Let’s get this straight. Gender studies isn’t about ‘women good, men bad’ | Jonathan Dean
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?
Where Have All the Girls Gone? Is this a post-feminist era?
‘How did more than 160 million women go missing from Asia? The simple answer is sex selection — typically, an ultrasound scan followed by an abortion if the fetus turns out to be female — but beyond that, the reasons for a gap half the size of the U.S. population are not widely understood.’
via Where Have All the Girls Gone? – By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy.
Shakespeare Quarterly – Hamlet
Special edition on Hamlet. Access with RUG library passwords.
Project MUSE – Shakespeare Quarterly – Volume 62, Number 2, Summer 2011.
Fools in Tudor times
This article argues that Tudor fools (including those who feature prominently in Shakespeare’s plays) were people with learning disabilities. It raises some interesting points but needs further investigation.
Critical Theory: Marx, modern French philosophy
Marx was no more responsible for the monstrous oppression of the communist world than Jesus was responsible for the Inquisition via In Praise of Marx.
French Philosophy: ‘The theories of Derrida and Foucault are revisited in this fair-minded history of French deconstructionism, and guess what? It wasn’t all bunkum…’ (book review).
Daybreak Gray and Dim: Whitman & the Civil War
Rose Symbolism
The rose is examined in some detail in Pleasures of the Text. Now someone has written a whole book on the subject. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7175082.ece
