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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…
Genre Recall
Paul Taylor-McCartney, University of Warwick, discusses Genre Recall; the function of memory and identity in selected dystopian texts and…
Brexit seen from Shakespeare’s King John
2016 marks the 800th anniversary of the death of King John and the 400th anniversary of the death…
Dickens, Daumier and the Man of Law
Gary Watt looks at forms of the legal profession at the start of the Age of Reform (1820–1920) as…
Reading as Art
Simon Morris examines the relationship between reading and art. He proposes a new method of making art via…
Woolf’s atom, Eliot’s catalyst, and Richardson’s waves of light: science and modernism in 1919
Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the…
One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile
Alicia Borinsky discusses how writers and artists in exile face challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of…
The Economics of Metonymy
Konstantinos P. Kavafis–known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy–has been internationally recognized as an important poet…
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel…