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‘Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use’ - William Dyer
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Displaying 1 - 50 of 3810| Format | Title | Author/Contributor | Source | Date Published |
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| Video | Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature | Katherine Olley | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/verse-and-prose-fantasy-literature | 16 Dec 2020 |
| Video | Guy Gavriel Kay: A Short Introduction | Katherine Olley | University of Oxford Podcasts | 16 Dec 2020 |
| Other | Shakespeare & the plague | Emma Smith | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=082EH-78iEU | 14 Dec 2020 |
| Audio | E.E. Cummings: A Pagan Modernist | Alison Rosenblitt | 29 Oct 2020 | |
| Essay | E.E. Cummings | Alison Rosenblitt | 29 Oct 2020 | |
| Audio | Series Two Episode One: Introducing the Modern Fairies Project | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-one-introducing-modern-fairies-project | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Audio | Series Two Episode Two: Fairy Time and Space | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-two-fairy-time-and-space | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Audio | Series Two Episode Three: Fairies and Children | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-three-fairies-and-children | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Audio | Series Two Episode Four: Fairies and the Environment | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-four-fairies-and-environment | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Audio | Series Two Episode Five: Fairy and Other Transformations | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-five-fairy-and-other-transformations | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Essay | King Alfred the Great | Francis Leneghan | 18 Sep 2020 | |
| Essay | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Daniele Nunziata | 11 Aug 2020 | |
| Essay | Chinua Achebe | Daniele Nunziata | 11 Aug 2020 | |
| Audio | What Tolkien learnt from Beowulf: Representations of Evil | Rafael J. Pascual | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-tolkien-learnt-beowulf-representations-evil | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Essay | Hand Signals from Beyond | Julian Thompson | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | Key Critical Concepts: Metaphor | William Ghosh | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | Key Critical Concepts: Authorship | Emma Smith | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | The Modern American Novel: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | African American Literature: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | Hilary Mantel - Bart Van Es and Helen Small in Conversation about Third-Person Narrative in the Cromwell Trilogy | Helen Small, Bart van Es | 05 Jun 2020 | |
| Video | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Carolyne Larrington | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sylvia-townsend-warner | 05 Jun 2020 |
| Essay | How Short Can a Short Poem Be? | Julian Thompson | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| Essay | ‘Not Like Normal People’: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Sally Rooney’s Normal People | Julian Thompson | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| Essay | This Old Man, That Old Man: Wordsworth Revises Wordsworth | Julian Thompson | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| Audio | Loathly Ladies | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/loathly-ladies | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Fairies, Children and Changelings | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Marry Waterson, Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse-Brown | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/fairies-children-and-changelings | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Helpful Fairies | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/helpful-fairies | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/fairy-wives-and-fairy-lovers | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Introducing Fairies and Fairyland | Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/introducing-fairies-and-fairyland | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary: 'The Ring of Words' | Stuart Lee, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-oxford-english-dictionary-ring-words | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Tolkien and Languages: Ancient and Invented | Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart Lee | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-languages-ancient-and-invented | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Talking Tolkien: The influences of Medieval Literature on the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien | Stuart Lee, Elizabeth Solopova | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/talking-tolkien-influences-medieval-literature-fiction-j-r-r-tolkien | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | J.R.R. Tolkien: Medievalist and Mythmaker | Stuart Lee | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-medievalist-and-mythmaker | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | J.R.R. Tolkien 'Beyond the Shoreless Sea' | Stuart Lee | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-beyond-shoreless-sea | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Tolkien and Medieval Literature | Elizabeth Solopova | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-medieval-literature | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Tolkien's Languages | Elizabeth Solopova | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkiens-languages | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy | Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi, Andy Orchard | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lord-rings-tolkiens-legacy-0 | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | Approaching Fantasy Literature | Stuart Lee | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/approaching-fantasy-literature | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | H. P. Lovecraft | Stuart Lee | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/h-p-lovecraft | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Alan Garner | Felix Taylor | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/alan-garner | 21 May 2020 |
| Audio | Interview: Catherine Butler | Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/interview-catherine-butler | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century | Maria Sachiko Cecire | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/re-enchanted-rise-childrens-fantasy-literature-twentieth-century | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters | Carolyne Larrington | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-game-thrones-matters | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | Diana Wynne Jones | Gabriel Schenk | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/diana-wynne-jones | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | T. H. White | Gabriel Schenk | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/t-h-white | 21 May 2020 |
| Video | Ursula K. Le Guin | Caroline Batten | http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ursula-k-le-guin | 21 May 2020 |
| Essay | Outdoor Gothic | Julian Thompson | 14 May 2020 | |
| Essay | The Chimes: Dickens’s New Year Carol | Julian Thompson | 14 May 2020 | |
| Essay | This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet | Kate Kennedy | https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/ | 12 May 2020 |