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Chaucer 4 - The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
Professor Marion Turner introduces one of the most famous and intricate tales from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales – "The Wife of Bath." |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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A Conversation with Katherine Langrish |
Dr Caroline Batten chats with author Katherine Langrish about her book 'From Spare Oom to War Drobe' |
Caroline Batten, Katherine Langrish |
31 Aug 2021 |
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Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative |
Dr Perkins gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. |
Nicholas Perkins |
14 Oct 2013 |
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Ariosto's Chivalric Romance as a Source of Italian Epic Theory |
Professor Daniel Javitch (Emeritus Prof. Comparative Literature, New York University) gives a talk for the Keble College ASC Creativity lecture series on 28th May 2013. |
Daniel Javitch |
07 Jun 2013 |
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The Romance of the Middle Ages |
Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn. |
Nicholas Perkins |
21 Jun 2012 |
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Shakespeare and Medieval Romance |
Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the Romance of the middle ages and Shakespeare's plays. She looks at textual features from his plays (including King Lear) which may indicate his influences. |
Helen Cooper |
12 Apr 2012 |
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Who did Plato (not) love? |
Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant and flippant, literary philosophical discussion of the topic, with some famous but also surprising outcomes. |
Cressida Ryan |
15 Feb 2011 |
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If marriage is a trade, then what price romance? |
Theatre was a forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing against society blocking women's access to alternative professions. Did one playwright solve the problem of selling seats without selling out? |
Sol Eltis |
15 Feb 2011 |
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Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating |
Dr Hogan explores values towards online dating, relating them to whether one's friends have dated online and whether social network software or online personals are responsible for the continued rise in popularity of online dating. |
Bernie Hogan |
14 Feb 2011 |
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Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters |
In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and code to tease his reader but still communicate intimacy. The denial of full disclosure and the refusal to reveal all is part of the game of seduction. |
Abigail Williams |
14 Feb 2011 |
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An advert for the lecture series "Love and other things" |
This advert introduces a series of 4 talks on the subject of love and romance. The 10 minute talks took place at Oxford University on Valentine's day 2011. |
Ed Watkins |
14 Feb 2011 |
