Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials 3 July 2018 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge A three-part public event embedded in the conference, Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond (2-4 July, 2018). This event, involving actors, visual artists and legal professionals, comprises: a professional performance event directed […]
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‘Deconstruction, Feminism, Film’ – New Book by Sarah Dillon
Dr Sarah Dillon’s new book, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film is published this month with Edinburgh University Press. The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close […]
Continue Reading‘Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond’, 2–4 July 2018, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2–4 July 2018 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. With the authority and intellectual security this progress gives […]
Continue ReadingDr David Winters co-edits ‘Conversations with Gordon Lish’, published June 2018
David Winters has co-edited the collected interviews of writer, editor and teacher Gordon Lish. The book, titled Conversations with Gordon Lish, is published by Mississippi University Press: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2114
Continue ReadingOriginal artwork from ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes on display in the Faculty of English, May 2018
Ted Hughes and George Adamson Ted Hughes was one of the great writers for children, and his first three children’s books, Meet My Folks!, The Iron Man and How the Whale Became all benefited from a collaboration with the illustrator George Worsley Adamson (1913-2005). Thanks to the generosity of his son John, Pembroke’s collection includes […]
Continue ReadingDr John Regan publishes new book: ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90’ (Anthem Press, 2018)
Dr John Regan’s new book, ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90’, is published by Anthem Press: http://www.anthempress.com/poetry-and-the-idea-of-progress-1760-90
Continue ReadingA new book edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson asks, what is blood? (May 2018)
“A powerful and coherent collection of essays that illuminates the various facets of a fascinating subject. It greatly enriches our sense of the meanings of blood and will have a major impact in medieval and Renaissance studies.”—Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan A new book edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson asks, what is blood? In late […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita curates an exhibition on little magazines at Poets House, New York, May 2018
Dr Sophie Seita has been invited to curate an exhibition focusing on a century of avant-garde little magazines at Poets House in New York, one of the largest open-stack poetry libraries in the US. Exhibition Opening: May 15, 6pm Talk with exhibition curator Sophie Seita: 7pm This exhibition celebrates the contributions small-press magazines have made […]
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