Browsing School of English and Drama by Title
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A Paradoxical Privacy: Solitude and the Inner Voice in the Writings of Denise Riley
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Pedagogies of Defiance
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-11-15)Beginning from Paulo Freire's insistence that ‘Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom,' we can begin to unpack the political function of Higher Education in the UK. This essay uses ... -
Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
(2017-01-05)That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, ... -
Performed poetry and all-round experience
(2023-01-01)The National Curriculum makes spoken poetry part of what children should know, but dramatically limits what it can do. Thinking of sound as a purely internal dimension of the poem, it ignores the way oral performance brings ... -
Performing silence as political resistance: audience interaction and spatial politics in thomas ostermeier’s richard III
(2019-07-01)According to Jan Pappelbaum, what fascinated him and Thomas Ostermeier about ‘reconstructed’ Globe Theatres is that ‘[i]t becomes impossible to ignore the presence of the audience; actors are particularly exposed and ... -
The Persistence of Colonial Constitutionalism in British Overseas Territories
(2019)This article argues that despite the UK Government’s exaltations of self-determination of its Overseas Territories, provisions of colonial governance persist in their constitutions. Further, it posits that such illustrations ... -
“Personality Crisis? Honey, I was Born with One”: Lydia Lunch Interviewed
(Repeater, 2016-09-06)Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period ofcultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists ... -
Philosophical Solitude: David Hume Versus Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Physics of Melting in Early Modern Love Poetry
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Playing Josephus on the English Stage
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Playing with Books in John Bale's Three Laws
(English Association, 2013)It has become something of a critical commonplace to talk about John Bale's deep ambivalence about drama as a representational practice. Using drama against itself, Bale, in the words of recent criticism, seeks to expose ... -
'Pleasure too often Repeated': Aldous Huxley's Modernity
(Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2013)Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach In an essay published in 1923, Aldous Huxley suggested that ‘of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto- intoxication, brews quietly up within its own ...