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5 ways to (un)teach the canon
Read more: 5 ways to (un)teach the canonAnnelies Van Assche explores five innovative ways to challenge the dance canon and expand beyond Eurocentric narratives.
Austerity Bites: Two 1980s British Road Movies
By Ieuan Franklin Where are the films being made today about ‘Austerity Britain’ that combine social realism and humour, as in The Full Monty (1997)? In my article for the Journal of British Cinema and Television last year I looked…
Call for Papers: Oxford Literary Review – Overpopulation
Global ‘overpopulation’, considered the central environmental issue in the 1970s, became an almost taboo topic in the twenty-first century, often dismissed as drawing attention away from international capitalism as the primary cause of poverty and environmental destruction and at worst catering to forms…
Agricultural improvement and India
In the May 2015 issue of the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Eric Grant and Alistair Mutch explore the intertwined careers of Kenneth Murchison, surgeon, and Patrick Duff, General of the East India Company’s artillery in Bengal. Both men returned…
Guest Blog Post – Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying
In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun setting fragments of Plato’s narrative account of Socrates’s final days and death. Satie wanted the music to be ‘as white…
Review of Stephan E. C. Wendehorst’s book British Jewry, Zionism and the Jewish State, 1936–1956
The history of twentieth century British-Jews, Stephan E. C. Wenderhorst’s book shows, offers valuable insights to the understanding of British history. In his extended review of the book, Arie Dubnov examines the way in which Wenderhost’s book, which he characterizes…
Gender and Family in the History of Christian Missions
The April 2015 issue of Studies in World Christianity is largely based on a handful of the many papers presented at the 24th meeting of the Yale–Edinburgh Group on the history of missions and world Christianity, held at New College,…
Wordsworth’s ‘Song for the Wandering Jew’ as a Poem for Coleridge
Heidi Thomson’s essay in the April 2015 issue of Romanticism considers how Wordsworth’s poem, “Song for the Wandering Jew” resists classification, particularly given its inclusion in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads. Thomson argues that “the poem was a deflected…
Postcolonial Springs – a special issue of CounterText
“In its breadth of contributions by scholars and writers with a distinguished background in their respective fields, Postcolonial Springs will serve as an informed platform for debate across scholarly, political, cultural, and activist fronts. These urgencies – foremost amongst them the realities…
William Morris’ Synthetic Aeneids
Jack Mitchell (Dalhousie University) addresses William Morris’ Aeneid translation of 1875 and explains in his article, William Morris’ Synthetic Aeneids: Virgil as Physical Object that “a key theme of Morris’ overall artistic creed, namely the need to make ideas concrete…