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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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Language and Literature, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Shakespeare, Art and Life

By Andy Mousley I sometimes wonder which of Shakespeare’s characters most closely resembles Shakespeare himself: ambitious Macbeth? brooding Hamlet? the simultaneously romantic and anti-romantic Rosalind? It’s idle speculation, of course. Less idle (because the evidence is before us) is to…

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April 29, 2016

Language and Literature, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Shakespeare’s Metadrama and the Informer

By Bill Angus If you have ever wondered what was really going on in the secret overhearing and tacit observations, the metadramatic inner-plays and devices which Shakespeare constantly revisits, you may have been told that he was ‘playing with the…

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April 27, 2016

Cultural History, History, Language and Literature, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Shakespeare’s Questions

By Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne What is it about Shakespeare’s writing that makes it endure? Why do his plays and poems continue to entertain, engage, and instruct more than 400 years on? I think it might have something to do with…

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April 22, 2016
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Language and Literature

A Matter of Life and Death: the Fourth Act in Shakespearean Tragedy

By Lisa Hopkins Having an associative mind is often a source of shame, but it does occasionally have benefits. Two separate moments of mental abstraction came together to help me think about the fourth acts of Shakespearean tragedies. Watching King…

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October 20, 2015
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Language and Literature, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Event of Style in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The concept of the ‘event’ has accumulated around it a somewhat varied stream of interventions in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. In The Event of Style in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) I tried to think of the event in relation…

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August 3, 2015

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Envy and the Politics of Reading

How did early modern writers link envy in print culture to politics and community?

Edinburgh University Press
August 25, 2025

Language and Literature, Literary Theory, Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Reading Mrs Dalloway

Explore how Marion Milner’s psychoanalytic reading of Mrs Dalloway reveals themes of motherhood, desire, and the transformative act of reading in modernist literature.