The Essays of

Malcolm Potter-Brown

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ART

An influential work of Art: Marcel Duchamp's Fountain

LANGUAGE

You and I, or You and me? and other difficulties with the case of personal pronouns in English

How to pronounce Bundestag


LITERATURE

The popularity of Enid Blyton and the Famous Five

Goethe in a web of words: a brief essay on intertextuality and Goethe's Wirkungsgeschichte

Thwarting the Powers of Darkness: a thematic study of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, Robin Gordon's New Zephyria and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter.

POLITICS

The "special relationship" between the UK and the USA and the prospective disintegration of the United Kingdom

Brexit: the people have spoken - or have they?

The UK and the EU: further reflections on the Brexit vote

What kind of Brexit: hard, soft or none at all?

Brexit crumbles

To  the  people of Sunderland

A brief history of Brexit

Paula Vennells, the Golden Circle and the legacy of Thatcherism


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