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Fantasy Literature
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Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature

An analysis of two forms that dominate fantasy literature.
Fantasy Literature
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Guy Gavriel Kay

A short introduction to the writer Guy Gavriel Kay.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Books for mind and community in 12th-century Oxford and Cirencester

In this talk Andrew Dunning (Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Fellow) traces the development of the work of Alexander Neckam, one of the earliest known lecturers in Oxford, through manuscripts housed at the Bodleian.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

Jonathan Bate, Anne Farrar Donovan, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet
First World War Poetry Digital Archive

New Perspectives 1: Georgians and Others

Short presentation as part of the Oxford 'British Poetry of the First World War' Spring School
Merton College

The Sitwells, Sitwellism and Sitwelliana

A talk given by Dr Deborah Longworth of the University of Birmingham to celebrate the donation of the Neil Ritchie Sitwell Collection to Merton College.
Oscar Wilde

3. Art and Morality

Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend.
Challenging the Canon

Information about Great Writers Inspire

Further information about the educational resource: http://writersinspire.org.
Challenging the Canon

Why should we study medieval romance?

Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study medieval romance.
Challenging the Canon
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Why should we study the humanities?

For those wanting a further challenge, Professor Helen Small of Pembroke College, Oxford, discusses the difficulties facing the study of the humanities today.
Approaching Shakespeare

Richard II

Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II: does the play suggest Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of the king was justified?

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