Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…
Category: Literary Theory
Welcome to July! This month we are doubly celebrating as, not only does OLR keep embracing the ripe age of…
At just the age of 34, Bill Readings sadly died in a plane crash. He left behind a legacy of…
Continuing our celebrations of OLR’s 40th Anniversary and its widespread impact, this month we are highlighting Jacques Derrida’s ‘Let…
Last month we celebrated the writing of Hélène Cixous, both as part of Women’s History Month and of OLR’s…
Welcome to March, where we are not only celebrating OLR’s 40th Anniversary, but also Women’s History Month. In honour…
Welcome to February, where once again we are delving into the work of Jean-François Lyotard. A thinker and a…
Oxford Literary Review (OLR) founded in 1977 by Ian McLeod, Ann Wordsworth and Robert J. C. Young, is now celebrating its…
By Ivan Callus Recent work across literary theory has placed questions of scale in the foreground of critical debate. What…
Global ‘overpopulation’, considered the central environmental issue in the 1970s, became an almost taboo topic in the twenty-first century, often…