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Who needs advice?
Read more: Who needs advice?Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.
‘Don’t pump up the emotion’: The creation and authorship of a sound world in The Wire
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around…
War and Christmas
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! [Merry Christmas!] is a picturebook written by two Latvian refugees while displaced during the Second World War. The…
Guest Blog – Organised Crime In Scotland
Organised crime in Scotland has been characterised (one could say sensationalised) as a blight and a cancer. Despite the best…
From the Archives – Translation of Children’s Literature in the Soviet Union: How Pinocchio Got a Golden Key
As well as providing entertainment and a tool for developing children’s reading skills, children’s literature is also a powerful instrument…
The Red Menace
The article “British Conservatives, the Red Menace and Antiforeign Agitation in China, 1924–1927” in our journal Cultural History looks at…
From the Archives – Persius’ Prologue and Early Modern English Satire
When compared to Juvenal or Horace (the two most prominent figures of Roman satire in sixteenth and seventeenth century England),…
Monsieur Desnoyer – Mapping Choreography. 18C Dance Design
![‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer’, Anthony L’Abbe, A New Collection of Dances [London, c.1725], plate 74, appearing in MONSIEUR DESNOYER, PART 1: 1721–1733, DOI: drs.2013.005969](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/spanish-dance.jpg)
Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps,…
Spotlight on….Translation and Literature
Founded in 1992, Translation and Literature is a tri-annual which is published in March, July and November of each year.…
From the archives – What is comparative literature?
Certain works of literature call especially clearly for a comparative approach, through reference to other works or through establishing comparative…