by Chris Townsend The Irish philosopher George Berkeley was not a contemporary of William Wordsworth — he died in 1753,…
Category: Literary Theory
Cultural Studies
Werewolves and Wildness: The Open Graves, Open Minds special issue of Gothic Studies
The first issue of Gothic Studies published by EUP is also the first ever issue devoted to werewolves. In the…
Language and Literature
A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation
by Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known…
The November 2018 issue of Derrida Today publishes the keynote addresses from the 2018 Derrida Today conference in Montreal. One…
CounterText guest editor Norbert Bugeja shares some interesting thoughts about the special issue, Afterward/Afterword, and the important, complex questions it…
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Ben Jonson Journal. Read on and learn more about the history and impact…
Language and Literature
You Don’t Know Jacques: Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and the Denial of Deconstruction
Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…
Welcome to November where, very sadly, we’ve reached the last in our blog series for OLR’s 40th anniversary. To go…
Annotation has become one of the most popular themes in the reception and editing of literary (and other) texts. In…