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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
Studies in Social Interaction with Steve and Olcay
Series Editor Steve Walsh interviews Olcay Sert about his book Social Interaction and L2 Classroom Discourse – a finalist for the 2017 AAAL First Book Award. Hi Olcay, could you tell me what led you to write this book in…
Women’s History Month
We’re mid-way through March and here at Edinburgh University Press we are still celebrating Women’s History Month (see Stefanie Van de Peer’s blog about International Women’s Day as well as our various Tweets @EdinburghUP). To continue our celebration and promotion…
OLR 40th Anniversary – Hélène Cixous
Welcome to March, where we are not only celebrating OLR’s 40th Anniversary, but also Women’s History Month. In honour of these two events, we are sharing the work of Hélène Cixous. An academic, philosopher, literary theorist, playwright and feminist,…
International Women’s Day: Celebrating the Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary
By Stefanie Van de Peer Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary is publishing this month, and it’s a significant time for a book of this nature, with today being International Women’s Day. Several of the films discussed in the book…
Ford Madox Ford, music and the First World War
My research treats music as a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the First World War was a crucial event for modernist writers, profoundly changing the fabric of social life. Ford Madox Ford served on the front line and wrote…
Negotiating Theory and Practice in Television Production Hierarchy: Mumble-gate
Sunday 19th of February 2017 saw the launch of the BBC’s most recent big budget television drama SS-GB, a dystopian vision of Britain under Nazi occupation. With it, came the re-ignition of the debate surrounding mumbling actors and unintelligible dialogue…
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000
Where is the twenty-first century British novel headed? The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 answers this question in the light of three recent literary developments. The first is aesthetic: early twentieth-first century novelists are going beyond conventional realism, and in…
Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 2
By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Volume 7 of Victoriographies, a journal of Victorian writing in the long 19th century, 1790-1914. <Read Part One The point of this…
OLR 40th Anniversary – Jean-François Lyotard
Welcome to February, where once again we are delving into the work of Jean-François Lyotard. A thinker and a critic, Lyotard was interested in the relationship between image and text, so it comes as no surprise that he examined…