The Female Gothic: New Directions
An uncanny sense of critical recuperation filled my thoughts as I scanned the contents page and digested the introduction of this edited volume. Here, once again, Ellen Moers' concept of the "female...
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The Canon: Moses and Monotheism. By Sigmund Freud
While Freud may have come to conclusions with which it is not always easy to concur, it is surely absurd to dismiss his work in its entirety. Many do, however, and despite approbation from figures as...
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Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays
Robert Kulpa re-evaluates an interdisciplinary thinker who probes the limits of anthropocentrism
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Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain since 1945
This book is the product of a group of authors affiliated to the Institute of Historical Research and examines the question of inequality from the viewpoint of groups who are often seen as...
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I do I undo I redo: The Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves
Finn Fordham may be the kind of critic whose attentions writers dread. He is a meticulous enquirer into the often murky truth about how poems and novels come into being; the regrettably mundane...
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Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
Joseph Dauben is impressed with the scholarship in a study of 'shape-shifting' missionaries
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The Nature and Future of Philosophy
It would be a fine thing to know the nature and the future of philosophy, and Sir Michael Dummett, one of the few British philosophers to regularly appear in encyclopaedias of the discipline of...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
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Book of the week: Requiem for a Species
Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson
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ARTS AND DESIGN- What is Architectural History?By Andrew Leach, senior lecturer in architecture, Griffith University. Wiley, £50.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745644561 and 4578This book considers the...
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UUK's two-tier pension bid is justly unpopular 1
The University and College Union read with interest the valiant attempt by the Universities UK chief executive Nicola Dandridge to sell the employers' proposals to reform the Universities...
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UUK's two-tier pension bid is justly unpopular 2
Nicola Dandridge's argument for changing the Universities Superannuation Scheme elides the fundamental moral difference between university managers and the University and College Union. The proposal...
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They forgot to mind the gap
I wonder whether the severance conditions afforded to the outgoing vice-chancellor at the University of Cumbria will be extended to all staff and students at that beleaguered institution ("Cumbria...
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'Customer': not always right
It is excellent to see that institutional researchers are now beginning to turn their attention to the experiences of academic staff in higher education ("'Service excellence' means treating staff as...
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They're worth it, they say
Considering Vince Cable's attack on the salaries of vice-chancellors ("Cable 'taken aback' by recent v-c pay rises", www.times highereducation.co.uk, May), the prescience of Malcolm McVicar, vice-...