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Research English At Durham 46 - Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court

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Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court

Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician

Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats

The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature

In Conversation with Jane Smiley

An Evening with T.S. Eliot

Antler

To Hell with Paradise

The Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry

The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

Celebrating the Brontës

Becoming Sea: A Blurred Lyric of the Ocean

Albion: The Brut Chronicle

Alfred the Great Through History

Tics in the Theatre: The 'Quiet Audience' and the Neurodivergent Spectator

Eugenics in Utopian Literature

When Masters Became Tragic Heroes

(S)he’s just not that into you: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature

Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve

Poet Caroline Bird Speaks to the 98 Percent

The Stream of Consciousness in William Wordsworth and James Joyce

The Geographic and Linguistic Identity of the American Midwest

Inscribing Identities in Childhood and Deathbed Scenes

Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down

Snake Women: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories

A Short History of Interactive Narratives

Dickens's Ghosts: An Altered Perspective

Rachael Boast on the Language and Sound of Poetry

Brexit and the Democratic Intellect

Will Harris on Becoming a Poet

Future Memory and Circular Time in Charles Dickens' 'The Signal-Man'

The Classical Underworld as a Memoryscape

Polly Atkin on the Places of Her Poetry

Time and Place: Bakhtin and Shakespeare

JL Williams on the Origins of Her Poetry

Wandering Across Scandinavia in Egils Saga

Gillian Allnutt on a Life in Poetry

Sounds Unreal

Liz Berry's Locations and Locutions

Aurélia Lassaque on Poetry Across Languages

The Pleasures and Challenges of Contemporary Literature

Crash and Burn: A Poetry Reading in Memory of Michael O’Neill

Philosophy and Literature