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Mathematical Structure in Fiction

Mathematical concepts have often been used to create new structural forms in fiction, as in the works of Raymond Queneau and Jorge Luis Borges.

Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change

Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa

Literature has always played a key role in social and...

Writing after Windrush

They came, they saw, they felt conquered. Turning to the...

Literary London Crime: The Dark Eyes of London

London is a city of secrets, a shifting, seething mass...

Is Matter Evil?

A dialogue with Philip Pullman's complex 'Dark Materials' trilogy which provides a framework for discussing how human beings relate to the material world, and the origin of evil.

News on the Roll

The UK's two principal rolling news channels are Sky News...

A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300

During the thirteenth century Jerusalem surplanted Rome as the inspiration...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and Poetic Technique

In the line, 'The Western wave was aflame', the 'Western wave' refers to the sea. But is it this simple? What do forms of substitution, synecdoche for example, lend to this magnificent and shadowy poem?

The Early River Thames: The Iron Age and Before

The lecture will examine the changing shape of the Thames Valley (the London end in particular), evidence of population movement and urban growth and the appearance of agricultural and industrial activity from the earliest times to the arrival of the Romans.

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