Browsing School of English and Drama by Title
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The Natural History of The Silkewormes and their Flies
(Manchester University Press: Cahiers Élisabéthains, 2010-09-01)This study examines the overlap between natural philosophy and humanist imitation in two works by Thomas Moffet: his reference work Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalum Theatrum (written c.1589) and his poem The Silkewormes, ... -
Networking Archives: Quantitative History and the Contingent Archive
(2020-11-03)Recent years have seen a growth in the use of network analysis on large datasets of correspondence, but studies of the epistemological basis for findings have not seen a commensurate increase. The latter are important ... -
‘A new name and a new job, that’s what he’d like’ Identity, Labour and Precarity, 1915-2015
(Routledge, 2019)This chapter will address key research questions related to the mutual implication of labour and identity in contemporary Europe, including the construction of social identities in and through forms of labour; the impacts ... -
Notes on a means without end
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The Octonaire in Thomas Smith’s Self-Portrait
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Old, old, very old men: Nostalgia in the Early Modern Broadside Ballad
(ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), 2017-03-25)Old, old, very old men: Nostalgia in the Early Modern Broadside Ballad -
Olympian Performance: The Cultural Economics of the Opening Ceremony of London 2012
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On First Looking into Mary Shelley’s Homer
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‘On or About December 1930: Gender and the Writing of Lives in Virginia Woolf’
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-03-24)This article examines some important historical, literary, and theoretical questions that are posed by the idea of “writing a life” in the early years of the twentieth century. Its focus is primarily on the constitutive ... -
Open Source, Headspace, Ferret, 31, Winners and Losers, The Fire This Time, Desiring Machines, Strong Dress
(Wiley, 2018-05-25)Original poems -
Opera Audiences and Cultural Value: A Study of Audience Experience
(2014-05-01)This project aims to better describe the cultural value of opera through a study of its most devoted audience members. Through qualitative surveys and in-depth, open-ended interviews with highly-engaged opera-goers, we ... -
Oulibertinage: Play and Pudeur in Anne Garréta's Pas un jour
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018-03-01)Since the turn of the century, women-authored sexual confessions have proliferated. However, these succès de scandale have been paralleled by anxiety regarding self-exposure and a sense that, for women writers, the ‘taboo’ ... -
Overview of Business-Facing Arts Audience Research
(2013-11-01)This report is a review of public-domain research conducted specifically in order to inform arts organisations about their audiences. The research covered is driven by the demands of the arts industry to understand its ... -
A Paradoxical Privacy: Solitude and the Inner Voice in the Writings of Denise Riley
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Pedagogies of Defiance
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-11-15)Beginning from Paulo Freire's insistence that ‘Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom,' we can begin to unpack the political function of Higher Education in the UK. This essay uses ... -
Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
(2017-01-05)That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, ... -
Performed poetry and all-round experience
(2023-01-01)The National Curriculum makes spoken poetry part of what children should know, but dramatically limits what it can do. Thinking of sound as a purely internal dimension of the poem, it ignores the way oral performance brings ...