Burglar, ghost, fiend, poet, drunk and hero
William Empson
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Why Edgar is more like Bevis than lunatic Poor Tom
The English Romance in Time
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First Impressions
This week's competition to identify a book from its opening sentence is from a Norwegian novel of rural life: "The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first...
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Rereading the Bard as Bonnefoy
Shakespeare and the French Poet
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Looking in the long shadows of life
The Contemporary Irish Novel
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An inverted pyramid that says it all
A History of French Literature
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Two cows, one enigma
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
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Textbook examples of character assassination
Crime in Literature
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US war on plagiarism takes first UK scalp
An escalating war against academic plagiarism in the US looks set to spread to the UK after claiming its first English scalp. Following a spate of claims of plagiarism by academics in the US, The...
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CO2 gas turns Earth orbit into junkyard
Greenhouse gases are not only destroying our world they are also making space increasingly unsafe, causing a ring of debris to accumulate around the Earth, researchers have warned. Scientists at...
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'Pope John Paul II had extraordinary charisma and a world presence'
Theologist Paul D. Murray examines the challenges facing Pope John Paul II's successor Paul D. Murray, a specialist in modern Roman Catholic theology at Durham University, refuses to predict who will...
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On the move...
* St Martin's College, Lancaster, has awarded the following titles: David Manning , research co-ordinator, professor of medical imaging; Hilary Cooper , former reader in education, professor of...
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Exam boards unveil SAT rival
A new contender for a proposed national test to identify the relative strengths and potential of university applicants was unveiled this week by an international partnership of exam boards....
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Hepatitis B carriers may be allowed to train as doctors
Students with the highly infectious liver disease hepatitis B may soon be allowed to train as doctors after a review by the Government and universities, The Times Higher can reveal. At the moment...
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Free Willy, Moby Dick... it suddenly becomes clear
A "most dreadful" sea monster that was sighted off the coast of Greenland in the 18th century may have been an excited whale with an impressive erection, researchers have revealed, writes Anna...