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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...
Mar 14, 202311 min read
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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, 20228 min read
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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...
Oct 11, 20226 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 20206 min read
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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, 202013 min read
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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, 202010 min read
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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, 202010 min read
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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, 202012 min read
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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, 202013 min read
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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, 202011 min read
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‘“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, 202029 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 202010 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 20208 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 202010 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 202010 min read
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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...
Apr 27, 202013 min read
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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...
Mar 27, 201910 min read
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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...
Mar 27, 20193 min read
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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...
Mar 27, 20198 min read
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"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...
Mar 27, 201911 min read
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