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POETRY TOWN
Spring 2007
Programme
The following events take
place at the University of St Andrews throughout
the fall. All events are free and open to the
public.
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‘The
State of the Genre’
Crime Fiction Masterclass
What is happening
to the contemporary crime novel? What new shapes
has the genre assumed in the new millennium?
Is it still possible to regard ‘crime
fiction’ as an homogeneous genre, and
if so, what is its purpose and what are its
anxieties and concerns? What has become of the
detective in the past twenty years? And what
is the shape of the contemporary killer? Why
does crime remain such a popular and powerful
form of fiction? Are new trends in crime writing
becoming evident in response to changing international
and domestic events, and what conclusions might
we draw from the success of writers as diverse
as Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith?
To answer these and many
more questions, the School of English at the
University of St Andrews is holding a one day
Crime Fiction Masterclass on ‘The State
of the Genre’. A series of leading academics
and writers, including Stephen Knight, Susan
Rowland, Paul Johnston, Denise Mina and Ian
Rankin, will discuss the concerns of crime fiction
today, from both an academic and a creative
perspective.
The event is free and members
of the public are welcome, but they must register
in advance with the School of English (01334
462666). To view the event poster, click here
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University
of St Andrews
The English Seminar Programme
Semester 2, 2006/07
The School of English at
the University of St Andrews is delighted to
welcome the following visiting speakers for
our guest seminar programme for Semester 2.
Unless otherwise stated, all events are open
to the public and admission is free. For further
information please contact the School of English
office, telephone (01334) 462666.
| Arts Seminar Building Room 1 |
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‘Law, Evidence and Fiction’
(Early Modern Studies in Scotland Colloquium) |
| Castle House Room 30 |
(UCLA) |
‘Vampires on the London Stage’ |
| School 2, St Salvator’s Quad |
(Trinity
College Cambridge) |
‘Writing histories of reading’ |
Castle House Room 30 |
(Emory University) |
T.S. Eliot’s uncollected prose |
| Castle House Room 30 |
(University of Virginia) |
‘Tobias Smollett, Jacobinism and
Scottish Nationalism’ |
Parliament Hall |
Crime writing masterclass: The state of
the genre |
| Castle House Room 30 |
(Nottingham) |
‘Cardenio: Shakespeare’s lost
play?’ |
| Castle House Room 30 |
John Keats and Wilfred Owen |
| Castle House Room 30 |
(Newcastle) |
‘Edward Said, Exile and Autobiography’
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| Castle House Room 30 |
George Jack Memorial lecture |
Castle House Room 30 |
(University of Indiana) |
‘Contemporary American Political
Rhetoric’ |
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| UNIVERSITY
OF ST ANDREWS ST
ANDREWS SCOTTISH STUDIES CENTRE
SEMINARS
(Candlemas Semester 2007)
Seminar
Room 6, School of Art History 9 The Scores.
(Director, The Hospitalfield
Trust, Arbroath) will speak on ‘Hospitalfield:
A Workshop in Time’
Castle House Room
30 School of English, The Scores
(Author: 'Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic
Freemasonry and Stuart Culture, Brill, 2002;
‘Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and
the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision’,
Random House, 2006) will speak on ‘Spies,
Mind-Readers, and Secret Societies: some Eighteenth-Century
Scots Abroad’
Castle House Room 30
School of English, The Scores (Bonar Chair of Modern
History, University of Dundee) will speak about
his new book published by Edinburgh University
Press, 2006
The Scots and the Union
For further information
please contact
the St Andrews Scottish Studies Centre Office,
tel. (01334) 462667 |
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