READ Research English At Durham

Books and literature articles, news and events, from the UK's top Department of English Studies at Durham University

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Blog
    • Articles and Comment
      • Articles
      • Book Reviews
      • Guest Posts
      • Listicles
      • Longreads
      • Research Conversations
      • The Best Book You’ve Never Read
      • Write to READ
    • Events
      • Calls for Papers
      • Event Reviews
    • New Publications
    • Podcasts
  • Longreads
  • Events
    • Subscribe to our North East Literature Events Listing
    • Promote Your Event
    • North East Literature Events Newsletter
  • Podcasts
    • Poetry Aloud
      • Andrew McMillan, Coalfield Dementia
      • Helen Mort, The Circle
      • Celebrating the Brontës
      • Sinéad Morrissey, Collier
      • The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
      • Paul Farley: An Audience with Durham Book Festival’s Poet Laureate 2014
      • Michael O’Neill Reads from Gangs of Shadow
      • An Evening with TS Eliot, by Dr Gareth Reeves and Dr Jason Harding
      • Gareth Reeves Reads From His Poetry Collection, To Hell with Paradise
      • John Clegg and Gareth Reeves Discuss the Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
      • John Clegg Reads From His Poetry Collection, Antler
      • Tom Pickard Reads from his Poetry
      • Lorna Goodison: Meet the Durham Book Festival Laureate 2012
    • Literature Lectures
      • Easter Lectures 2015
        • The Werewolf’s Rational Soul in the Medieval Romance
        • Fellowship from Sir Gawain to Malory and the Rise of ‘Civic’ Culture
        • Chivalric Identity in Medieval Romance: Colour and Clothing in Perceval
        • And All that Jazz: Popular Music as Narrative in The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night
      • Easter Lectures 2014
        • Hesiod’s Works and Days. Myth, Realism and Every Man
        • Dramatising the speaking voice: John Donne and George Herbert
        • The Saracen ‘Other’ in Middle English Romance
        • Text Within Text
        • Women, Science, and the Body in Mid-Victorian Literary Culture
        • Masculinity, Mimicry and the Crisis of Agency in the Colonial Contact-zone: A Study of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
      • Festive Traditions in the North East
        • Worms, Stags, and Other Folk Performances
        • Making music in the North-east: waits and minstrels around the region
        • Corpus Christi Plays in Durham
        • A Funny Kind of Devotion? Laughter in the Biblical Drama of Late Medieval Towns and Cities
        • Catholic Recusants in Performance
      • Ghosts: The Evidence of Spirits
        • Ghosts and Goblins in Japanese Art
        • Ghosts and Dickens
        • ‘Ghostly Language’: Wordsworth’s Ghosts and Spectral Subjectivity
      • Late Summer Lectures 2017
      • Late Summer Lectures 2016
      • Late Summer Lectures 2015
        • ‘Your New Hospital for the Intellectuals’: The Literary Salon as an Alternative Space for War
        • Old English Riddles and the Dream of the Rood
        • Victorian Vikings and the World of Saga Tourism
        • Narrating Everyday British Life by Authors of Muslim Heritage, Then and Now
      • Late Summer Lectures 2014
        • Authorship and Hysterical Woman in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
        • Boy with Apple: The “Comfortable Uncanny” in the Films of Wes Anderson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
      • Late Summer Lectures 2013
        • Dickensian Steampunk: Charles Dickens and His Overlooked Mudfog Papers
        • Monkey Besynesse: Patronage and Print, or the Ape and the Book
        • Jane Eyre and Masculinity
        • Ghosting, Place, and Wuthering Heights
        • Hideous Repasts: from Varney the Vampyre to Hannibal the Cannibal
        • Airmen, Aeroplanes, and Aesthetics: Pilots in Irish War Poetry
        • ‘Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: Lunatic Landscapes in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
        • Howling From the City Walls: Poetry and Counter-Culture in 1960s Newcastle
      • Late Summer Lecture Series 2012
        • Beauty, the Most Moral of All Values
        • Mirrors of Madness: Emotional Blindness, Narcissistic Doubling and Paranoia in Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
        • The Changing Face of Collection in Folk Music: A Short Lecture in Ethnomusicology
      • Literary Criticism and the Fantastic
        • Vampires and Bodysnatchers
        • Vampires and Poltergeists
        • Fantasies of Childhood in Peter Pan
        • Transgressing the Uncanny Valley: Cybersex and Android Incest
      • Outrageously Modern! Avant-Garde Magazines that Shocked Britain 1884-1922
        • The Great War in the Magazines
        • The White Review: A Journal for Our Times
      • The Persistence of Beauty: Tennyson to MacNeice
      • The Recovery of Beauty
    • The Uses of Literature
      • An Intellectual Reflects on Brexit
      • How Literature Challenges Our Infatuation with Numbers
      • How Literature Changes the Way We Think About Ageing
      • Contaminations: Literature and Climate Change
      • Why we don’t write poetry about Climate Change
    • Literature, History, Culture
      • Celebrating the Brontës
      • (Re)searching Lafcadio Hearn
      • Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love, Hope, and Imagination
      • A Conversation with Jane Smiley
      • The Decline of British Fiction
      • Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
      • John Clegg and Gareth Reeves Discuss the Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
      • When is Modernism?
  • About
    • Contributors
    • Related Blogs and Websites
    • New Publications

Tag Archives: phrases

Putting Words in My Mouth: Review of The Cultural Legacy of the King James Bible at Durham Book Festival

October 16, 2015by Research English At Durham 1 Comment

If you have ever been condemned as a scapegoat, or lauded as a “lily among thorns,” you have been influenced by the King James Bible. In a Durham Book Festival event organised in […]

Rate this:

Read Article →
Event Reviews

Post navigation

WordpressTwitterYouTubeGoodreadsMixcloud

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 5,669 other followers

Follow READ Research English At Durham on WordPress.com
Advertisements

Love books? Get the North East Literature Listing

 

 

Listen to our latest podcast

Twitter

My Tweets

Search

Follow us

Disclaimer and Licence

READ publicises the research conducted by the Department of English Studies at Durham University. It features a blog on literature and books, book reviews, bookchat, podcasts and lectures on literature. READ also publicises literature and cultural events in the North East.

Not everything that appears on this blog, including individual ideas or opinions, is necessarily endorsed by the Department of English Studies or by Durham University.

Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, unless otherwise stated.

Durham University

Top Posts & Pages

  • Home
  • Top Ten Werewolf Books of All Time
  • 'George Orwell's Worst Nightmare': Cybersecurity and Surveillance in Screen Narratives after Edward Snowden (Seminar, 2nd November)
  • What's On: North East Literature and Book Events in April 2018
  • The Poems of Climate Change

Durham University Links

  • Centre for Medical Humanities
  • Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
  • Centre for Poetry and Poetics
  • Department of English Studies
  • Hearing the Voice
  • History Blog Directory
  • Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Late Summer Lectures
  • Life of Breath
  • Medieval and Early Modern Student Association
  • Postgraduate English Journal
  • Records of Early English Drama North-East

Some of Our Readers

web
statistics
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies from WordPress.com and selected partners.
To find out more, as well as how to remove or block these, see here: Our Cookie Policy