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Great Writers Inspire

Oxford University

PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org 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 https://writersinspire.org/ to see how great writers can inspire you.

  • 16 minutes 24 seconds
    Oscar Wilde's Women
    Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. She then moves on to consider the revolutionary aspects of his four plays Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest.
    19 September 2012, 4:54 pm
  • 9 minutes 23 seconds
    Great Writers Inspire Great Writing
    Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers. Taking as a starting point the literary afterlife of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and the influence of Romantic John Keats on the First World War Poet Wilfred Owen, Alex discusses how writers are challenged by precursory writers, and introduces some theories of influence from T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom.
    19 September 2012, 4:51 pm
  • 20 minutes 23 seconds
    Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling
    Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'. In this discussion of Rudyard Kipling, Julian acknowledges Kipling's lack popularity with readers, but argues for the greatness of short stories from across his ouvre and positions them as precursors to modernism.
    19 September 2012, 4:49 pm
  • 18 minutes 14 seconds
    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.
    1 August 2012, 1:08 pm
  • 8 minutes 14 seconds
    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'.
    1 August 2012, 12:42 pm
  • 13 minutes 2 seconds
    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?'.
    19 July 2012, 2:13 pm
  • 6 minutes 9 seconds
    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?'.
    19 July 2012, 11:35 am
  • 19 minutes 27 seconds
    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.
    19 July 2012, 11:13 am
  • 30 minutes 12 seconds
    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. He relates this to work done in recent and historical adaptations of Dickens's work.
    14 June 2012, 12:38 pm
  • 9 minutes 31 seconds
    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.
    8 June 2012, 2:07 pm
  • 27 minutes 7 seconds
    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.
    8 June 2012, 2:00 pm
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