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Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town
Read more: Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile townThe authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town
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CounterText Special Issue: Afterward/Afterword
CounterText guest editor Norbert Bugeja shares some interesting thoughts about the special issue, Afterward/Afterword, and the important, complex questions it approaches. It is mid-May, a sunny afternoon in Bethlehem. I have arrived here from Ramallah, driving in the midday heat…
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Ben Jonson Journal Celebrates 25 Years
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Ben Jonson Journal. Read on and learn more about the history and impact of the journal from the editor, Richard Harp. History of the Ben Jonson Journal Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart met…
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10 Things to Count on when Working on Literature and Mathematics
By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of the stereotypical contrast between the fields: the rigour and exactitude of mathematics and its universal truths can be seen as…
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Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first scholarly edition of Marmion (1808), the second of Scott’s grand historical narrative poems, has recently been published and sets out…
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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 issue to marking “The Age of Grammatology”. In my contribution to this issue, Misreading Generalised Writing: from Foucault to Speculative…
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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 of migration – literature, film, and performance art – which highlight European Union’s neocolonial practices in relation to European history,…
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Finn Fordham on the Anatomy of Moments
Singing in a choir recently I was lucky enough to experience some intense moments, and less lucky in my attempts to think (again), about ‘moments’, the topic of my inaugural lecture, published in Volume 13.2 of Modernist Cultures. We were singing…
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The Long March of Feminism
By Catherine Riley and Lynne Pearce We were completing the edits on Feminism and Women’s Writing: An Introduction at the end of 2017 when something seismic, something transformational, began to happen. The exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s long history of sexual assault,…
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Intergenerational Desire in/and Children’s Literature
It is with some trepidation, but also with a great sense of urgency, that we present a modest collection of excursions into the representation of intergenerational desire in children’s literature. For it is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who…