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Month: April 2015

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Cultural Studies

Guest Blog Post – Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 28, 20152 min read2020 Views

In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun…

British History

Review of Stephan E. C. Wendehorst’s book British Jewry, Zionism and the Jewish State, 1936–1956

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 24, 20151 min read1492 Views

The history of twentieth century British-Jews, Stephan E. C. Wenderhorst’s book shows, offers valuable insights to the understanding of British…

History

Gender and Family in the History of Christian Missions

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 22, 20151 min read2107 Views

The April 2015 issue of Studies in World Christianity is largely based on a handful of the many papers presented…

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Language and Literature

Wordsworth’s ‘Song for the Wandering Jew’ as a Poem for Coleridge

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 20, 20151 min read2149 Views

Heidi Thomson’s essay in the April 2015 issue of Romanticism considers how Wordsworth’s poem, “Song for the Wandering Jew” resists…

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Language and Literature

Postcolonial Springs – a special issue of CounterText

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 17, 20151 min read1739 Views

“In its breadth of contributions by scholars and writers with a distinguished background in their respective fields, Postcolonial Springs will…

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Language and Literature

William Morris’ Synthetic Aeneids

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 14, 20151 min read1988 Views

Jack Mitchell (Dalhousie University) addresses William Morris’ Aeneid translation of 1875 and explains in his article, William Morris’ Synthetic Aeneids:…

History

A watercolour of a stranded sperm whale from the late seventeenth century

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 7, 201552 sec read1796 Views

In their article from the Archives of natural history, Klaus Barthelemess and Ingvar Svanberg discuss a painting from a manuscript…

Language and Literature

Guest Blog – Beckett’s odd things

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals April 2, 20152 min read1701 Views

“What’s wrong with that bed, Joe?” — Samuel Beckett, Eh Joe (1965) There is something conspicuously odd about many of…

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