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Notions of Authorship
This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about the authorship.
The 'Notions of Authorship' essay introduces the topic and offers suggestions of how to approach it. It also gives examples of resources from the Great Writers Inspire to explore. The introductory essay is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane... |
Kathryn Sutherland |
| 2 | The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen'... |
Kathryn Sutherland |
| 3 | Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators |
Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great... |
Catherine Brown |
| 4 | What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question. |
In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry,... |
Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rebecca Beasley |
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Key Critical Concepts: Authorship |
In this recording, Emma Smith introduces the concept of authorship as part of our... |
Emma Smith |
| 2 | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored |
Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane... |
Kathryn Sutherland |
| 3 | The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen'... |
Kathryn Sutherland |
| 4 | Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators |
Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great... |
Catherine Brown |
| 5 | What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discussion. |
In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry,... |
Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rebecca Beasley |
| 6 | Why Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| 7 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 8 | George Eliot 3. Reception History |
In this third and final podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses the popularity of George Eliot... |
Catherine Brown |
| 9 | Is there ever a Faithful Translation? |
Second part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether... |
Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" ... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 2 | Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' |
This essay is the second of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 3 | Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' |
This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Plays of William Shakespeare as published in the first folio of 1623 |
ebook version of The Plays of William Shakespeare as published in the first folio of 1623 |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
| 2 | The Watsons |
ebook version of The Watsons |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
| 3 | Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] |
ebook version of Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 |
| 4 | Sense and sensibility | Jane Austen |