Constantine Cavafy was largely unpublished in his lifetime, but was revered by artists. His archive and Alexandrian home are now on show for the first time
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Lawrence Jones dissects Forster's early 1920s letters to Hogarth Press:
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Girish Shukla details the relationship between Tukoji Rao III and E. M. Forster in India, 1921: www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/pe...
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Tukoji Rao III of Dewas Senior: The Maharaja Who Hired E.M. Forster as His Personal Secretary
E.M. Forster worked for an Indian Maharaja at 300 rupees a month. The story behind it is extraordinary., People, Times Now
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In this month's TMR from @modernistudies.bsky.social, Lily Martin at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social explores authentic panoramas in 'A Room with a View': modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/c...
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sophie Barling dives deeper into the source of the photographs procured by Lucy Honeychurch in 'A Room with a View': apollo-magazine.com/alinari-arch...
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View-finding in Italy
Established in 1852 by three brothers, the Alinari firm produced many of the oldest photographs of Italy. Sophie Barling visits its vast archive in Florence
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Just finishing up a paper on E M Forster and India for my reading and discussion club this evening. Reminding myself what a wonderful novelist he is. You should all re-read all of his novels and essays right now!
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#OTD in 1985, David Lean's adaptation of 'A Passage to India' won two Oscars, including Best Original Score for Maurice Jarre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5sW...
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Maurice Jarre winning Original Score for "A Passage to India"
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
@sophieratcliffe.bsky.social wins the 2026 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...
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Professor Sophie Ratcliffe Named as Winner of E.M. Forster Award | Lady Margaret Hall
The award, given out by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, recognises an outstanding writer from the UK or Ireland
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Weird Forster heading to Loughborough this July!
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Reece Beckett considers Merchant-Ivory's adaptation of 'Maurice' within the context of queer cinema: medium.com/counterarts/...
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The Best of British Cinema: ‘Maurice’ (1987)
James Ivory creates a queer cinema classic with his adaptation of EM Forster‘s novel
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The premiere of a new play inspired by Forster's 'A Passage to India' - news.etsu.edu/articles/bro...
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Broadway actor directs powerful ‘Passage’ at ETSU - ETSU News
ETSU’s 2026 Basler Chair Steve Maurice Jones directs “Passage,” a powerful exploration of power and perception, March 5-8 at the Martin Center.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Have you read 'Eliza in Chains'? 🧐
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
More interest in 'A Room with a View' - the Economic Times picks Forster's novel as one of February's "Books of the Day": economictimes.indiatimes.com/us/life/book...
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Book of the Day: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster — When romance challenges society’s rules
Book of the Day: A Room with a View stands out as a work that rewards thoughtful reading, charming and witty on the surface, yet profound in its emotional insight and social observation.
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Syed Ross Masood was born OTD in 1889. Forster first met and fell in love with Masood in 1906, but the feelings were not reciprocated. The pair nevertheless remained friends, and Forster dedicated 'A Passage to India' (1924) to Masood and their "17 years of friendship" #LGBT+historymonth
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Salman Rushdie returns to the time he spent at Cambridge and his meetings with E. M. Forster in the short story 'Late', published in the collection 'The Eleventh Hour': www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career
From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Wokingham Literary Society pairs Forster's 'A Room with a View' with L. P. Hartley's 'The Go-Between'... wokingham.today/wokingham-li...
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Wokingham Literary Society takes a good look at the view
A BOROUGH reading group will be taking an in-depth look at two novels this month at their next meeting.Wokingham Literary
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Lauren Mouat considers Santa Croce through Forster's (and Lucy's) eyes: www.theflorentine.net/2026/02/04/e...
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E.M. Forster + Santa Croce | The Florentine
"I’ve started to suspect 'A Room with a View' could be part of the problem of fetishizing Italy..."
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Humanists UK have put together education resources for primary school learners, including a profile on E. M. Forster (and his humanism):
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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The life of E. M. Forster can be a source of inspiration for all artists. This time it is a song inspired by Forster's love affair with Mohammed el-Adl. areconnoiter.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/d...
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Daniel Land
Daniel Land “Pearl Dady” Pearl Daddy (single 01-09-2026) This song is “inspired by the love affair between E. M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl, as described in Wendy Moffat’s biography of Forster.” &…
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Today is Virginia Woolf's birthday. On his close friend Woolf, Forster remarked that 'she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.'
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International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A new year brings new publications! Our member Maxime Petit has published his article "‘Propriety was re-established’ : hétérotopie, loi et transgression dans ‘The Other Boat’ d’E. M. Forster" in Les Colloques, Fabula: www.fabula.org/colloques/do...
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« Propriety was re-established » : hétérotopie, loi et transgression dans « The Other Boat » d’E. M. Forster
Cet article se propose d’étudier la nouvelle posthume d’E. M. Forster « The Other Boat » au prisme du concept foucaldien d’hétérotopie et d’interroger la manière dont l’espace du navire peut fonctionn...
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