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Early on in Hesiod’s Works and Days, the first didactic poem of Classical antiquity, we find in succession two versions of human history. The first is a retelling of the havoc resulting for mankind from the actions of Prometheus in heaven and Pandora on earth; the second, introduced as an ‘alternative account’, asserts that four […]
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Simon Palfrey, the author of Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds, breaks down the barriers of Shakespeare's complicated play world and the language holding it together.
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the galley exhibition Works in Black and White, a key moment in the Black Arts Movement of the tumultuous 1960s. Julie Buckner Armstrong, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature, explores the role of art and literature in the fight for civil rights and the transformative power of language.
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In February 2014 we were approached and asked if we would prepare a new edition of J.C. Holt’s landmark book on Magna Carta, first published to accompany the seven hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Great Charter, for republication at the beginning of the eight hundredth anniversary. Since 2011 Jim Holt had been so physically […]
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Yellowlees Douglas, the author of The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer, offers six helpful insights into how you can become a better writer by understanding a bit about how our brains work.
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W.B. Yeats is widely recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. It has even been suggested that he was the greatest poet in Europe since Virgil. His reputation as a dramatist has been much less certain through the course of the twentieth century however. Yet it is as a dramatist that […]
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In his fifth post, Wallace Arthur, author of Evolving Animals (2014) explores 'evolutionary pattern' and how it impacts on 'our place' in the understanding of evolution.
Read MoreJames Melton, co-editor of Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy, explains why we should not just celebrate the birth of Magna Carta, but also its death.
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