Prof Ursula Hurley's Outputs (14)

“Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural and historical conditions in Hungary have made aspects of Beauvoir’s thought less legible in the socialist and post-socialist context. Setting out these conditions, the chapter goes on to in... Read More about “Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-process. It unfolds a narrative of 'accidental experiment', as attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Cary (1584 – 1639) foundered. That is to say, the project did not set... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In Experiments in Life-Writing (249-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-progress. When attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Renaissance playwright Elizabeth Cary (1584–1639) foundered, I developed an experimental form in order to accommodate... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

"Description" (2017)
Book Chapter

Writers have been creating virtual realities since before computers were even dreamed of. Good fiction conjures an alternative world, gives you a window into someone else’s life, takes you somewhere other. Above all, it’s convincing. Effective descri... Read More about "Description".

Standing on deep shale : the problem of originality (2012)
Book Chapter

Writers are often plagued by the apparent impossibility of saying something new, finding a unique voice; how to add something worthwhile to the almost infinite body of pre-existing literature? We stand at the edge of a vast uncharted sea – the unform... Read More about Standing on deep shale : the problem of originality.

All the love in the world (2011)
Book Chapter

This poem was commended in the Leaf Books poetry competition 2011, and published in the winners' anthology, entitled Balancing Act and Other Poems.

Two poems : 'In her sunporch' and 'Her garden, my lure' (2010)
Book Chapter

Selected for publication in the Shearsman poetry anthology themed around painters and St Ives.

Heartwood (2010)
Book Chapter

The creative text that I wrote as part of my PhD thesis won first prize for the best first chapter in the international writing prize, non-fiction category, run by Unbound Press in 2010.

Belong (2010)
Book Chapter

1000 word 'flash' memoir, commended in the Leaf Books Memoir Competition.

Hurling up (that wall) (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

A floating flower (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

Realisation (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

When the mind is quiet (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

Description (2006)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2006). Description. In R. Graham (Ed.), How to Write Fiction (And Think About It). Palgrave Macmillan