https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/1046 2026-07-16T11:37:23Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148089 Title: When theatre brings the inanimate to life Abstract: Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone met up with Theatre Anon’s Liliana Portelli and Pierre Stafrace to discuss ancient and contemporary puppetry. Puppetry is an ancient performing art, with diverse origins and traditions all over the world. Theatre Anon started using puppets in their very first production – Voltaire’s Candide, in 1994. The company draws upon eastern and western traditions of puppetry, from shadow puppets (for example, in Agamemnon in 2006) to tabletop puppets and everything in-between. They have spent decades researching and experimenting. [excerpt] 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147750 Title: The shadow : poems for the children of Gaza, by Ahmed Miqdad and John P. Portelli [Book review] Authors: Bonello Rutter Giappone, Krista Abstract: In their volume The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza, the poets Ahmed Miqdad and John P. Portelli offer what they call a ‘poetry of resistance’ (2024: 7), the fruit of their long-distance collaboration and solidarity. This is a friendship forged in adversity, as they both contend with the ravages of the body and spirit through war (Miqdad) and cancer (Portelli).; For the most part, the poetry (particularly Miqdad’s) eschews metaphor: the images are literal, realised. As the ‘blood mixes with the flour I carry’ (AM, ‘Blood and Flour’), we are taken beyond the visual, to the tactile, and physical. [excerpt] 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147370 Title: CounterText : volume 12 : issue 1 Authors: Callus, Ivan; Corby, James Abstract: - Table of Contents:; Editorial; Kevin Hart : The CounterText Interview. At the Margins of Mystery - Kevin Hart and Robert Farrugia; Guest Editors’ Introduction: Frame/Framing - Paweł Kaczmarski and Marta Koronkiewicz; This is going to be about everything; or, Framing the Limits of the Post-Literary - Ivan Callus; Organic Unity in the Age of the Free Market: The Pragmatist Tradition and the Question of Frame - Adam Partyka; Rimbaud Framing Kiefer Framing Joyce - Rod Mengham; One Moment, Two Frames: The Peripheral Coast - Dragana Rankovic; Easels Warped My Flesh; or, Could Ansel Adams Win the World Press Photo of the Year? - Mateusz Zaboklicki; Framing Yourself: Autofiction and Form - Zuzanna Sala and Łukasz Zurek; Gordonalia: an excerpt from Situations - Ansgar Allen; Notes on Contributors 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147358 Title: Editorial [CounterText, 12(1)] Authors: Callus, Ivan; Corby, James Abstract: It feels almost inevitable that the previous number of CounterText, a special issue on the theme of Omission/s, should be followed up with a number centred on Frame/Framing. What to include when not omitting, and how, in that act, to (re)frame criteriologies, conceptualities, ideas, practices, and more, becomes a theme that carries both consequence and continuity across the journal’s pages. There is, in fact, a case that could be made for reading the two issues together, even though they are each their own individual project. Each emerges from separate CounterText roundtables, with the one on Frame/Framing taking place at the Faculty of Letters in the University of Wrocław, 24–25 January 2025 and convened by Paweł Kaczmarski and Marta Koronkiewicz, this number’s guest editors (the prior issue is linked to a roundtable that took place at the University of Naples, Parthenope, in June 2024). 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z