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Dark Visions: Looking at and in Theatrical Darkness
This article focuses on darkness in performance, not only as a condition for playing, immersion or imagination (as in the recent trend for “theatre in the dark”), but also as the “stuff” of vision – both its object and its ... -
'The Darling of the Temple-Coffee-House Club’: Science, Sociability and Satire in Early Eighteenth-Century London
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)This article explores the relationship between metropolitan sociability and the production of natural knowledge in early eighteenth-century London. It considers three discursive sites where the intellectual and sociable ... -
Dead Star Mileage: Jack Smith’s Fandom for Maria Montez
(Goldsmiths Press, 2019-12-03)Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. -
Death and Mourning in Contemporary Iraqi Texts
While Judith Butler and others have in the last twenty years questioned whether brown, and especially Muslim, brown bodies, can possibly be accorded human status when they are so easily allowed to die, and so rarely mourned, ... -
Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation
A self-described “momenteer,” James Lee Byars (1932–1997) is arguably best remembered for the extravagant, imposing, and durable sculptural works he made in the 1980s and 1990s, typically using marble, bronze, glass, or ... -
Disturbing Identity: Migrants and Refugees as Abject Agents in Fatih Akin’s Edge of Heaven
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Doing the Amateur Casual: Victorian Investigative Journalism and the Legacy of James Greenwood’s 'A Night in a Workhouse'
This essay examines the impact of James Greenwood’s “A Night in a Workhouse by an Amateur Casual” (1866) on the emergence of investigative journalism. Whereas the American press is often credited with the invention of ... -
Doing voices: reading language as craft in black British poetry
(Sage Journals, 2014-04-14)This essay offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the ... -
Domestic Bloomsbury
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-05)Bloomsbury's deconstruction of standard domestic routine, as explored by Morag Shiach, was meant to support a way of life in which creativity was paramount. The home was reimagined as a place to fidn a room of one's own ... -
Double or Dual-Natured?: Consciousness and Race in Nella Larsen's Passing
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Dressing the Law
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-11-23)Abstract The theatre shares many features with the law. One key commonality is the presence of dressers in both professions. In the law and the theatre, the dresser is a key intermediary in the transformation of bodies and ... -
Du Bartas’ Visit to England and Scotland in 1587
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10-19)