Vladimir Brljak
I am a final-year doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. My research explores the role of allegory in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature and intellectual culture, especially its complex and contested relation to the notion of the period's (early) modernity. This project, provisionally entitled "Allegory and Modernity in English Literature, c. 1575-1675", is jointly supervised by Professor Catherine Bates
and Dr Paul Botley, and is funded by a Chancellor's International Scholarship from the University of Warwick.
and Dr Paul Botley, and is funded by a Chancellor's International Scholarship from the University of Warwick.I have published and presented on my primary research topics, and I also take an interest in medieval literature and its postmedieval reception. I have been awarded the 2014 Review of English Studies Essay Prize for my article "The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism". In November 2013, I organized Allegory Studies?, an international conference on the interdisciplinary study of allegory that took place at the University of Warwick, gathering delegates from a number of universities in the UK, as well as Israel, Switzerland, and the US.
for my article "The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism". In November 2013, I organized Allegory Studies?, an international conference on the interdisciplinary study of allegory that took place at the University of Warwick, gathering delegates from a number of universities in the UK, as well as Israel, Switzerland, and the US.Below is a list of selected publications and presentations, and I also keep a profile on Academia.edu.
.ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism", The Review of English Studies, published online on 21
March 2015, print publication to follow in June 2015; the article is freely available at the RES website
"Early Comments on Milton's Anti-Trinitarianism", Milton Quarterly 49 (2015): 44-50
"Allegorical Readings of Paradise Lost", in Milton through the Centuries, ed. Gábor Ittzés and Miklós Péti
(Budapest: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 2012), 102-112
"Hamlet and Lameth", Notes and Queries 59 (2011): 247-254
"Unediting Deor", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 112 (2011): 297-321
"Borges and the North", Studies in Medievalism 20 (2011): 99-128
"An Allusion to Purgatory in Hamlet", Notes and Queries 57 (2010): 379-380
"The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist", Tolkien Studies 7 (2010): 1-34
"The Lutheran 'Faustus' in Foxe's Acts and Monuments", ANQ 23 (2010): 207-210
"Unediting Deor", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 112 (2011): 297-321
"Borges and the North", Studies in Medievalism 20 (2011): 99-128
"An Allusion to Purgatory in Hamlet", Notes and Queries 57 (2010): 379-380
"The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist", Tolkien Studies 7 (2010): 1-34
"The Lutheran 'Faustus' in Foxe's Acts and Monuments", ANQ 23 (2010): 207-210
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"'[S]ome shadowe of satisfaction': Bacon's Poetics Reconsidered", 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for
Renaissance Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 26-28 March 2015
"'[T]he causes and obiects of delectation': An Unpublished Essay on Poetic Theory by Kenelm Digby", 6th Biennial
Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Southampton, 13-15 July 2014
"Of Ale and Allegory: Inventing the Middle Ages", Research Day in Medieval English Studies, Pázmány Péter
Catholic University, Piliscsaba, 4 April 2014
"Satan's Allegories and Milton's Epics", 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York,
27-29 March 2014
"The Age of Allegory: A Medievalist Myth and Its Legacy", The Middle Ages in the Modern World, University of St
Andrews, 25-28 June 2013
"Allegory and Modernity in English Poetics, c. 1570-1630: Locations and Dislocations", 2013 Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, 4-7 April 2013
"Allegory and the Construction of Modernity in the Study of Renaissance Poetics", Postgraduate Symposium 2012,
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, 27 June 2012
"The Mouth of Hell: Hamlet, 1.5.2-91", Arts Faculty Seminar, University of Warwick, 23 May 2012
