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Category: Language and Literature

Language and Literature

Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 11, 20228 min read5 Views

It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.

Ancient History

Five things you (probably) didn’t know about crossroads

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 11, 20224 min read26 Views

Bill Angus tells us five things you (probably) didn’t know about crossroads.

Language and Literature

Shakespeare Virtual Issue

posted by Teri Williams April 11, 20221 min read31 Views

To celebrate the birth month of William Shakespeare, we have curated a special Shakespeare Virtual Issue comprising seven articles and…

Language and Literature

Why should we care about endangered languages?

posted by Helena Heald April 6, 202211 min read107 Views

In this extract from the introduction of his new book Linguist on the Loose, Lyle Campbell explores why and how…

Literary Studies

Q&A with Patrick O’Connor

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 6, 20227 min read56 Views

Q. Tell us a bit about your book A. Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned is really…

Literary Studies

Poetry and the Dream of a Gift without Return

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 4, 20227 min read59 Views

“The gift—what we call “the gift” and “giving”—appears to have at least two distinct functions, and one would be hard pressed to decide between them.”

Language and Literature

“Wonderful, Rewarding & Harrowing” – Linguistic Fieldwork & Me: An Interview with Lyle Campbell

posted by Helena Heald April 1, 20229 min read187 Views

In this exclusive interview, renowned linguist Lyle Campbell discusses his career in linguistic fieldwork, the topic of his new book,…

Cultural History

Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan

posted by Teri Williams December 14, 20215 min read169 Views

By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…

Language and Literature

Arthur Conan Doyle: Writing the Life

posted by Daniel Miele November 15, 20217 min read169 Views

by Douglas Kerr There are dozens of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and one of…

Language and Literature

A Life in Textbooks

posted by Daniel Miele November 8, 20216 min read102 Views

by Laurie Bauer An Introduction to English Lexicology is my fifth textbook published with Edinburgh University Press. The first was…

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