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Fashioned by Use: Jacques Bellot’s Rules and its Successors
The sixteenth-century Huguenot émigré Jacques Bellot played a seminal role in the history of English and French language tuition, and is remembered for composing some of the first descriptive grammars for learners of both ... -
Feminism and Futurity: Revisiting Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)This article considers the question of feminist futurity through Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). While dominant readings of this novel have focused on its relationship to the feminist utopian genre and ... -
Feminism, audience interaction, and performer authority 1
(2019-01-01)© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Doris Kolesch, Theresa Schütz, Sophie Nikoleit; individual chapters, the contributors. In this chapter, the author is concerned with democracy and inequality, and how theatre and ... -
Feminisms Now
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Feminist Diagrams
On 4 January 1971, Ti-Grace Atkinson delivered a talk entitled ‘Strategy and Tactics: A Presentation of Political Lesbianism’. The talk was later published in her collected essays, Amazon Odyssey. The essay contains ... -
The figure of the refugee in Hassan Blasim’s “The Reality and the Record”
(SAGE Publications, 2017-06-07)This article considers Hassan Blasim’s short story, “The Reality and the Record”. It argues that Blasim’s asylum seeker should be read as a powerful challenge to extant responses to the ever-growing global refugee crisis: ... -
File Under COUM: Art on Trial in Genesis P-Orridge’s Mail Action
(Penn State Press, 2017-12-14)The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media ... -
Fractured Reflections: How Lacan, Derrida & Nietzsche Sought to Overcome Barriers of the Constructed Self
(School of English and Drama – Queen Mary, University of London, 2020) -
A Fragment of a Lost Chanson de geste
The Broxbourne collection in the Bodleian Library is a collection of rare binding specimens presented to the Library in 1978 through the Friends of the National Libraries by John Ehrman, in memory of his father. Broxb. ... -
‘Frances Hodgson Burnett and Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Spring (1894)’
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)This essay identifies a picture described in 'The Secret Garden' (1911), Frances Hodgson Burnett's celebrated children’s novel, as 'Spring' (1894), a painting by the celebrated Victorian artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It ... -
The 'French' Books of The Prelude: A Virtual Round Table
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The Fringe: The Rise and Fall of Radical Alternative Theatre
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)The various names given to the new theatre movement that emerged in the 1960s to challenge both the West End and the new subsidised theatre sector include ‘fringe’, ‘alternative’, and ‘underground’; each offers different ... -
From grief to leisure: "Lycidas" in the eighteenth century
(2016-03-01)© 2016 by University of Washington. Milton's elegy for Edward King was widely admired and imitated in the eighteenth century. These imitations tend to celebrate the poem as an ornamental, musical work while suppressing its ...