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  • Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics

    Kurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.

    November 12, 2025
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Chastity and Capitalism, from Shakespeare’s England to Trump’s America

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  • Language and Literature / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

By Katherine Gillen Interest in Shakespeare’s economic philosophy intensified in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, reaching beyond academic circles…

  • ByCarla Hepburn
  • OnJuly 17, 2017

OLR 40th Anniversary – Jacques Derrida

  • Language and Literature / Literary Theory / Modernism / Philosophy

Welcome to July! This month we are doubly celebrating as, not only does OLR keep embracing the ripe age of…

  • ByRebecca Wojturska
  • OnJuly 15, 2017

An Intricate Transatlantic Triangle: US, UK and German Relations

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  • History / International Relations / Politics

Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…

  • ByNaomi Farmer
  • OnJune 21, 2017

An unfinished masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Language and Literature / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies / Scottish Literature

By Gillian Hughes Many of Stevenson’s longer works of fiction might be characterised as historical novels: in Weir of Hermiston Stevenson…

  • ByCarla Hepburn
  • OnJune 19, 2017

OLR 40th Anniversary – Bill Readings

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At just the age of 34, Bill Readings sadly died in a plane crash. He left behind a legacy of…

  • ByRebecca Wojturska
  • OnJune 15, 2017
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Film Philosophy and the Body in Cinema

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Film-philosophy has seen a resurgence of interest in phenomenology, particularly in its existentialist branch as exemplified by the work of…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnJune 5, 2017

Representations of Ageing in British Cinema and Television

  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV

With less than a year separating the publication of two age related issues of the Journal of British Cinema and…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnJune 1, 2017

Waking up from horror: shame and fugitive movements

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‘A future politics is given there so powerfully that it’s present as a trace even in certain reactions that, in…

  • ByNaomi Farmer
  • OnJune 1, 2017

Gaelic Satire and 18th Century Highland History

  • Cultural Studies / History / Scottish History / Scottish Literature / Scottish Studies

The benefit of studying Gaelic poetry in conjunction with conventional documentary sources to obtain a fuller understanding of the past…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnMay 29, 2017
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