Ellic Howe’s ‘The Documentary Weapon’ and Forgery in Muriel Spark’s The Bachelors (1960)
Beatriz Lopez explores connections between the PWE’s use of forgery in wartime propaganda campaigns and Spark’s later interest in the practice…
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“Jangling caterwauls”: Muriel Spark and the scrambler telephone
Beatriz Lopez explores Spark’s wartime use of a secure telephone and considers the device’s later disturbing reappearance in her novel The Hothouse…
Muriel Spark and the Ethics of Deception: a didactic approach to black propaganda
Beatriz Lopez finds traces of wartime moral dilemmas in Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Following the closure of the PWE…
Discarding history for mythology: Muriel Spark’s mythologizers
Beatriz Lopez explores how Muriel Spark’s foremost mythologizers employ WWII myth-making techniques to impose their delusional understandings of the world on…
Public Event: PWE research seminar, 27 June 2019
Readers in the North East of England (and further afield) are very welcome to attend our first research seminar, on…
Masters of Deceit: Introducing #SparkQuoteoftheWeek
Beatriz Lopez introduces a new series exploring Muriel Spark’s fictions of deception Most critics have identified The Hothouse by the East River (1973)…
Muriel Spark and plausibility
Beatriz Lopez finds traces of Spark’s wartime service in the PWE in two novels deeply concerned with the appearance of truth…
The Political Warfare Executive – what’s in a (cover) name?
Principal Investigator James Smith on Whitehall secrecy and the names used to conceal PWE operations One of the initial issues that this…
