By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of…
Category: Language and Literature
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…
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…
Language and Literature
A Q&A with Nataša Kovačević, author of Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe
Tell us a bit about Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe The book analyses cultural narratives…
Singing in a choir recently I was lucky enough to experience some intense moments, and less lucky in my attempts…
By Catherine Riley and Lynne Pearce We were completing the edits on Feminism and Women’s Writing: An Introduction at the end…
It is with some trepidation, but also with a great sense of urgency, that we present a modest collection of…
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
By Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of…
By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…