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Oliver Goldsmith - Life and Works
No full textThe short essay offers an introduction to Oliver Goldsmith's life and works
Twentieth-Century Poets: a Selection with Notes
No full text"Twentieth-Century Poets: a Selection with Notes" is an introduction to the changing hues of twentieth-century poetry. Ranging from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney, the book proposes commentary on seminal poems through the presentation of context, core ideas, textual analysis and key critical interpretations
Fictionalizing Keats's Last Journey: the Young Man and the Sea
No full textIn September 1820, Keats left London on board the Maria Crowther. This paper uncovers the symbolic value of the journey: the sea is a non-place, the Maria Crowther a heterotopia; they are “Great Separators”, incommensurable distances between London and Rome, past and present, life and death. The literary echoes contained in Keats’s and Severn’s letters show that the voyage has a narrative structure and can thus be compared to the "Ancient Mariner"’s wait at sea, to Dante’s crossing of the Acheron, to the shipwreck in "Don Juan", and to Leigh Hunt’s tumultuous sea voyage (1821-2)
Modernism
No full textThe book offers a comprehensive introduction to Modernism and some of its founding poetic texts. The first part of the book contains an introductory essay, which explores the challenges and novelties (formal, thematic, epistemological) of Modernism. The second part offers a selection of Modernist poetry (i.e. T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence)
An Introduction to Gray and Goldsmith (2011)
No full textGray and Goldsmith are here presented as the most eminent Pre-Romantic writers. The book provides comprehensive introductions to their lives and a selection of their most notable works, duly annotated
"The Sweet Taste of Halal": religious slaughter within the institutional discourse community in the UK
No full textThis article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse community with reference to Muslim religious slaughter. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Muslim Organisations Working Group are observed in their efforts to improve knowledge and awareness of halal slaughter among food and meat industry operators in the UK through the production of ad hoc documents. Firstly, an introduction to halal (etymological, semantic and legal) is provided in order to foreground its relevance as a cultural-religious concept, which must be accommodated within the UK (host) culture. Secondly, two documents are analysed: the Code of Practice for Halal Slaughter and the Guidance Note on Halal Food Issues. The former was drafted by the Muslim Organisations Working Group, it is addressed to meat industry workers and aims at providing standard guidelines for the correct practice of halal slaughter; the latter was drafted by the FSA in order to improve awareness of issues connected to halal slaughter among food law enforcements officers. The analysis will show UK institutions in their commitment to cross-cultural integration and to the popularisation of halal
An Introduction to Gray and Goldsmith
No full textThe book offers introductions to both Gray's and Goldsmith's lives, as well as an annotated selection of their most relevant works
Thomas Gray - Life and Works
No full textThe essay is a brief introduction to Thomas Gray's life and works
"The Almighty, indeed, sent the Potato Blight, but the English Created the Famine." Reactions in Poetry and Politics to the Great Irish Famine.
No full textThe Great Irish Famine is the historical-literary
place where politics meet sociology, history
meets legend, catastrophe meets literature, and
human experience becomes narrative. It is
strikingly modern; it is fertile ground for
interdisciplinarity, and the best observatory for a true
appreciation of how literature can contain the complete
spectrum of human experience. In the light of so much
“food for thought” I propose the classroom exploration
of select aspects of famine Ireland. I set out with the
following student learning objectives: students should
develop sufficient awareness of the basic historical and
cultural facts concerning the famine in order to
understand that mass starvation in Ireland resulted from
natural as well as ‘artificial’ (i.e. political, cultural, racial)
causes; it is important they realize that food production,
consumption and distribution are strictly connected with
politics. The quick study of select passages from Lady
Jane Wilde’s poem "The Famine Year" will provide students
with textual evidence of the famine, and will stimulate
awareness as to the elaborative, symbolic and social
function of the literary text. All through the learning
process students will be made aware of the linguistic
instruments needed to deal with historical and literary
matters. This article is a concise outline of the contents
of my proposal; which is particularly
suited for students attending their last year of high
school
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