Old English in Context Lecture 4 - Manus...

Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford - 31/1/08. 

Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-Saxon society in relation to the literature. 

Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature in its historical and social context. 

<p>Are you a history buff? Maybe you just like reading fantasy books? Maybe you&apos;re watching the newest Game of Thrones prequel or looking forward to the Lord of the Rings TV series. Either way, you&apos;ll want to learn English words and phrases so you can either talk about ... Show More

I apologise for not bringing you a new podcast this week. I leave you with chapter 1 of the Tudor Conspiracy (from an audio book and reader I published a few years ago). Hope to be with you next week with a new podcast episode!Contact Mike Bilbrough with a question or enquiry abo ... Show More

Part 1 of this B1-level short story with vocabulary about the theatre. In this first part, Simon Willoughby is a very shy man but is attracted towards Phillipa, but Phillipa is also a member of the local amateur dramatics group...Contact Mike Bilbrough with a question or enquiry ... Show More

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. Sterne's comic masterpiece is an extravagantly inventive work which was hugely popular when first published in 1759. Its often bawdy humour, and numerous digressions, are combined with bold literary expe ... Show More

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature. 

Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the colonial periphery and back again, ex ... Show More

James Joyce wrote most of the short stories in his landmark collection, Dubliners, when he was still in his 20s, but a tortuous publishing history, during which printers refused or pulped them for their profanity, meant they weren’t published until 1914, when Joyce was 33. In the ... Show More

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Library Of Babel" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the structure of the library in which human beings live their entir ... Show More

"Western Conceptions of the Orient" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Edward W. Said Category: History