- Mar 14, 2023
- 11 min
Dynamic Fluctuations of Acting and Spectating in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream
By Alexandra Robinson, Polyphony Volume 5, Issue 1. First published on 7th of March 2023. Mutability, defined as a ‘disposition to...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 8 min
Trees as Characters: Challenging the Anthropocene through Non-Human Drama in Powers' The Overstory
By Luke Bryan, Polyphony Volume 4, Issue 2. First published on 24th of June 2022. In The Future of Environmental Criticism, Lawrence...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
The Red Pill in the Green Knight: The Games Outside the Identity Matrix
By Carys Richards, Polyphony Volume 3, Issue 3. First published 28th July 2021. In her seminal 1994 article on Sir Gawain and the Green...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 13 min
Modernist Men and Women: Constructions of Gender in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and H.D.
by Amy Hagan Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay analyses the poems of H.D. and T.S....
- Apr 27, 2020
- 10 min
The Ruin (ii): Translation and Commentary
by Seren Morgan-Roberts Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester During this commentary, I will discuss my...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 10 min
Do we truly need a "true sex"? A Foucauldian analysis of Herculine Barbin
by Amber Barry Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay uses Foucauldian ideas and medical...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 12 min
The Ruin (i) - Translation and Commentary
by Sally Hamriding Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester The Anglo-Saxon elegy The Ruin is often cited as a...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Papa John's Elegy
by Lauryn Berry Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester I may be tipsy as I write this but I think even a...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 13 min
The Fragmentation of Sappho: Materiality and Translation
by Kitty Doherty Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay focuses upon the literary figure...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 11 min
The Wanderer: A Translation with Commentary
by Thomas Hunnisett Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester The Wanderer (1-50) “Always the lonely one...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Manchester in Haikus
by Ellie Ormerod Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester A choked skyline; the necks of towers, gripped by...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 29 min
‘“What is Cunt?” she said’: Obscenity, Concealment and Representations of the Vulva in D.H Lawrence
by Isabella Rooke-Ley Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay asks: what is cunt— or,...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 10 min
Emotional legitimacy and Yeats's 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'
by Hana Jafar Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract As a close reading of ‘An Irish Airman...