The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
Greenblatt is one of the best known scholars of English Renaissance literature and a seminal figure in New Historicism.
Paradise Lost – the Movie
Books by RUG Staff
For a list of recent books written and edited by the people that teach you see under the Books tab of this site. Books are the easiest thing to post images of, but staff research also involves publishing articles, reports, book reviews and involving themselves in various research projects.
Outcry over Hamlet novel with king as gay paedophile
Outcry over Hamlet novel casting old king as gay paedophile
Just when you thought there were no more daft things to be said about Hamlet.
What is literature for?
Man Booker prize shortlist
Student sues leading university, alleging that their gender studies course was biased against men
New E-Resource
There is a new full-text resource available through the library databases that will prove very useful for English students. EBL (http://www.rug.eblib.com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/patron/) carries secondary texts from several standard academic publishers (e.g. Palgrave, Routledge) as well as from a host of less well-known publishers. It allows you to download books for offsite reading.
Postmodernism is dead
Postmodernism is dead it seems – but what is/was it? Postmodernism is dead | Prospect Magazine.
What’s a Metaphor For?
Identifying a metaphor is something a first year student should be able to do without any difficulty. But what do metaphors do?
