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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 2: West India Interests)
Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1? Read it here! I was a reluctant and unintentional scholar of Henry Dundas. Whilst examining…
Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)
Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in…
A Life in Textbooks
by Laurie Bauer An Introduction to English Lexicology is my fifth textbook published with Edinburgh University Press. The first was…
Extract: Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics
Enjoy a sneak peek of the Introduction to Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics edited by Ryan Bishop and…
Q+A with the Author of The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
by Steven Monte Tell us a bit about your book… The book is essentially about two things: reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets…
What is post-horror? A Q&A with David Church, author of Post-Horror: Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation
In this interview, David Church discusses Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation, exploring the meaning of post-horror, its recent popularity…
Richly Varied Dishes: James Hogg and Scottish Periodicals
by Graham Tulloch When Judy King and I were invited to edit James Hogg’s contributions to Scottish periodicals for the…
Q&A with the Author of Slaves and Highlanders
by David Alston Can you tell us a bit about the book? Slaves and Highlanders is an exploration of the…
Preview: Theory of the Object by Thomas Nail
Enjoy a preview of the first page from Thomas Nail’s new book Theory of the Object. We live in an…