ENGLISH LITERATURE

Apr 27
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 productivity through th...

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Apr 27
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. Eliot in relation to...

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Apr 27
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 translation of The Ruin...

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Apr 27
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 reports in order to...

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Apr 27
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 particularly challe...

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Apr 27
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 of Sappho in order ...

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Apr 27
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 endures, His mind anxious,...

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Apr 27
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, rather, what does the f...

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Apr 27
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 foresees his Death’, this e...

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Apr 27
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 Caesar’ is about whether w...

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Apr 27
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 few years, transgen...

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Apr 27
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 Rime of the Ancient...

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Apr 27
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 with the 2014 film Nigh...

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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 collection of short stories,...

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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 key cinematic techniqu...

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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 one of the greatest no...

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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 question of how Virg...

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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 writings of the Anglo...

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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 Boland’s status as a nati...

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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 pushed ever closer to...

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