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.
English Graduate Conference 2012
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A selection of recordings from the English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, 1 June 2012. The conference theme was Return to the Political: Literary Aesthetics and the Influence of Political Thought and featured student presentations and a panel discussion on the topic 'What is a Classic?'. The conference concluded with a keynote address from Booker prize winning author Ben Okri.
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...
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 Classic...
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 literar...
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. These include Olaudah Equiano's 1789 work, The Interesting Nar...
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. She argues that Faber...
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 c...
'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. Suffra...