The Symposium is a dialogue about love, or eros to use the Greek term, and it has a lot of explicit celebration of homosexual relations between men. The last section I wrote is actually the middle one (Part 2), which discusses Shelley's and Benjamin's respective engagements with Plato's Symposium. That said, the book has also evolved a lot since I finished my PhD. I say this because sometimes people would think that I was doing creative writing, as in writing a novel or poetry, but for me it was all about new and boundary-breaking forms of doing literary criticism. It is, after all, creative critical writing - so the focus is on writing criticism. The programme allowed me to be creative and experiment with my methodology. So it was really pioneering in that respect. This monograph started life as my PhD thesis, which was the first to be awarded a PhD in Creative Critical Writing from University College London. How did this monograph come about? What led you to write it now? She tells us more about her creative approach to literary criticism and how that led to this work. College Postdoctoral Associate Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi has published Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic, a monograph that brings the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley into critical conversation with the German Jewish theorist and critical thinker Walter Benjamin.
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