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Year: 2017

Atlantic Literature

6 Books for TV Lovers

posted by Carla Hepburn December 14, 20176 min read2482 Views

By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming…

Language and Literature

The Rosetta Stone

posted by Carla Hepburn December 12, 20175 min read2185 Views

By Jesse Schotter For the hordes of selfie-snapping tourists at the British Museum, one objects attracts more attention than any other:…

James Benning's Environments
Film and TV

James Benning: A Cinema of Our Times

posted by Emma at EUP December 7, 20176 min read1761 Views

In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond….

The Qur'an and the Just Society
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The Qur’an and the Just Society

posted by Emma at EUP November 27, 20174 min read2773 Views

I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…

Cultural Studies

OLR 40th Anniversary – Roland Barthes & Robert Young

posted by Rebecca Wojturska November 15, 20173 min read2069 Views

Welcome to November where, very sadly, we’ve reached the last in our blog series for OLR’s 40th anniversary. To go…

History

John Ray and Archives of Natural History

posted by Rebecca Wojturska November 13, 20172 min read1741 Views

English naturalist John Ray was born in November 1627. Generally regarded as one of the earliest English parson-naturalists, he is…

Law

Privacy and Data Protection – Beyts v Trump International Golf Club

posted by Teri Williams November 8, 20176 min read2415 Views

In April 2017, small claims case Beyts v Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd created a press extravaganza, however, as…

Language and Literature

Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions

posted by Teri Williams November 7, 20174 min read2027 Views

A special issue of journal, Paragraph, guest edited by Elissa Marder, creatively re-imagines Shoshana Felman’s groundbreaking 1977 volume of Yale…

History

Children’s Gothic Fiction – Top 10 Must Reads

posted by Carla Hepburn October 31, 20176 min read6515 Views

By Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley While researching my forthcoming book, Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic, I have read a lot of scary stories…

Language and Literature

Explanatory Annotation in the Context of the Digital Humanities

posted by Teri Williams October 27, 20173 min read1782 Views

Annotation has become one of the most popular themes in the reception and editing of literary (and other) texts. In…

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