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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Myth of Productivity: Interrogating Forest through the lens of Barthes’ Mythologies
by Nathaniel Ogle Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay examines the modern myth of...
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 8 min
The Body, the Soul and the Law in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
by Cameron Christie Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract At its core, Shakespeare’s ‘Julius...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 10 min
Mapping the site of the gendered body in Potter's Orlando (1992)
by Helena Young Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract (Title reference: see note 1). Over the past...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 10 min
Spiritual awakening and social change in S.T. Coleridge and P.B. Shelley
by Helena Lewis Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay argues that S.T. Coleridge’s ‘The...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 13 min
Considering Nightcrawler (2014) as a modern adaptation of Don Quixote
by Kitty Doherty Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay analyses Don Quixote in line...
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- Mar 27, 2019
- 10 min
Critiques of the Sadean Male in Angela Carter’s 'The Bloody Chamber'
by Hannah Wardle Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract Angela Carter’s controversial 1979...
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- Mar 27, 2019
- 3 min
A Close Reading of the Closing Scene of Call Me By Your Name (2017)
by Mollie Simpson Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract In this essay, I attempt to outline the...
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- Mar 27, 2019
- 8 min
A Close Reading of Joyce’s Ulysses (pg. 33, ll. 3-25)
by Ciara Healy Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract Joyce's Ulysses is widely considered to be...
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- Mar 27, 2019
- 11 min
"This is madness": The Liminal Space Between Sanity and Insanity in Virginia Woolf’s 'Mrs Dalloway'
by Hana Jafar Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract This essay is a focussed close reading on the...
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