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Cultural Studies

Burns Chronicle: The Oldest Scottish Literature Journal in the World?

posted by Teri Williams April 15, 20215 min read4 Views

By the Editors & Reviews Editor, the Burns Chronicle Almost 130 years ago, in 1892, enthusiasts started publishing the Burns…

Classics and Ancient History

Four Irish Persephones

posted by Teri Williams March 31, 202110 min read44 Views

By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Ancient History

Venus Voluptas: The Desire of Gods and Men

posted by Naomi Farmer August 14, 20184 min read2327 Views

Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.

Language and Literature

Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion

posted by Carla Hepburn July 3, 20185 min read1898 Views

Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…

Language and Literature

Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos”, Pedagogy and Poetics

posted by Teri Williams January 16, 20185 min read2104 Views

‘The Cantos and Pedagogy Forum’ in Volume 12 Issue 3 of Modernist Cultures consists of a research-length article by my colleague,…

Language and Literature

The CounterText Interview: Judith Butler

posted by Teri Williams September 19, 20174 min read2694 Views

CounterText Volume 3.2 (August 2017) is a special issue entitled The Poetic, and contains a contains a wide-ranging interview with…

Cultural Studies

Gaelic Satire and 18th Century Highland History

posted by Teri Williams May 29, 20174 min read2393 Views

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

Cultural Studies

Baudelaire in strange places

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals December 10, 20154 min read1933 Views

What has a nineteenth-century French poet got to do with 1960s American electronica? The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) published his…

Language and Literature

Ben Jonson’s Erotic Temporalities

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals November 6, 20153 min read2577 Views

By Amanda Henrichs I’ve always imagined Ben Jonson as the quintessential cranky old man, constantly complaining about the current state…

Edward Thomas, courtesy Edward Thomas Fellowship
History

War Damage: Four Poets of the First World War

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals August 7, 201457 sec read1912 Views

“what are the implications of [war damage] for our understanding of literary works which themselves engage with the theme of…

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