Trudi Tate and Literature Cambridge present The Literary Kitchen, in partnership with the Cambridge Cookery School. On Saturday 19 November, we have a unique class on Proust and the Madeleine: a talk and reading by distinguished scholar Susan Sellers, followed by a hands-on cooking class making madeleines. http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/literary-kitchen/ http://www.cambridgecookeryschool.com/classes/category/the-literary-kitchen
Continue ReadingMonth: October 2016
Jitka Štollová Publishes in “James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre” (Routledge, 2016)
Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, […]
Continue ReadingSeminar Announcement – ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’, 3 November 2016
The next meeting of the American Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 November at 5pm in room SR24. Dr Will Norman (University of Kent) will be giving a paper entitled ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’. He will be focusing on Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler’s The Big […]
Continue ReadingColloquium Announcement – Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England, November 2016
MATTER AT THE CROSSROADS: LITERATURE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge 25 November 2016 Speakers include Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), Katherine Hunt (University of Oxford), Claire Preston (QMUL), Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Jonathan Sawday (SLU), and Helen Smith (University of York). Please note the deadline for registration is Tuesday […]
Continue ReadingSamuel Beckett: A Symposium Celebrating the Publication of the Fourth Volume of the Letters
Samuel Beckett A symposium celebrating the publication of the fourth volume of the Letters King’s College, Cambridge Friday November 25th, 14.00 – 18.00 Papers from: Steve Connor, Drew Milne, Emily Fitzell, Martin Crowley In conversation with: Chris Prendergast and John Haynes Readings from the Letters: Dan Gunn and George Craig To register for this free […]
Continue ReadingReading J.H. Prynne
A display of the work of J.H. Prynne is available to view on the first floor of the Faculty, with additional materials in the Faculty Library. Reading J.H. Prynne celebrates the poet’s role from the beginnings of the British Poetry Revival, as well as his influential part in the pedagogy of this university and the […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Kilbride Wins 2016 Raymond Williams Postgraduate Essay Competition
Dr Laura Kilbride wins the 2016 Raymond Williams (RWS) Postgraduate Essay Competition: the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize for her essay ‘The New Catholic Left: Language, Liturgy and Literature in Slant Magazine, 1964-1970’.
Continue ReadingDr James Riley Invited to Speak at the British Museum, 16 October 2016
James Riley speaks at the British Museum on Sunday 16 October as part of their special Otherworldly event. Along with Iain Sinclair, Gary Lachman and others, James uses objects in the Museum’s collection to “explore themes of cultural rituals, earth mysteries, psychogeography and folklore”. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=3173&title=Otherworldly: a special event for Halloween&eventType=Special event
Continue ReadingHeadlands @ the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Saturday 22 October 2016, 7:00-8:00pm
Headlands @ the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Saturday 22 October: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Following on from their exhibition in the Faculty of English earlier this year, Yvonne Salmon and James Riley present Headlands as a live event as part of the 2016 Cambridge […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate Presents Study Day on Virginia Woolf, September 2016
Dr Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, Director of Literature Cambridge, presents a study day on Virginia Woolf: Reading to The Lighthouse. With lectures by Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Professor Frances Spalding, and Dr Trudi Tate. Twenty-four people are booked for a day’s immersion in Woolf’s much-loved novel of art, yearning, and loss. Stapleford Granary, Saturday 17 […]
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