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What is the correct way to appreciate art and specifically the art of the pop song? This is the question at the heart of Magnus Mills's 2017 novella The Forensic Records Society which reads like an absurd comic parable of how men (specifically), repeatedly fail to appreciate art and reduce even the most inoffensive acts of creativity to dysfunctional bureaucracies. This paper briefly discusses how the book tackles aesthetics, community, gender and commodity fetishism and outlines its uncanny parallels with Adorno's Sociology of Music (1976). Most significantly, the argument put forward here is that this deceptively brief and simple novella is truly an artfully-constructed postmodern performative text – a work of histiographic metafiction which manipulates time, evades period setting, and questions historical certainty; a concrete-poetry inspired novella that deploys mimetic cover art, musical allusions, numerology, nominal characterization, melodic repetition and affirmative character arcs to replicate, and pay homage to, the subject of the book – the iconic 7-inch three-minute pop single. The conclusion asserts that The Forensic Records Society is an intermedial text that ironically benefits from the perpetual online distractions of the internet and pop music, thus providing a novel 21st century reading experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the 1926 short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," by D. H. Lawrence is presented. It explores the plot, which focusing on a young boy named Paul, who discovers that he can predict the winners of horse races through riding his toy horse, and his relationship with his father. The author mentions the the short story parallels to the tradition of a fairy tale.

The author discusses the book "The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories." Topics include the theoretical approach to adaptation of the short stories by novelist D. H. Lawrence, the five film adaptations of the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," and the short film "The Blind Man," by Matt Clegg.

The article presents the Chapter Three of the book "The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories," by Jason Mark Ward. It discusses the genre and film adaptation "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter," by Robert Burgos, which conveys main themes and events of the short story by of Lawrence, focusing on adaptation as fluid text and the potential of the story to attract mythological interpretation due to its creative translocation to Old West.

The article presents the Chapter Two of the book "The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories," by Jason Mark Ward. It discusses the adaptation of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums," by Mark Partridge, the critical accounts of the rich genealogy of the text, and its importance for Lawrence as it was based on real events and people close to his family life.

An introduction to the book "The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories," by Jason Mark Ward is presented.

The article presents the Chapter One of the book "The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories," by John Mark Ward is presented. It discusses the fidelity-based approaches of authors Jane Jaffe Young and Louis Greiff to film adaptations of short stories by Lawrence, the monographs "D. H. Lawrence on Screen: Re-visioning Prose Style in the Films of "The Rocking Horse Winner," Sons and Lovers, and Women in Love," by Young, and "D.H. Lawrence: 50 Years on Film," by Greiff.