On Easter Saturday 1605, a middle-aged Spanish lady who spoke no English and was in chronic ill health landed at Dover. Her handicaps were of no especial concern to her because her greatest hope in...
Indira Ghose's adroit, engaging study begins with a moment of consternation. When invited by a newspaper to nominate the "funniest Brit of all time", the nation chose not Shakespeare but Eric...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural ArtBy Peggy Macnamara, associate professor, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, £13.00ISBN 9780226500973A...
China is becoming increasingly worried about the rising number of students taking journalism and communications courses when it is impossible for all the graduates to find work in a strictly...
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, was quick to find reassurance in the news from the 2008 National Student Survey that student satisfaction at Poppleton had decreased by only 4 per...
Kevin Fong says the experiments at Cern represent science at its finest
Here's a shock: academics know how to assess work and reach mostly the same conclusions about what mark is meritedWhen we decided to conduct our Big Marking Experiment, we set out with only one...
Gail Braybon, the pioneering feminist historian of the Great War, has died.Born in Southampton in 1952, Ms Braybon attended Southampton School for Girls and studied history at the University of...
The University of Oxford's plans for a £29 million book storage facility, which the university has argued is essential to protect the future of the Bodleian library, have been killed off by the...
Literary Theory: A ReintroductionAuthor: David AyersEdition: FirstPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPages: 256Price: £12.99ISBN 9781405136013A quarter of a century ago Terry Eagleton wrote Literary Theory:...
LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTIONAuthor: Terry EagletonEdition: AnniversaryPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPages: 248Price: £16.99ISBN 9781405179218Criticism dates, art doesn't - but that doesn't mean we...
Key Concepts in Renaissance LiteratureAuthor: Malcolm HebronEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 304Price: £13.99ISBN 9780230507678This is an immensely readable reference book. The text...
RENAISSANCE DRAMAAuthor: Sandra ClarkEdition: FirstPublisher: PolityPages: 232Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780745633107 and 3114Sandra Clark rejects a Shakespeare-centred approach in this...
Twentieth-Century Irish LiteratureAuthor: Aaron KellyEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 216Price: £45.00 and £14.99ISBN 9780230517189 and 7196Ireland's literary output during the 20th...
Research Methods for Cultural StudiesEditor: Michael PickeringEdition: FirstPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPages: 256Price: £55.00 and £17.99ISBN 9780748625772 and 5789Research Methods for...