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Posted Feb 1, 2017 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Bloomsbury Companions
Posted Sep 10, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Announcing 'Language and Identity'!
Posted May 29, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Five Fun Facts about Inuit
Posted May 8, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Five Fun Facts about Fijian
Posted May 1, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Five Fun Facts about the languages of Papua New Guinea
Posted Apr 24, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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The Spag Bowl
Posted Mar 25, 2014 at Bloomsbury Linguistics
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Contemporary Poets and the Pastoral Elegy: an author guest post by Iain Twiddy
'In his 1935 study, Some Versions of Pastoral, rather than presenting a genre rooted in escapism, fantasy or paradise, William Empson described the pragmatic, instrumental value of pastoral, its way of ‘putting the complex into the simple’. But he also radically demonstrated, in examining such seemingly disparate texts as Troilus... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Is poetry rational? Is rhyme reasonable?
Is poetry rational? Is poetry reasonable? Is rhyme rational? Is rhyme reasonable? Does reason rhyme? Is rhyme a kind of non-reason, or nonsense? It is readily accepted among today’s cultural elite that modern poetry doesn’t have to rhyme – as if it is an unreasonable demand to be so reasonably... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Celebrating 15 Years of Harry Potter Magic: The Search for UK and Ireland's Biggest Harry Potter Fan
Posted Jun 26, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Samuel Beckett's German Diaries 1936-1937 reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement
Samuel Beckett's German Diaries 1936 - 1937 by Mark Nixon is one of our flagship Beckett publications, launching the publication of our Historicizing Modernism series last year. I am delighted to report that it has had a rave review in the Times Literary Supplement. Normally at this point I would... Continue reading
Posted Jun 15, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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In Conversation with Michael Lackey: Studying Nazi Christianity
Described as the 'Richard Dawkins of Literary Criticism' by Christopher Douglas (Associate Professor of English, University of Victoria), Michael Lackey is the author of our fascinating new book The Modernist God State in which he looks at the religious basis of modernist political movements. In this interview he reveals his... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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In Conversation with David Tucker: Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx
Posted Jun 1, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Madeline Miller wins the 2012 Orange Prize!
Posted May 31, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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New Directions in Religion and Literature: Jo Carruthers on Englishness and Religious Identities
In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden the children sit in their newly restored garden, bursting to express their sense of celebration. Ben the gardener suggests they sing the Doxology hymn, even though ‘He had no opinion of the Doxology and he did not make the suggestion with any particular... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Ideas Allowed: John Schad discusses The Late Walter Benjamin
John Schad will be taking part in a series of Ideas Allowed talks in Hull on the 24th May, discussing and reading from his fantastic new book, The Late Walter Benjamin. Regular visitors to our blog will be more than familiar with this book - we have posted up an... Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Bloomsbury shortlisted for Academic, Education and Professional Publisher of the Year
I am delighted to report that Bloomsbury has been shortlisted for Academic, Education and Professional Publisher of the Year by the Bookseller Industry Awards. Exciting times! The judges for this award will be looking for companies specialising in academic, educational or professional publishing, which demonstrate consistent high-quality publishing within its... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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In Conversation with John Schad: Walter Benjamin Revealed
John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster and author of our new fictional narrative The Late Walter Benjamin. 'Set partly in Watford and partly in the haunted wing of the English language' (Ian Macmillan, on BBC Radio 3's 'The Verb'), this documentary novel juxtaposes the... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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The Late Walter Benjamin: read the first two chapters here!
As mentioned previously, we're really excited to be publishing The Late Walter Benjamin this week! On Monday John Schad (the author) gave us an insight into his experience of writing about Walter Benjamin, and today I'm delighted to bring you the first couple of chapters of the book to read,... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Writing The Late Walter Benjamin: an author perspective
This week we publish The Late Walter Benjamin, a documentary novel that creatively explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin in the political context of a post-War London estate. In this blog post, our author John Schad looks back on his personal engagement with Walter Benjamin and how it... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology
Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology has just published in the UK and I am delighted to say that it is available on inspection for all lecturers cosidering course adoption of at least 12 copies or more! Further details of how to order can be found here. In... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Inspiration in creative screenwriting: an author guest post by Zara Waldeback and Craig Batty
Posted Apr 24, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography - a sneak peek at some of the photos!
Posted Apr 5, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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Mad Men, the most literary show on television?
As mentioned previously on this blog, we are big fans of all things Americana and in particular, the television phenomenon that is Mad Men. So much so, that we put together our own literary guide to Mad Men on this blog last week. But we are not the only ones,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'
What place did feminist writing have in the modernist movement? Seeing as we are attending the Moving Modernisms conference this week, lets turn our attention to Virginia Woolf... 'Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a key feminist text that explores the relationship between women and literature and economics. It... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2012 at Bloomsbury Literary Studies
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