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 […]
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Professor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson’s new book Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture is published with Cambridge University Press. In the book, Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed […]
Continue ReadingPeter De Bolla Wins Robert Lowry Patten Award
We congratulate Professor Peter de Bolla, who has won the annual Robert Lowry Patten Award, awarded by the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for the most outstanding recent contribution to British literary studies of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The award is for his book The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of […]
Continue ReadingWondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?
What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Prof. Christopher Page’s latest book The Guitar in Tudor England reveals that 16th century students faced similar dilemmas – though their packing lists were rather different. In the hands of an amorous young man, […]
Continue ReadingProf Steven Connor on The Verb, 14 March 2014
Professor Steven Connor will be talking about his new book, Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalisations, on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb at 22.00, Friday 14th March. See also: The Times The Times Literary Supplement Textual Practice
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