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Year: 2018

Language and Literature

Top 5 Representations of the Weather in Shakespeare’s plays

posted by Carla Hepburn December 10, 20184 min read2547 Views

By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the…

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Cultural Studies

Canadian Modernism at the Present Time

posted by Teri Williams December 4, 20186 min read1107 Views

Here, Brian Trehearne expands on his inspirations, and the wider context behind his article in Modernist Cultures (November 2018). My…

Hussein Ahmad Amin
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Translating ‘The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide’ – a labour of love

posted by Emma at EUP November 26, 20186 min read1419 Views

When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…

Language and Literature

A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation

posted by Rebecca Wojturska November 23, 20184 min read1033 Views

by  Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known…

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Literary Theory

Derrida and the New: Deconstruction, Speculative Realism, and New Materialism

posted by Teri Williams November 19, 20186 min read1929 Views

The November 2018 issue of Derrida Today publishes the keynote addresses from the 2018 Derrida Today conference in Montreal. One…

Atlantic Literature

Frederick Douglass and Ten Scottish Worthies

posted by Carla Hepburn November 15, 20187 min read1234 Views

Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century.  The former slave…

5 Things You Never Knew About Spinoza
Philosophy

5 Things You Never Knew About Spinoza

posted by Naomi Farmer November 11, 20186 min read1675 Views

Spinoza: a renegade thinker whose life was far from boring. From stab wounds to spiders, how many of these strange facts did you know about Spinoza?

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Philosophy

Primary and Secondary Qualities: More Trouble than You’d Think!

posted by Naomi Farmer November 6, 20186 min read1015 Views

Size and shape versus sound and colour: discover how primary and secondary qualities have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, and how Thomas Reid offers us a way forward.

Cultural History

A history of American horror film in 10 images

posted by Emma at EUP October 31, 20181 min read1073 Views

In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus…

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British History

Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner

posted by Emma at EUP October 29, 20185 min read1140 Views

Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…

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