City and Country
Northumbria University in Newcastle on 8th November.In addition to a plenary from Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster), and a paper from Northumbria’s Alexander Cowan, we have a range of exciting speakers, featuring established and emerging talent:
JONATHAN HOPE (Strathclyde University) ‘‘Rustice’/ ‘Countryman’: dialect and linguistic value in Ovid, Golding, and King Lear’
STEPHEN LONGSTAFFE (Cumbria University) ‘Country clowns? Theatrical clowns and the London audience’
JOHN MABBITT (Newcastle University) ‘Town Walls and Civic Identity in the English Revolution’
RÓZSA RÉKA (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) ‘The Encounter of ‘the City’ and ‘the Country’ in Italian Renaissance Comedy’
TOM RUTTER (Sheffield Hallam) ‘Country matters and wilful women: the country, the city, and the Admiral’s Men’
MONIKA SMIALKOWSKA (Doncaster College), ‘The country and the city in the early Stuart court masque’
You can find information about visiting Northumbria University here:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/brochure/visit/campus_branch/
You can also visit the event website at:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/sassevents/nrseminar
Details:
Dr Adam Hansen
Lecturer in English
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Northumbria University
City Campus
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Tel: 0191 232 6002 (switchboard)
Tel: 0191 243 7193
posted by Adam at 9:52 AM
1 Comments:
It seem to disagree with that assessment but he wants to make a plea for understanding; to explain how a beautiful city dubbed the Pearl of the Orient in the early part of the 20th century was bombed flat at the end of the World War II and reborn as a giant shopping mall, whose most celebrated citizen is the shoe-obsessed wife of a disgraced former president.
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