J.A. Burrow is Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol. His books include A Reading of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’.
It is very fitting that a book dealing largely with the various ways in which the human life-span has been neatly divided into ‘ages’ should itself have an elegant and symmetrical...
It is a current preoccupation on the Left, more fashionable now among many students of English than Post-Structuralism, that English Literature as an academic subject is a conspiracy of the...
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