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Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms
Read more: Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reformsby Senthorun Raj Do I feel proud? This was a question I reflected on recently while gathered with several sweaty […]
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‘Don’t pump up the emotion’: The creation and authorship of a sound world in The Wire
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around the city’s drug trade. The show is considered to be more in touch with the world it portrays than previous…
War and Christmas
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! [Merry Christmas!] is a picturebook written by two Latvian refugees while displaced during the Second World War. The book, with its vibrant pictures and personal representation of the exile experience challenges existing children’s narratives of Christmas, war and…
Guest Blog – Organised Crime In Scotland
Organised crime in Scotland has been characterised (one could say sensationalised) as a blight and a cancer. Despite the best efforts of the Scottish Serious Organised Crime Group Mapping Project, pinning down the extent, cost and nature of organised crime…
From the Archives – Translation of Children’s Literature in the Soviet Union: How Pinocchio Got a Golden Key
As well as providing entertainment and a tool for developing children’s reading skills, children’s literature is also a powerful instrument for conveying world knowledge, shaping identities, values, cultural expectations and accepted behaviour. In our featured article this week, Natalia Kaloh…
The Red Menace
The article “British Conservatives, the Red Menace and Antiforeign Agitation in China, 1924–1927” in our journal Cultural History looks at how British conservatives used the events in China as proof of the Red Menace in order to reinforce demands about…
From the Archives – Persius’ Prologue and Early Modern English Satire
When compared to Juvenal or Horace (the two most prominent figures of Roman satire in sixteenth and seventeenth century England), Persius’ impact on early modern satire has usually been considered slight. In the article, Persius’ Prologue and Early Modern English…
Monsieur Desnoyer – Mapping Choreography. 18C Dance Design
![‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer’, Anthony L’Abbe, A New Collection of Dances [London, c.1725], plate 74, appearing in MONSIEUR DESNOYER, PART 1: 1721–1733, DOI: drs.2013.005969](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/spanish-dance.jpg)
Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps, turns and entrechats, a virtuoso vocabulary runs throughout the solo. Appearing in the article, “The Celebrated Monsieur Desnoyer, Part 1:…
Spotlight on….Translation and Literature
Founded in 1992, Translation and Literature is a tri-annual which is published in March, July and November of each year. It is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on English Literature in its foreign relations. Translation and Literature publishes critical studies and…
From the archives – What is comparative literature?
Certain works of literature call especially clearly for a comparative approach, through reference to other works or through establishing comparative structures such as parallel plots. Collectively, these works can be denoted by the noun phrase “comparative literature”. In our featured…
Inverlochy and Lochindorb Castles – A Comparative Study
Iain Anderson and Piers Dixon’s paper, in Architectural Heritage, looks afresh at the relationship between the two castles to establish how legitimate long-standing comparisons are. To read the full article at Architectural Heritage go to