In Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, one of the many methods used to create a Native American narrative, rather than a Westernised one, is the radical re-versioning of Western-Christian mythology. In the sections of the novel which detail the ...Read More
I headed up into the mountains today for a run, after frustratingly not being able to find anyone to go climbing with in the first spell of good weather we've had for nearly a fortnight. I knew where I was ...Read More
“What’s a play without a woman in it?”: The Role of Women in The Spanish Tragedy">
Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy[1. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, ed. David Bevington, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). All future act, scene and line references refer to this edition.] is not immediately striking as a play in which women play an ...Read More
Last weekend (8th-9th) the Leeds Uni Climbing Club headed over the Pennines to the Western Peak, for a weekend of easy trad and teaching people to lead. We forged on down the M60 in spite of the terrible weather forecast, ...Read More
I'm rubbish. I haven't posted anything on here for absolutely ages. Fact is, I've been pretty busy. It turns out that second year means a lot more work. Add that to the fact that I'm now helping to run the ...Read More
So, I'm two exams down, with one to go. Unfortunately, it's the hardest one! After that though, my first year of Uni is over, which is an odd feeling. It doesn't seem to have lasted very long! At the same ...Read More
I thought that whilst I sit here waiting until the offices in the university are open so that I can hand my essay in, I might as well write something. My first exam is on Wednesday, in Portuguese, and controversially I've been ...Read More
But life becomes eventful – then His busy hand forgets the pen. My life has, fortunately or unfortunately, been very eventful in the last couple of months, and so I've had very little time to blog away about this, that and the ...Read More
I just realised that I haven't posted in a long long time. Reminds me of a little poem I once saw, was something along the lines of: A man who keeps a journal pays Due toll to many tedious days But life becomes ...Read More
Wow. Really, the weather has been incredible. I mean it's been cold, sure, but so sunny, still and dry. That's really why I haven't been posting much recently: I've been out climbing whenever I wasn't working! Last weekend I went ...Read More
