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Tag: poetry

Literary Studies

Poetry and the Dream of a Gift without Return

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 4, 20227 min read27 Views

“The gift—what we call “the gift” and “giving”—appears to have at least two distinct functions, and one would be hard pressed to decide between them.”

Cultural Studies

The Burns Supper: A New Field of Study

posted by Teri Williams October 4, 20217 min read194 Views

By Dr Paul Malgrati Over the past 220 years, the Burns Supper has become the quintessential festival of Scottish culture,…

Cultural Studies

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

posted by Teri Williams April 15, 20215 min read145 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 read111 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 read2440 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 read1978 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 read2178 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 read2787 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 read2578 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 read2010 Views

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

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