Oxford Research in English

ORE is a peer reviewed, MLA-indexed journal run by graduate students in English at @UniofOxford

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Our sixteenth issue, at long last, is OUT. Featuring wonderful articles by @BanDrooks, @frankiegardner_, and Corinne Clark, 'Conversations' promises to please a wide variety of readers with good, revealing criticism.

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Introducing Rowan, the second half of our Co-Editor team! Rowan is a DPhil looking at failures of feeling in late medieval devotional culture. Aside from depressed priests, their research interests include queerness and transness in contemporary reimaginings of the medieval. 1/5

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Get to know our team! Introducing @zrucker5, our Co-Editor-in-Chief! Zoe is a DPhil Candidate at Balliol, writing a thesis on Anglo-American modernism and how canonical expatriate poets might nuance our understanding of transitional identity authorial self-fashioning. (1/4)

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Graduate students, it's the final day to send us your pieces on CONSUMPTION! Don't miss a great opportunity to get your work published!

Details here: https://t.co/1ZFGkpeYxl

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11 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! Postgrads of English and related disciplines at all universities - please send us your work on CONSUMPTION! We can't wait to read what you've produced.

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One month left to send us your work! We're looking for essays on all things consumption, plus reviews on a selection of monographs. If you're a grad student in English or related disciplines at any university, get involved!

Details: https://t.co/1ZFGkpeYxl

#callforpapers

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Reminder! For our upcoming issue on CONSUMPTION, we're also looking for features pieces on Mikhail Bakhtin's conceptualisation of the 'grotesque body'!
Check the CfP on our profile for more.

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Ironically, 99 cent became famous as the most expensive photograph in the world when it was auctioned in 2007 for a price of $3.34 million. (3/3)

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Sara, our prod editor, explores ORE's upcoming theme of CONSUMPTION in relation to Andreas Gursky's "99 cent" (1999). (1/3)

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Gursky’s famous photograph, 99 cent, depicts the interior of a 99 cent store in Los Angeles. With its hyper symmetrical composition, high colour contrasts, and almost endless amount of detail, 99 cent indexes the visual excess and information overload of mass consumerism. (2/3)

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Andreas Gursky, 99 cent (1999)
In its hyper symmetrical composition, high colour contrasts and endless detail, 99 cent indexes the visual excess and information overload of mass consumerism. Ironically, it sold for $3.34 mil in 2007, becoming the most expensive photograph. (2/4)

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Have you spotted our posters round the English faculty?

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Have you seen our new call for papers? We're looking for pieces from graduate students of English and related disciplines at all universities on the theme of consumption! Check out our last post for details.