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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.
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Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
Fr John Morrison: defender of an island’s cultural heritage and faith
Neil Bruce on the inspiration behind his new featured article in The Innes Review.
This Deleuzian Century
Ian Buchanan kicks off our celebrations of the centenary of Gilles Deleuze's birth.
Children, Charity and Magazines
A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
AVANT-GARDES INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA!
Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?
Studying (and Struggling) Abroad: Reflecting on British/American “Transmigrations”
Vaughn Scribner on Dr. Alexander Hamilton, transatlantic voyages past and present, and finding connection in far-flung places.
Arguments against the Scottish visa are overblown
The author of The Politics of Immigration in Scotland discusses the benefits of a regional immigration policy for Scotland.
Lord Kelvin and the Apocalypse: the striking convergence of religion and cosmology
The surprising role of scripture in developing scientific theories of the universe in 19th-century Scotland.
The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them
The editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies introduces the new special issue.
A canonization that caused a diplomatic rift in Europe
Eduardo Ángel Cruz investigates the overlap between the political and the spiritual in canonizations of the Catholic Church