The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller

By: Truth in Fiction: how to layer stories with ideas culture places and texts.
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  • The Matterhorn is for writers and curious minds from author and academic Dr. Kathleen Waller. Each week in this new season, Kathleen shares a chapter of her serialized novels - A Hong Kong Story & An Interpreter in Vienna - and uses it as a catalyst to discuss the layers of literature and how you can use these in your own writing. The Matterhorn mission is to bring books and texts to life through an interdisciplinary and international approach as well as help writers take risks and create from knowledge. Follow on Substack to receive posts with links, extra media & transcripts as well as to join the conversation - https://thematterhorn.substack.com/

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  • The Apartment Ellipsis in Fiction | Episode 53

    The Apartment Ellipsis in Fiction | Episode 53
    Sep 17 2024

    Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

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    A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

    Keywords:

    * The Apartment Ellipsis

    * Apartments in Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

    * Apartments in An Interpreter in Vienna

    * Chronotope, everyday life, city culture, layers of the city, identity creation…

    * Hope

    Considerations for your work:

    * How do your characters interact with their domestic spaces? Are they spaces of their creation or are they at odds with them? Are they safe or dangerous places?

    * To what extent do the interior domestic spaces in your fiction reflect culture? Consider the culture of the setting as well as other cultures the characters may bring into that space.

    * How does the apartment living space offer a way to understand at once your character(s) within it and the city in which it resides? How does the rest of the building affect the individual?

    Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.

    Texts:

    * Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

    * The rest of the references are listed in my work which I read from; free download here from HKU Scholars Hub

    * Kafka - Before the Law

    * My lecture at Pratt: From Theory to Fiction



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    35 mins
  • Vienna in Fiction | Episode 52

    Vienna in Fiction | Episode 52
    Sep 3 2024
    Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!https://thematterhorn.substack.com/ A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.Keywords:* City as text* Layers of the city* The urban everyday* Vienna, complicated history* Vienna, iconic places* Vienna, utopia and reality* Architectural Uncanny and the Ghostly City* Cities as reflections of their literature and cultureConsiderations for your work:* Reflect on choices to include pastoral or urban settings in your fiction. What unique elements does the city environment offer?* How can you develop and play with the layers of the city in your fiction? Whether a real or imagined urban place, how do the literary, cultural, and historic layers shape the experience of your characters?* What further understanding of a city does the concept of the Architectural Uncanny and Ghostly City develop in your fiction? How might literary responses that are modern or postmodern emphasize these aspects?* Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.Texts:* The City as Text (on The Matterhorn)* The Culture of Everyday Life (on The Matterhorn)* To Walk Alone in the Crowd – Antonio Muñoz Molina* The Layers of the City – Antoni Jach* The Arcades Project — Walter Benjamin* Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino* Vienna’s Haunting Third Man Theme (NYT)* Vienna History Timeline* A View on Cities: Vienna’s Ring Road* Vienna - world’s most livable city (Euronews / Smithsonian)* Vienna’s ‘gay pedestrian lights’* Wien.info on the Ferris Wheel* Vienna and the Viennese* Vienna: How the city of ideas created the modern world, Richard Cockett* Danubia: A Personal History of Hapsburg Europe, Simon Winder* Empress Sisi* Social Justice and the City - David Harvey* The Architectural Uncanny - Anthony Vidler* Vidler, Anthony. “The Architecture of the Uncanny: The Unhomely Houses of the Romantic Sublime.” Assemblage, no. 3 (1987): 7–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/3171062.* Cheung, Esther M. K., Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam, eds. Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Hong Kong University Press, 2011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1xwcs9.* Urban Mediations conference in Hong Kong this December (also interesting overview on the link) Get full access to The Matterhorn: truth in fiction at thematterhorn.substack.com/subscribe
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Fashions in Fiction | Episode 51

    Fashions in Fiction | Episode 51
    Aug 20 2024

    Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

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    Keywords:

    * The language of clothes

    * Chronotope

    * Clothing can show:

    * Place, culture

    * Identity – i.e. subcultures, gender

    * Traditions (vs. change)

    * Politics

    * Weather

    * Time period

    * Functionality

    * Power relationships / class, societal position, work



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    31 mins
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