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A Continental Battle
Anna Kaleva, a native Bulgarian, discusses the importance of national idenity in her home country's literature South-eastern Europeans today know they are truly part of the old continent. These are the nations that had to keep fighting to protect their European identity from when the Ottoman Empire took over i...
by Anna Kaleva
26th June 2008 Views: 50
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Losing Tolstoy
Exploring the unique relationship between translator and text You’re in Oxford, and you’re reading about European literature. It’s a fairly safe bet that, as a child, you had one or two embarrassingly precocious moments. Don’t worry; they’ll make charming anecdo...
by Michael Docherty
26th June 2008 Views: 135
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Let us take pleasure, therefore...
Etcetera takes a wanton peek at the hedonism, heathenism and hopeless opium addictions associated with the continent Decadence knows no tomorrow…it is childish to believe in the writer’s immortality, deceitful to lack the courage to sustain one’s intellectual pleasure. Let us take pleasure, therefore…”
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by Gini Sharvill
26th June 2008 Views: 195
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Over the counter culture
Etcetera scrutinises the authenticity of the revolution It's been forty years since Martin Luther King's ideals of peaceful protest dissolved with his assassination, forty years since rioters tore across Paris and Washington while war raged in Vietnam and,...
by Michael Docherty
20th May 2008 Views: 292
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The library without books
The ethics of censorship considered Yesterday I walked into Waterstones and flicked through the Satanic Verses. Nobody batted an eyelid, and I could have bought it, no questions asked. However, this book is the reason that a fatwa remai...
by Sorcha McDonagh
20th May 2008 Views: 83
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Hamlet unmasked: the threatening performance
We explore the hidden world of an Arabic Shakespeare and the dangers of acting out Theatre has been used as an outlet for radicalism and controversy as much as any other literature in the UK, be it due to a naked Harry Potter in Equus or political dramas such as those by David Hare ...
by Gini Sharvill
20th May 2008 Views: 113
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A terrible pleasure?
Mohsin Khan steps into the decadent world of fin de siècle art and literature We think of art as a finished product: the painting, the book, the movie. But what if you could think of the artist as a work of art too? Michel Foucault certainly thought you could. He proclaimed tha...
by Mohsin Khan
15th May 2008 Views: 95
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Etcetera Diary No.3
The last Etcetera Diary of Hilary 2008, brought to you by Michael Docherty With this issue's visual theme in mind, I hereby demand that you treat your eager optic nerves to some stimulation, perhaps by taking them on a trip to Modern Art Oxford, where, until the 2nd of March...
by Michael Docherty
10th May 2008 Views: 83
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Turning a new leaf
Etcetera takes a cursory glance at Oxford's literay imps, The Inklings 'The Inklings' are hardly a new group on the proverbial block. As a legendary circle of Oxford academics of the 1930s and '40s, the name has all the fusty air of elbow-patch and pipe-smoke-infused Oxo...
by Victoria Andrenkova
10th May 2008 Views: 78
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Defending the doodlers
Could graphic novels ever be considered great works of literature? Can pictures make books a more enriching experience? Michael Docherty thinks so…
In my youth or, more accurately, when I was a bored 15-year-old dozing my way through GCSE Art, I decide...
by Michael Docherty
6th May 2008 Views: 82
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Etcetera Diary No.2
We muse on the creative promise offered by Hilary Term 2008 In the midst of the Oxford workload and with the end-of-term wind-down a distant glimmer in the future, are you looking for some relaxation and escapism? Would you like it tinged with cultural enrichm...
by Mohsin Khan and Kayleigh Wiggins
5th May 2008 Views: 81
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Word of Mouth: Le Città by Italo Calvino
Foreign literature, magical realism, philosophy and fantasy Venturing into foreign literature can often feel like a voyage in itself. Turning the pages, we find ourselves steeped in a sea of foreign mentalities, landscapes, languages, cuisines… Wandering into ...
by Victoria Andrenkova
4th May 2008 Views: 58
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Sex between the lines
Texts that tease - when literature flirts with the reader Novelists are, by nature, flirts. Utter teases. Sustaining desire while denying absolute satisfaction, the novelist dangles and withholds. Writers (good ones at least) are terribly skilled at toying a...
by Durga Chew-Bose
4th May 2008 Views: 118
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Poetry in motion
Performance poetry - weird or wonderful? Any event called 'Death Match: Haiku against Haiku' is going to be memorable. Performance poetry, like hip-hop, involves a type of 'battle'. In hip-hop, rappers take turns to level personal insults at...
by Karis Fiorrucci and Kayleigh Wiggins
3rd May 2008 Views: 85
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Could you write a novel in a month?
A few thousand words a day? Should be a cakewalk... The pain of explaining to people outside Oxford that, yes, you really do have more work than you can cope with, is familiar to us all. The three or four years of student life are supposed to be a time...
by Lianna Pike and Elizabeth Sutcliffe
3rd May 2008 Views: 251
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