by chrisa | Dec 15, 2017 | CFPS
“In my craft or sullen art” – Dylan Thomas Thomas is one in a long line who self-reflexively meditates on his own work. Indeed, a writer’s craft has been the topic of much discussion both by critics and by authors themselves, considering the interplay between a...
by chrisa | Nov 30, 2016 | CFPS
Oxford Research in English, Issue 5: Brevity “Since brevity is the soul of wit…” – Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 “Short Talk on Brevity… try to leave the skin quickly, like an alcohol rub. An example, from Emily Tennyson’s grandmother, her complete diary entry...
by chrisa | Dec 27, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Ever since the end of the First World War OUP had been keen to re-establish some sort of presence in the German book trade. Germany had been a significant market for its academic books in the nineteenth century, and a number of German scholars had edited Greek...
by chrisa | Dec 20, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Oxford University was a large mass-producer of books by the 1820s. Despite this, it was still occupying a very elegant but modest-sized neo-classical building in the centre of Oxford designed for it in 1713 by Nicholas Hawksmoor. By the mid-1820s this building was...
