Nora Selmani is a final year English and Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. Her interests include diasporic literature, feminist readings of everything, and poetry. Kaede and Jiro in Kurosawa’s Ran. ‘By day and night he wrongs me…I’ll not endure it’: The Gender Politics of Rewriting King Lear The tragedy of King…
Category: Essays
A discussion of Neo-Victorianism in literary studies and as a new genre in contemporary performance – Kathryn Shaw
Kathryn Shaw studied Drama and Classical Literature and Civilization at the University of Birmingham, and is currently following a masters programme at KU Leuven university in Belgium. She is writing her thesis on Brussels’ Toone marionette theatre, and has an interest in popular performance. Emilie Autumn, credit: fanpop.com A discussion of Neo-Victorianism in…
Causality, consequences and counterfactuals: can individuals change history? – Chris Rouse
Chris Rouse is a final year History and Politics student at the University of Birmingham, and starts an MA in Medieval Studies at York in September. He enjoys writing about the premodern history of politics, religion, ideas and globalism. Causality, consequences and counterfactuals: can individuals change history? Can history be ‘changed’? Are there individuals…
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