January 2010
New Posts at the School of English
The School of English is recruiting eight new lectureship posts in the following areas: Applied Linguistics (two), Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature, and Theatre (two), to be advertised later this month.
Recent Publications
The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam
The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), by Adam Piette. Written with the help of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2003, this book looks at writers such as Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg, Vladimir Nabokov, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Grace Paley, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The book looks at the special relationship as a form of paranoid plotline governing key Anglo-American texts as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer caught up in the sacrificial triangles structuring cold war fantasy. The book aims to consolidate and define a new emergent field in literary studies, the literary Cold War, following the lead of prominent historians of the period.
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