Great Writers Inspire
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Updated 22 May 2013 | 4 episodesThe annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend aims to showcase the Collegiate University as a whole, giving prominence to a range of current research and its application to real world situations, as well as recognising the achievements of Oxford...
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Updated 20 Nov 2012 | 21 episodesEach lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series...
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Updated 12 Jan 2010 | 5 episodesThe issues surrounding the state censorship of literature in Apartheid era South Africa are discussed in this series between Peter McDonald and other academics at Oxford University. In this series Peter discusses the legal, political and literary...
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Updated 15 May 2012 | 1 episodeCrime Fiction is a continuingly popular genre that has never been more highly esteemed than now. This day school offers two overviews - of detective fiction in general and of Oxford crime fiction in particular - as well as offering the...
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Updated 19 Mar 2012 | 14 episodesLecture Series looking at D.H. Lawrence, author of Women in Love, Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. These lectures focus on specific aspects of Lawrence's writing; from his use of humour to his views on Christianity.
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Updated 19 Dec 2012 | 1 episodeThe Department welcomed members of the public by the hundreds to this year's Open Day, 14 November. Guests attended 33 events - short lectures, workshops, informational sessions and walking tours - all free of charge. Here is a small...
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Updated 19 Jul 2012 | 3 episodesA selection of recordings from the English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, 1 June 2012. The conference theme was Return to the Political: Literary Aesthetics and the Influence of Political Thought and featured student presentations and...
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Updated 10 Apr 2013 | 4 episodesEnglish tutorials at Mansfield college with tutors and their students.
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Updated 20 Feb 2013 | 2 episodesA series of short introductory talks from experts in the field presenting new perspectives on the First World War. Produced by the University of Oxford.
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Updated 05 Dec 2011 | 3 episodesThis mini-series is intended to introduce George Eliot to undergraduates. The first lecture ranges widely across her works, including her atypical novella 'The Lifted Veil'. It notes the power and range of Eliot's intellect, and...
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Updated 19 Sep 2012 | 50 episodesFrom Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant collection contains inspirational short talks freely available to the public and the education community worldwide. This series is aimed primarily at...
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Updated 12 Dec 2011 | 2 episodesTen short podcasts on quirky aspects of eighteenth-century life. This series of short podcasts offers an alternative history of the eighteenth century. Ten poems were chosen that illustrate the everyday and the extraordinary, the comic and the...
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Updated 15 Nov 2012 | 2 episodesHumanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld,...
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Updated 26 Mar 2013 | 7 episodesA series of interviews with academic experts on a number of great writers. Part of the Great Writers Inspire project.
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Updated 21 May 2012 | 8 episodesLecture series looking at key concepts in studying Literature; including lectures on the concept of unreliable narrators to theory of comparative literature. This series was filmed in the English Faculty in Trinity Term 2012
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Updated 08 Nov 2011 | 4 episodesPodcasts exploring the relationship between literary works and the artwork and Oxford. From J.R.R Tolkien to Philip Pullman, authors have been inspired by Oxford; the architecture, history and culture of the city. This podcast series includes...
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Updated 08 Feb 2008 | 9 episodesPodcasts of Medieval English lectures, and supporting material, presented at the English Faculty, University of Oxford.
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Updated 29 May 2012 | 1 episodePodcasts from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, delivered in a variety of languages.
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Updated 30 Oct 2012 | 2 episodesOxford’s English Faculty will offer students the opportunity to undertake a Master’s in English Language for the first time from October 2012. Learn more about this brand new course and gain an insight into the area from some of Oxford’s experts...
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Updated 24 Nov 2009 | 6 episodesThis series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in...
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Updated 27 Nov 2009 | 19 episodesA five-part lecture series delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford in October/November 2009. They are introductory lectures aimed at first-year students, taking them through Old English language and literature, its...
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Updated 28 Feb 2012 | 2 episodesShort interesting lectures from top Oxford academics. Includes a series of short lectures about love, held on Valentines Day 2011.
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Updated 13 Feb 2012 | 1 episodeSamuel Johnson (18 September 1709 to 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and...
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Updated 02 Dec 2010 | 4 episodesFew families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. The Bodleian online exhibition 'Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family'...
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Updated 23 Aug 2012 | 10 episodesStaging Shakespeare is series of video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of two plays- 'The Tempest' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. An English teacher also explains how she uses IT...
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Updated 22 May 2013 | 20 episodesThe Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library-the Bodleian Library-which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years; major...
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Updated 29 May 2012 | 1 episodeThe Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Annual lecture in the History of Ideas) is held at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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Updated 25 Jul 2011 | 9 episodesManifold greatness: Oxford Celebrations of the King James Bible 1611-2011. Lecture series held in Corpus Christi College to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the first publication of the King James Bible.
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Updated 01 Mar 2010 | 4 episodesTragedy has been around for over 2500 years, from its earliest manifestations in the huge open-air gathering-places of Athens and other Greek city-states, to the theatres of Renaissance England, Spain and France, right through to the twentieth...
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Updated 27 Jul 2010 | 4 episodesIn four short dialogues, Oliver Taplin, Emeritus Professor in the Oxford University Classics Department and Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Classical Receptions in Late Twentieth Century Drama and Poetry in...
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Updated 04 Apr 2013 | 6 episodesWolfson is the largest graduate college in Oxford. Our diverse student body has a wide spread of disciplines and nationalities. The College is both traditional and unconventional, forward thinking and friendly.
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