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The Importance of Artifice
Ruth Robbins discusses the use of ritual and the structuralist theories of language in The Importance of Being…
Mirroring the “Long Reformation”
Cathy Shrank examines how printed English translations of Erasmus' colloquies reflect the different phases of the “Long Reformation.”
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics
Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Jane Austen’s novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political…
Romeo and Juliet with Chinese characteristics
Julie Sanders discusses the relationship between Shakespearean texts and the idea of social justice in China today. Image…
Renaissance Woman
Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families…
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
Ken Gelder discusses hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became an…
My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay discusses his childhood, the institutional care system, family and the meaning of home. Lemn Sissay MBE…
British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime
Beryl Pong discusses British late modernism’s relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the…
An Introduction to Reading Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to…
Let no man write my epitaph
For centuries elegy has been instrumental to Irish culture and its self-expression. Alison Morgan discusses the elegies both…
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