Faculty of English Language and Literature
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The Faculty of English Language and Literature is by far the largest English Department in the UK, with over 75 permanent postholders, a further 70 Faculty members, 900 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates. The Faculty has a very distinguished research and teaching record, covering all periods of English Literature.
Oxford’s English Faculty is one of the most illustrious Schools of English in the world. Established in 1894, it has numbered among its members some of the most important critics and scholars in the field, including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edmund Blunden, Nevill Coghill, Helen Gardner, Richard Ellmann, Terry Eagleton, and many others. We are now home to nearly eighty Professors, Readers, and Lecturers, with about the same number again of Tutors and Research Fellows based in Colleges. At any one time, there are roughly a thousand students studying within the Faculty at undergraduate level, and another three hundred at graduate level in the largest English graduate school in the country.
Traditionally teaching and research in the Faculty has covered the entire history of literature in English from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, along with language studies. More recent growth areas include world literature and film studies.
Series associated with Faculty of English Language and Literature
"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction
Approaching Shakespeare
Broadcast Media
Censorship in Literature in South Africa
Centre for the Study of the Book
Challenging the Canon
Chaucer for Beginners
D.H. Lawrence
Edward Lear's Feelings
English at Oxford
English Graduate Conference 2012
Faculty of English - Introductions
Fantasy Literature
George Eliot
Great Writers Inspire
Great Writers Inspire at Home
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
Indian Traces in Oxford
Interviews on Great Writers
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Literature and Form
Literature, Art and Oxford
Medieval English
Modern Fairies
MSt English Language
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Oxford Writers' House Talks
Poetry with A.E. Stallings
Poetry with Simon Armitage
Professor of Poetry
Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare's First Folio (ePub format)
Staging Shakespeare
The End of Journalism
Their Finest Hour
Tolkien at Oxford
Valentine's Day at Oxford
War and Representation
Writers in Dialogue
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| 246 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Old English Literature? | Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf and proposes why we should still study Old English Literature. | Francis Leneghan | 07 Nov 2013 |
| 245 | Creative Commons | Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader | Michael Whitworth, English Faculty, Oxford University, gives a lecture at the English Faculty Open day around Victorian literature. | Michael Whitworth | 06 Nov 2013 |
| 244 | Creative Commons | 3. Art and Morality | Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend. | Sos Eltis | 29 Oct 2013 |
| 243 | Creative Commons | 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist | Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition. | Sos Eltis | 22 Oct 2013 |
| 242 | Creative Commons | 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art | First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis. | Sos Eltis | 14 Oct 2013 |
| 241 | Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction | Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view. | David Grylls | 04 Oct 2013 | |
| 240 | Creative Commons | Smallpox in poetry | Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the literature of the period. This podcast explores its history in verse. | Elizabeth Atkinson | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 239 | Creative Commons | The poetry of war | Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on Joseph Addison's poem, The Campaign. | Abigail Williams | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 238 | Creative Commons | The Ladle: a comic poem | Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This podcast explores its appeal. | Louise Curran | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 237 | Creative Commons | Music in miscellanies | Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it performed? | Giles Lewin | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 236 | Creative Commons | Pastoral Poetry | Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources. | Kathleen Lawton-Trask | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 235 | Creative Commons | Politics in poetry | This podcast explores the culture of Jacobitism in the eighteenth century, using a popular ballad. | John McTague | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 234 | Creative Commons | The life of epigrams | This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram. | Dianne Mitchell | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 233 | Creative Commons | Petticoats and fashion | An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the poetry of the time. | Elizabeth Atkinson | 16 Sep 2013 |
| 232 | Creative Commons | Information about Great Writers Inspire | Further information about the educational resource: http://writersinspire.org. | Sarah Wilkin | 29 Aug 2013 |
| 231 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre? | Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Elizabethan Theatre. | Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman | 19 Aug 2013 |
| 230 | Creative Commons | Why should we study medieval romance? | Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study medieval romance. | Nicholas Perkins, Sarah Wilkin | 12 Aug 2013 |
| 229 | Creative Commons | Why should we study the humanities? | For those wanting a further challenge, Professor Helen Small of Pembroke College, Oxford, discusses the difficulties facing the study of the humanities today. | Helen Small, Ilana Lassman | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 228 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Johnson? | Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes we should still study Samuel Johnson. | Ros Ballaster, Sarah Wilkin | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 227 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? | Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should study Postcolonial writers such as Achebe. | Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 226 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Chaucer? | Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Chaucer. | Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 225 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Shakespeare? | Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Shakespeare. | Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 224 | Creative Commons | Why should we study Dickens? | Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study Dickens. | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman | 31 Jul 2013 |
| 223 | Creative Commons | Achebe and the African Writers Series | A special seminar held at the Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar at Wadham College on 2nd May 2013. | James Currey, Becky Ayebia Clarke, Ruth Bush, Asha Rogers | 10 Jul 2013 |
| 222 | Creative Commons | 'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home | Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. | Victoria Glendinning | 18 Jun 2013 |
| 221 | Creative Commons | 'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion | This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. | Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, Nisha Manocha | 18 Jun 2013 |
