A Bibliography of Critical Studies dealing with the works and life of E. M. Forster published since 1975

Special issue of the PJES dedicated to E. M. Forster List of Contents “The Hotel Case”Queering the Hotel in E. M. Forster’s “Arthur Snatchfold” Athanasios Dimakis; “Where Is Your Home”? Spaces of Homoerotic Desire in E. M. Forster’s Fiction Dominika Kotuła; “Áh yoù sílly àss, góds lìve in woóds!” Queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism in For…[Read more]

The article aims at charting the position of Edward Morgan Forster and his works in contemporary English language culture. It presents various forms of adaptations of or responses to the works of Forster, concentrating on those which have been created since the writer’s death in 1970. The discussed material consists of approximately one hundred i…[Read more]

Jubilee issue of the Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw dedicated to E. M. Forster on the 50th anniversary of his death. Adaptation, Inspiration, Dialogue: Forster and His Oeuvre in Contemporary Culture Krzysztof Fordoński. Forster in Africa Evelyne Hanquart-Turner. Reading Forster’s Will Daniel Monk. 61 The Novels “Facing the Suns…[Read more]

The article offers an overview of book-length scholarly studies in the life and work of E.M. Forster published after the year 2000. Approximately 50 books have been considered, they are mostly books of which Forster, his life, and works are the primary subjects. The books are briefly presented and commented upon. They have been divided here into…[Read more]

Special E.M. Forster Issue of the Polish Journal of English Studies 3.2 / 2017

The present paper aims at a presentation of the issue of religion in ‘Maurice’ – both in the text of the novel and in its readings. Religion is one of the main forces which influence the social and personal life presented in E. M. Forster’s ‘Maurice’. Its place is quite naturally second to the influence of the law, and yet it is religious upb…[Read more]

E. M. Forster’s interest in emotions as well as in ways of expressing and suppressing them was an important theme of his essays. “Notes on the English Character” in which he presents the idea of “the undeveloped heart” are probably the best known of them. Forster finds “the undeveloped heart” characteristic of the British, especially men of the up…[Read more]

Artykuł poświęcony związkom angielskiego pisarza Edwarda Morgana Forstera z Polską. Na podstawie zachowanych materiałów omawia dwie wizyty Forstera na polskim terytorium i ich ślady w twórczości pisarza, zarówno we wspomnieniach i korespondencji, jak i tekstach publicystycznych, esejach i pogadankach radiowych. Druga część artykułu poświęcona jes…[Read more]

The article begins with a brief presentation of the presence of English tourists in Italy, starting from the tradition of the Grand Tour to the mass tourism beginning in the mid-19th century. One of the English tourists who arrived in Italy was Edward Morgan Forster. The article concentrates on the influence of Italy upon Forster’s oeuvre, d…[Read more]

The article discusses the influence of mass tourism, especially originating from Great Britain, upon Italy at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century as presented in the early fiction of Edward Morgan Forster, especially the short story “The Eternal Moment”. The article opens with a historical overview of the presence of British tourists in the…[Read more]

The article concentrates on two small and little known dramatic texts (pageants) written by E. M. Forster in the late 1930s entitled The Abinger Pageant and England’s Pleasant Land. The introductory part introduces the history of pageant in the early 20th century. The article presents briefly Forster’s earlier, mostly unsuccessful, dramatic exp…[Read more]

The article presents the operatic motives in the oeuvre of E. M. Forster. It concentrates especially on the scene in the opera house in Monteriano from ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread” but other allusions to various operas are also detailed. In Polish.

The volume intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary of E. M. Forster’s death. It consists of ten papers by various authors which deal with various aspects of Forster’s oeuvre, creating a new overview of his works from his novels, through his essays to his only opera libretto. An excerpt from review “This collection of essays edited by…[Read more]

This study presents the formative period of the English novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) with a special stress on the usage of symbolism in his early fiction. The book offers a new approach to Forster’s symbolism derived from the theoretical studies of Michael Riffaterre and his concept of symbolic systems – subtext and syllepsis. The author…[Read more]

The article discusses the typical structural devises of E. M. Forster’s fiction such as the use of self-imposed exile as the solution which replaces a happy ending.

The article attempts to recreate E. M. Forster’s personal mythology as based on the references to Ancient Greek and Roman deities present in his works.

The article offers a detailed examination of the way the screenplay writer and director of the movie ‘A Room with a View’ dealt with the symbolic patterns present in the original novel by E. M. Forster.