Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe

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Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point.

Achebe deemed Conrad a 'bloody racist', and McDonald considers how Conrad's relationship to language and narrative complicates this.

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Interviews on Great Writers

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 28/08/2012

Duration: 00:15:07

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Weblearn: Improving Admin

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Dr Claire Aland, Director of Anatomy at University of Oxford, talks about how the WebLearn Sign Up tool has galvanised the organisation of anatomy demonstration at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.

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Case Studies In Innovative Practice

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Department: IT Services

Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:03:52

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Europeana 1914-1918: Community Collection

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Alun Edwards, Manager for RunCoCo, University of Oxford, discusses the value of crowd-sourcing and public engagement in the Europeana 1914-1918 project to digitise First World War memorabilia.

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Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:05:26

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23 Things: Oxford

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Laura Wilkinson and Penny Schenk, librarians at the University of Oxford and members of the 23 Things Oxford Team, talk about their blog-based training programme to teach Web 2.0 skills to Oxford librarians.

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Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:06:32

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Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott

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Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world.

By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future.

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:39:02

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The language of Shakespeare

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Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and what they have done to overcome these.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:05:52

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Understanding Shakespeare

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The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

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Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director

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The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses issues related to editing and direction.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:03:43

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The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man

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The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance.

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