Shakespearean Metaphysics
Author: Michael WitmoreEdition: SecondPublisher: Continuum Pages: 143Price: £45.00 and £12.99ISBN: 9780826490438 and 0445Shakespeare’s plays, insists Michael Witmore, “take apart reality and put it...
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Author: Peter BarryEdition: ThirdPublisher: Manchester University PressPages: 338Price: £9.99ISBN: 97807190796 So many textbooks pimp literary and cultural theory that it may seem hard to distinguish...
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Modernisms: A Literary Guide
Author: Peter NichollsEdition: SecondPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 406Price: £19.99ISBN: 9780230506763Anyone who teaches modernism has cause to be grateful to Peter Nicholls for this...
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The Dunciad in Four Books
Editor Valerie RumboldEdition Revised firstPublisher PearsonPages 456Price £14.99ISBN 9781408204160Alexander Pope wasn’t known as “the little wasp of Twickenham” for nothing. During the last 15 years...
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Julian Barnes
Author: Frederic M. HolmesEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 178Price: £9.99ISBN: 9781403996930Here’s a wonderful introduction to Julian Barnes. The book is one of the first in...
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J. G. Ballard
Editor: Jeanette BaxterEdition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 151Price: £14.99ISBN: 9780826497260One virtue of this edited collection of essays on J. G. Ballard is the interview with the author....
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Ian McEwan
Editor: Sebastian Groes Edition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 153Price: £14.99ISBN: 9780826497220Why is there a Foreword by Matt Ridley? The man is a scientist and former chairman of Northern Rock...
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Literature roundup
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia PlathAuthor: Jo GillEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 168Price: £10.99ISBN: 9780521686952This text offers an inclusive guide to Plath’s...
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What Were the Crusades?
Author: Jonathan Riley-SmithEdition: FourthPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 136Price: £14.99ISBN: 9780230220690A fourth edition, 32 years after the first, is a tribute to the merits of this...
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Running battles on the governance front line 1
Following the usual paeans of praise for academic independence in these pages, I would like to point out the unacknowledged administrative costs involved.There are four administrators to every doctor...
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Running battles on the governance front line 2
The subject of university governance is high on the agenda. It is clear to me that changes to increase the influence of lay members on governing councils instituted by the Higher Education Funding...
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Running battles on the governance front line 3
The letter from a group of 185 academics concerned about the way "voluntary" redundancies appear to be "engineered" raises an important point (Letters, 10 September). In the voluntary casework I do,...
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Devil in the details
The practice of awarding marks for attendance ("Thanks very much for coming: you shall be rewarded", 10 September) may offer more support for providing employers with a detailed breakdown of...
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Spelling it out
I enjoyed the feature on George Orwell written by my colleague at the University of Texas, Tom Palaima ("1984: it's coming", 3 September), but I would like to make one pointed clarification.Palaima...
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Mind your tongue
What an unpopular chap Raphael Salkie is likely to be around the University of Oxford ("Strange death of Oxford linguistics", August). He begins his gracious, intelligent and even-tempered discussion...