Literary Prizes: Recent submissions
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‘ALL HISTORY IS BIOGRAPHY’: RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Published 2020R.W. Emerson’s (1803-1882) philosophy of history has been little discussed and even less understood. Emerson’s thought, outlined both in his poetry and in his Essays, has been variously dismissed as ‘ahistorical’, ...Open AccessText -
Clytemnestra: a reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 'Leda and the Swan'
Published 2021My little sister is born a month early, in a rush of golden afterbirth and crushed feathers. I stand over the tiny body on the rug. Feathers plastered flat against her still chest. Stiff, pale wings curling around her ...Open AccessText -
Sharing the journey: Sixty years of the Royal North Shore Hospital Spinal Unit
Published 2020The HM Moran Prize was established in 1945 from a gift of £250 from Dr HM Moran and is awarded for the best essay. Applicants must submit an essay (maximum 5000 words) on the history of medicine and science.Open AccessText -
The Mythology of Law: Colonial and Anti-Colonial World-Making
Published 2021-05-13Genealogies destabilise representations, empowering us to interrogate the ideologies and relationships of power they sustain. As Amia Srinivasan argues, historians are primarily concerned with the co-origination of ...Open AccessText -
Le Mal du Ciel (the sickness of heaven): An Absurd, Artaudian Play
Published 2021-05-05White strobe lights illuminate the stage. The lights throughout the scene are used to suggest an Artaudian nightmare. The atmosphere is dark, unsettling and nightmarish. Sirens wail, horns beep, dogs howl, the beat of a ...Open AccessText