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From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant collection contains inspirational short talks freely available to the public and the education community worldwide. This series is aimed primarily at first year undergraduates but will be of interest to school students preparing for university and anyone who would like to know more about the world's great writers. The talks were produced as part of the Great Writers Inspire Project which makes a significant body of material freely available on the subject of great works of literature and their authors. Visit writersinspire.org/ to see how great writers can inspire you
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| 1 | Creative Commons | Oscar Wilde's Women | Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. | Sophie Duncan | 19 Sep 2012 |
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| 2 | Creative Commons | Great Writers Inspire Great Writing | Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers. | Alex Pryce | 19 Sep 2012 |
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| 3 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling | Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'. | Julian Thompson | 19 Sep 2012 |
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| 4 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Sir Walter Scott | Dr Julian Thompson introduces 'the least read great writer in our literature'. He describes the popularly of Walter Scott in his own time and suggests some highlights of the 'living Scots' of his fiction. | Julian Thompson | 01 Aug 2012 |
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| 5 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and Voice | Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. | Linda Gates | 01 Aug 2012 |
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| 6 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 | Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Helena Kennedy | 19 Jul 2012 |
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| 7 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 | Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'. | Judith Luna | 19 Jul 2012 |
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| 8 | Creative Commons | What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 | Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. | Ankhi Mukherjee | 19 Jul 2012 |
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| 9 | Creative Commons | Dickens's Points of View | Professor Jon Mee, University of Warwick, discusses how Dickens's fiction can be considered 'cinematic' by drawing attention to the shifting points of view in Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, and other novels. | Jon Mee | 14 Jun 2012 |
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| 10 | Creative Commons | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored | Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family life but also her writing style and techniques. | Kathryn Sutherland | 08 Jun 2012 |
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| 11 | Creative Commons | The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising | Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel "The Watsons" and what we can learn about her from these. | Kathryn Sutherland | 08 Jun 2012 |
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| 12 | Creative Commons | Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project | A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project. | Joshua Carr | 23 May 2012 |
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| 13 | Creative Commons | 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, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about greatness in writing. | Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee | 15 May 2012 |
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| 14 | Creative Commons | Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins | Dr. Julian Thompson considers how Wilkie Collins's fiction was pioneering across a variety of genres, including detective fiction and gothic thrillers. | Julian Thompson | 15 May 2012 |
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| 15 | Creative Commons | Chaucer | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century. | Daniel Wakelin | 17 Apr 2012 |
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| 16 | Creative Commons | Ezra Pound | Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure in early 20th Century poetry movements. | Rebecca Beasley | 10 Apr 2012 |
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| 17 | Creative Commons | Mary Leapor | Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society. | Jennifer Batt | 27 Mar 2012 |
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