‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’ is supported by a 3-year ‘Opus’ grant awarded by NCN, the Polish government-funded National Science Centre. It involves a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University with some significant research outputs: besides conference activity and journal articles, Dr Newbould will co-edit a major collection of essays […]
Continue Reading28th January, 5pm, Drama and Performance Seminar Series, Zoom: this Thursday we welcome award-winning choreographer, Cathy Marston and director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Edward Kemp to discuss adaptation and dramaturgy
Pre-seminar materials will be uploaded on the Drama and Performance Moodle site. Please contact ew513@cam.ac.uk with any questions.
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil, former Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, wins TS Eliot Poetry Prize for How to Wash a Heart
‘How to Wash a Heart’ is published by Pavilion Poetry. Link to further information: https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2020/winner/
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen speaks at the online launch event for the new ‘Oxford World’s Classics’ editions of George Orwell on Thursday 28 January at 6pm
To celebrate George Orwell joining the Oxford World’s Classics series, join the editor of Animal Farm, David Dwan as he chairs a conversation about one of the world’s most influential writers. CrowdCast link to join the event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/orwell_oxford_worlds_clas/register
Continue ReadingAnnouncing an Experimental Criticism Symposium and the Launch of Manifold Journal’s Inaugural Issue
Manifold is celebrating the launch of their inaugural issue by hosting a symposium on Experimental Criticism that will run for seven weeks, starting Jan 21st. The panels will take place every Thursday from 1-2pm EST/6-7pm BST. To register for the events and for more information: https://www.manifoldcriticism.com/events Contributors of the first issue of Manifold will be […]
Continue ReadingLaunch of the Cambridge Foundation Year in the Arts and Humanities
The Cambridge Foundation Year is a free and fully-funded one-year residential course designed to offer a stepping stone to Cambridge for those who have experienced educational disadvantage. If you want to pursue further study in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, are ordinarily resident in the UK, and circumstances have prevented you from realising your […]
Continue ReadingAngela Leighton’s new volume of poems, ‘One, Two’, published by Carcanet, January 2021
Link for further information: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170162
Continue ReadingAlexander Freer’s book ‘Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure’ is published by Oxford University Press, October 2020
Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]
Continue Reading‘Voicing the Devil’: an online study evening for Years 11 and 12, hosted by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity, Thursday 28 January, 6pm-7pm
The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Thaventhiran and Professor Stefan Collini have published the first scholarly edition of William Empson’s ‘The Structure of Complex Words and Related Writings’
This edition reprints Empson’s classic work of literary criticism and related shorter writings, with full critical and textual commentaries. For further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/william-empson-the-structure-of-complex-words-9780198713432?cc=gb&lang=en&
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