Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
Category: Literary Theory
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…
In 1963, Jean-Luc Nancy tackled the subject of generational silence in his article ‘A Certain Silence’ (republished in OLR in…
CounterText Volume 3.2 (August 2017) is a special issue entitled The Poetic, and contains a contains a wide-ranging interview with…
Marcel Proust once said, “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners…
Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…
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…