| 220 | Creative Commons | Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle' | Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle. | Chandani Lokuge | 18 Jun 2013 |
| 219 | Book as Object; Panel Discussion for Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013 | Panel discussion talk on 'Book as Object' for the Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013. | Paul Nash, Nick Cross, Stephen Walter | 17 Jun 2013 | |
| 218 | Creative Commons | Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" | A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of 'You Talkin' to Me'. Students from Oxford University Drama Society will take part in the masterclass with an audience. | Gregory Doran, Sam Leith | 07 Jun 2013 |
| 217 | Creative Commons | Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' | A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor. Students from Oxford University Drama Society rehearse Romeo and Juliet in front of an audience. | Gregory Doran | 07 Jun 2013 |
| 216 | Peter D McDonald in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri | Peter D. McDonald talks to Amit Chaudhuri about his work as a novelist, critic and musician, focusing on his interest in the specificity of the many media he uses and on the challenge of thinking about cultural interconnectedness in new ways. | Peter McDonald, Amit Chaudhuri | 05 Jun 2013 | |
| 215 | Peter D McDonald in conversation with Derek Attridge | Peter D. McDonald and Derek Attridge reflect on their different approaches to the questions of literature and public value, and on the bearing this has for teaching and research today. | Peter McDonald, Derek Attridge | 04 Jun 2013 | |
| 214 | Peter D McDonald in conversation with Antjie Krog | Peter D. McDonald talks to Antjie Krog about her relationship to Afrikaans, English and African languages, about the promise and perils of translation, and about the challenges of and for writing in a multilingual democracy. | Peter McDonald, Antjie Krog | 04 Jun 2013 | |
| 213 | Peter D. McDonald in conversation with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra | Peter D. McDonald talks to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra about his work as a poet, critic and translator, focusing on the idea of triangulation and his interest in the intersections between languages and literary traditions. | Peter McDonald, Arvind Mehrotra | 23 Apr 2013 | |
| 212 | Creative Commons | Oriental Tales and Their Influence | Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. | Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner | 26 Mar 2013 |
| 211 | Creative Commons | The Merchant of Venice. | ePub version of text The Merchant of Venice. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 20 Nov 2012 |
| 210 | Creative Commons | The Merchant of Venice | This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example. | Emma Smith | 20 Nov 2012 |
| 209 | Creative Commons | The Taming of the Shrew. | ePub version of text THE Taming of the Shrew. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 208 | Creative Commons | Taming of the Shrew | Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play. | Emma Smith | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 207 | Creative Commons | A Midsommer Nights Dreame. | ePub version of text A MIDSOMMER Nights Dreame. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 206 | Creative Commons | A Midsummer Night's Dream | This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire. | Emma Smith | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 205 | Creative Commons | Language and History | Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such vexed questions as whether Jane Austen could spell, the fate of the apostrophe and whether people who 'literally' explode with anger are corrupting the language. | Simon Horobin | 30 Oct 2012 |
| 204 | Creative Commons | Much adoe about Nothing. | ePub version of text Much adoe about Nothing. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 30 Oct 2012 |
| 203 | Creative Commons | Much Ado About Nothing | Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance. | Emma Smith | 30 Oct 2012 |
| 202 | Creative Commons | The tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. | ePub version of text The tragedie of HAMLET, Prince of Denmarke. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 23 Oct 2012 |
| 201 | Creative Commons | Hamlet | The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England. | Emma Smith | 23 Oct 2012 |
| 200 | Creative Commons | As you Like it. | ePub version of text As you Like it. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 23 Oct 2012 |
| 199 | Creative Commons | As You Like It | Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches. | Emma Smith | 23 Oct 2012 |
| 198 | Creative Commons | Kipling, the Elton John of his age? | Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. | Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies | 08 Oct 2012 |
| 197 | Creative Commons | Postcolonial Women Writers | Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. | Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies | 08 Oct 2012 |
| 196 | Creative Commons | Oscar Wilde's Women | Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. | Sophie Duncan | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 195 | Creative Commons | Great Writers Inspire Great Writing | Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers. | Alex Pryce | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 194 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling | Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'. | Julian Thompson | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 193 | Creative Commons | DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer? | Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. | Peter McDonald | 28 Aug 2012 |
| 192 | Creative Commons | Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim | Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. | Peter McDonald | 28 Aug 2012 |
| 191 | Creative Commons | Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe | Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. | Peter McDonald | 28 Aug 2012 |
| 190 | Creative Commons | Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott | Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. | Jason Allen, Dominic Davies | 24 Aug 2012 |
| 189 | Creative Commons | The language of Shakespeare | Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and what they have done to overcome these. | Kate O'Connor | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 188 | Creative Commons | Understanding Shakespeare | The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona. | Nick Lyons | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 187 | Creative Commons | Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director | The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses issues related to editing and direction. | Kate O'Connor | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 186 | Creative Commons | The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man | The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance. | Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 185 | Creative Commons | The Tempest: Our revels now are ended | The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama society. | Dylan Townley | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 184 | Creative Commons | The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning | The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding and using the meter can help an actor or reader to bring out the poetry in a text. Includes a scene from The Tempest. | Dylan Townley | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 183 | Creative Commons | The Tempest: Prospero | Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They describe how they have chosen to portray him in this Oxford student performance of The Tempest, and discuss on what they base their interpretation. | Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 182 | Creative Commons | The Tempest: Direction and interpretation | Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and performing a student Shakespeare production of The Tempest. | Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 181 | Creative Commons | Teaching Shakespeare in Schools | A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references from contemporary culture to get the students to understand, relate to, and engage with the text. | Joyti Chandegra | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 180 | Creative Commons | The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life | The director Archie Cornish, and actor Dylan Townley, introduce the Revel speech in The Tempest. They also discuss the context in which it appears. | Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley | 22 Aug 2012 |
