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5 ways to (un)teach the canon
Read more: 5 ways to (un)teach the canonAnnelies Van Assche explores five innovative ways to challenge the dance canon and expand beyond Eurocentric narratives.
OLR 40th Anniversary – Maurice Blanchot
Marcel Proust once said, “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners…
Viking Law and Order
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
John M. MacKenzie on ‘Bogeys’ Past and Present
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
A Quiz on Shakespeare and Science – Part 2
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard The second part of our quiz poses another 14 questions on Shakespeare and science. Missed the…
Proletarian Modernism
By Nick Hubble Modernism raises questions. On one level, it expresses the personal questions about subjectivity that writers such as…
A Quiz on Shakespeare and Science
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard In this two part quiz, the editors of new book Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition…
Sentimentalism and the Musical at Eurovision 2017
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…
American television and off-screen registers: a corpus-based comparison
In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen…
OLR 40th Anniversary – Ann Smock
Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…