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The Battle of the Books III: There and Back Again
As promised, here’s the conclusion to a competition that has cost me some sleepless nights: the best texts of the second semester of my final undergraduate year. I narrowed the competition down...
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Easter Exploits: Night of the Lepus
I always post the workload I’m dealing with on here in the holiday weeks. I like to think it balances out the fact that most of my regular posts seem to obfuscate rather than explicate the day-to-day...
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The Waste Land: Inception
‘APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.’ So begins ‘The Burial of the Dead’, the first part of The Waste...
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The Gothic Short Story: Tales of Terror
One of my favourite forms of literature is the short story. Finely-sculpted and direct, it provides a little tableau that Edgar Allan Poe called ‘unblemished, because undisturbed’. It’s a format that...
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Penultimate Post: The Graduate
On Friday 18th July, I graduated from the University of Leicester. I graduated somewhere between 11am and 1pm, in DeMontfort Hall one hundred and one years after its grand opening (and one hundred...
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My Final Blog
After two and a half years of my blogging, it’s time to hand over the baton. If there’s anything I’ve learnt from Rocky, it’s that after six films it’s time to turn in the towel. Also, I’m no longer an...
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National Student Survey
Tomorrow is the last week of term before the Easter break, and I’m finding it hard to get my head around the fact that after the holidays I will only have two classes before all of the teaching for my...
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A Day in the Life…
Hey! I am going to be brutally honest- I can’t speak for every final year English student, but from the many other students I’ve seen in the library, I can tell you that there isn’t all that much going...
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What Next?
With my last ever university exam looming on Wednesday, I thought it might be time to discuss what on earth I’ll be doing when everything is over! I’m getting very nostalgic at the moment; I have to be...
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So it’s that time of the year again where I have to start preparing for uni, and in a few days’ time I’ll be in Leicester. I’ve already bought all my stationary, taken all my kitchen utensils out of...
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