| 179 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and the Stage | Professor Tiffany Stern gives a short talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England. | Tiffany Stern | 22 Aug 2012 |
| 178 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Sir Walter Scott | Dr Julian Thompson introduces 'the least read great writer in our literature'. He describes the popularly of Walter Scott in his own time and suggests some highlights of the 'living Scots' of his fiction. | Julian Thompson | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 177 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and Voice | Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. | Linda Gates | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 176 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and Voice | Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. | Linda Gates | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 175 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 | Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Helena Kennedy | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 174 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 | Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Helena Kennedy | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 173 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 | Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Judith Luna | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 172 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 | Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Judith Luna | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 171 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 | Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. | Ankhi Mukherjee | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 170 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 | Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. | Ankhi Mukherjee | 19 Jul 2012 |
| 169 | Creative Commons | Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing | Cecilia Bennett considers the use of the English language in black Atlantic narratives. | Cecilia Bennett | 18 Jul 2012 |
| 168 | Creative Commons | Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White | Erin Nyborg draws parallels between Michael Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. | Erin Nyborg | 18 Jul 2012 |
| 167 | Creative Commons | Olive Schreiner | Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her work, The Story of the African Farm, engages with the critical question of European hegemony in literary understanding and expectations of literary works. | Dominic Davies | 17 Jul 2012 |
| 166 | Creative Commons | 'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes | In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics. | Sophie Duncan | 17 Jul 2012 |
| 165 | Creative Commons | A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. | Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. | Sally Bayley | 16 Jul 2012 |
| 164 | Creative Commons | 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 |
| 163 | Creative Commons | Dickens's Points of View | Professor Jon Mee, University of Warwick, discusses how Dickens's fiction can be considered 'cinematic' by drawing attention to the shifting points of view in Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, and other novels. | Jon Mee | 14 Jun 2012 |
| 162 | Creative Commons | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored | Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family life but also her writing style and techniques. | Kathryn Sutherland | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 161 | Creative Commons | The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising | Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel "The Watsons" and what we can learn about her from these. | Kathryn Sutherland | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 160 | Creative Commons | Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project | A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project. | Joshua Carr | 23 May 2012 |
| 159 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? | Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison'. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
| 158 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting | Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot). | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
| 157 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 2: Chapters | Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the second lecture, Brown talks about the ways in which writers choose to break up their works into chapters, parts, and volumes. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
| 156 | Creative Commons | Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators | Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the first lecture, Brown discusses the use of the unreliable narrator, particularly in Nabokov's Lolita and McEwan's Atonement. | Catherine Brown | 21 May 2012 |
| 155 | Creative Commons | What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question. | In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about greatness in writing. | Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee | 15 May 2012 |
| 154 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins | Dr. Julian Thompson considers how Wilkie Collins's fiction was pioneering across a variety of genres, including detective fiction and gothic thrillers. | Julian Thompson | 15 May 2012 |
| 153 | Creative Commons | Chaucer | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century. | Daniel Wakelin | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 152 | Creative Commons | Ezra Pound | Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure in early 20th Century poetry movements. | Rebecca Beasley | 10 Apr 2012 |
| 151 | Creative Commons | Mary Leapor | Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society. | Jennifer Batt | 27 Mar 2012 |
| 150 | Creative Commons | DH Lawrence 7. Reception History | Catherine Brown gives the Seventh and final lecture in the DH Lawrence series. | Catherine Brown | 19 Mar 2012 |
| 149 | Creative Commons | DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children | Catherine Brown gives the sixth lecture in the DH Lawrence series. | Catherine Brown | 19 Mar 2012 |
| 148 | Creative Commons | John Milton | Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer. | Anna Beer | 15 Mar 2012 |
| 147 | Creative Commons | The Lure of the East: the Oriental and Philosophical Tale in Eighteenth-Century England | Professor Ros Ballaster discusses the objectives of oriental tales published in the second half of the 18th Century which use the sheer power of storytelling to conjure up alternative worlds. | Ros Ballaster | 13 Mar 2012 |
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