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    The Myth of Productivity: Interrogating Forest through the lens of Barthes’ Mythologies
    • 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,...
    518 views1 comment
    • 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...
    179 views0 comments
    • 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...
    190 views0 comments
    • 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...
    80 views0 comments
    • 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...
    217 views0 comments
    • 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...
    2,917 views0 comments
    • 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...
    39 views0 comments
    • 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...
    103 views0 comments
    • 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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    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 12 min

    'Deor' & 'Wulf and Eadwacer': A Translation With Commentary

    by Jasmine Ketch-Neumann Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract As part of a module examining the...
    1,504 views0 comments
    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 12 min

    Nationalism and Feminism in Eavan Boland’s Poetry

    by Catrin Stewart Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract This essay is a discussion of Eavan...
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    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 10 min

    'Political community' and the Figure of the Refugee in Mohsin Hamid’s 'Exit West'

    by Rebecca Bevington Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Abstract As the future of the nation state is...
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    Polyphony, n. 
    The style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.