Lisa Hana Delaney, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:28:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lisa Hana Delaney, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Klara and the Sun: A Binary of Human and Machine  https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-hana-delaney-klara-and-the-sun-a-binary-of-human-and-machine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-hana-delaney-klara-and-the-sun-a-binary-of-human-and-machine Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4992 Ishiguro’s latest work is one that meshes dystopia with science fiction, narrated from the point of view of Artificial Friend Klara. It has a distinct vagueness to its worldbuilding that speaks of the necessarily limited worldview of a machine, and the sparing glimpses into the history of a fictional world which privileges genetically edited children…

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]]> 4992 The Problem of Truth in Medieval English Verse: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Troilus and Criseyde https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-hana-delaney-the-problem-of-truth-in-medieval-english-verse-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-and-troilus-and-criseyde/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-hana-delaney-the-problem-of-truth-in-medieval-english-verse-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-and-troilus-and-criseyde Thu, 04 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4489 ‘In the hierarchy of values by which most historians live, truth stands higher than fiction, and prose higher than verse’: where, then, does this leave the works considered so seminal to our understanding of the medieval era, when such works are often in verse? Historian Gabrielle Spiegel considers prose to be ‘a language of fact’,…

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