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The Beautiful and the Damned
"I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." - F. Scott-Fitzgerald When the phrase ‘famous women’ is typed into Google some familiar faces meet your eye: Princess Diana, Elizabeth I and shockingly – Jennifer Aniston. Out of thousands of years of history, are these t...
by Eleanor Fry
12th May 2010 Views: 160
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Wilde Times and High Stars
Back in the day – the early twentieth century, to be precise – you couldn’t have fame and celebrity without the written word. Newspaper stories created windows through which notorious figures co...
by Gabrielle Hovedon
12th May 2010 Views: 151
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Brutal is Beautiful
A defence of the less-photographed buildings of the university. Most colleges bare a concrete scar. It sits protruding, unsympathetic to its surroundings. Yours may look like a car park, a prison, or, in the words of Bill Bryson, “a toaster with windows”, but it’l...
by Jack Taylor
12th May 2010 Views: 426
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Rediscovering the classics: The Battle of Maldon
Jane Taylor takes another look at an acknowledged classic "Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred"
These lines from Tennyson’s poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ memorialises the British soldiers w...
by Jane Taylor
4th June 2009 Views: 370
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Agatha Christie
Robert Holtom investigates the enduring allure of Agatha Christie, novelist, playwright, lover Name a few famous female authors. Austen, obviously. Plath, perhaps. Woolf, on a bad day. But there will be one great name that you will have forgotten. The name of an authoress outsold only by the Bi...
by Robert Holtom
4th June 2009 Views: 236
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Ali Smith interview
Olivia Wakefiled talks novels, short stories and unwanted fame with the Whitbread Award winner Ali Smith A few heads turn as Ali Smith wanders through the door of a sleepy west London cafe. It doesn’t surprise me given the sparkling success of her work so far; this unprecedented popularity has seen her b...
by Olivia Wakefield
4th June 2009 Views: 328
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Pages and pages
Richard O'Brien tries to write a poem a day for a month. 'Never write a limerick again.' This is the advice one friend gives to me following the ignominious collapse of the blog I'd been keeping through most of April, America's National Poetry Month. (For s...
by Richard O'Brien
3rd June 2009 Views: 344
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The legend of good women
Yunnan Chen goes in search of female role models in literature. Prior to writing the novel Emma, Jane Austen wrote of her eponymous protagonist that ‘I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like’. Oh, how this truth rings through time. Aspiri...
by Yunnan Chen
3rd June 2009 Views: 280
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They’ve created a monster
Emma Gilbert investigates canonicity, Conan-Doyle, and cephalopods. I’m fond of illustrative experiments, and decided to carry one out while at home last weekend. ‘All right,’ I said, having doled out paper and pencils to a reluctant sister and parental units. ‘Draw m...
by Emma Gilbert
3rd June 2009 Views: 274
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Diran Abelbayo
Diran Adebayo is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. He talks fetishes, literary loves and Harry Potter with Gini Sharvill. So let’s start with the basics - my favourite novel is Jude the Obscure, probably because I first read it when I was applying to Oxford, aka “Christminster”. What is your favourite novel and, more imp...
by Gini Sharvill
3rd June 2009 Views: 262
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For All Occasions
Wendy Cope, award-winning poet and ex-student of St Hilda’s, gives Etcetera an idea of her reading habits. Wendy Cope, award-winning poet and ex-student of St Hilda’s, gives Etcetera an idea of her reading habits. We asked:
What is your favourite book...
...ever?
The Co...
by Gini Sharvill and Claire Little
3rd June 2009 Views: 215
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A is for Amis
Paul Sweeten scales the peaks of the grand canon. The Eng Lit canon is perhaps the most intimidating prospect a young undergraduate could ever behold. From Auden to Woolf, Chaucer to Palahniuk, the staple texts alone – those which every self-respecti...
by Paul Sweeten
3rd June 2009 Views: 253
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How to enjoy reading
Dan Rolle gets hot under the collar as he contemplates his relationship with Literature IIf you get off the Parisian Metro at Châtelet and walk down Rue St Denis, you will witness a spectacle that is integral to any understanding of literature today. As you exit the Metro through the su...
by Dan Rolle
3rd June 2009 Views: 241
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Rediscovering the Classics: Homer's Odyssey
In the first of a new series, Deng Xiao Ping rediscovers Homer's great epic poem. It’s difficult to deny the magnificence of the Odyssey, both one of the earliest and one of the greatest works of Western literature. Homer’s second epic is endlessly studied and scrutinized, one of t...
by Deng Xiao Ping
27th May 2009 Views: 294
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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: 356
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