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Radical Tenderness: Poetry in Times of Catastrophe
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-05-01)Radical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. How do poets negotiate between the personal and the ... -
Ralph Ellison and the Divergent African American Claims on Henry James
(Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers, 2021)This essay collection views the work of Ralph Ellison through a transnational lens. -
Re-articulating the creative hub concept as a model for business support in the local creative economy: the case of Mare Street in Hackney
(2015-04-14)The literature on ‘creative hubs’ is scarce. Although the term is currently in wide use in policy circles, its actual meaning is not always clear. Accordingly, this paper aims to clarify what is meant by the ‘creative hub’ ... -
Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah.
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020)Fred Wah is a writer of the contemporary, not the archive. He writes poetry “as a way of reading and thinking” (Faking It 1). I read his poetry as a way of thinking and writing. My focus therefore is on “the archive effect” ... -
Reading Urdu, Writing Home: Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
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Recreation and William Alexander’s Doomes-day (1637)
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The Refusal to Work and the Representation of Political Subjectivity in the 1920s and 2020s
(MHRA, 2020-08-19)This article considers the power of the general strike as an enabling ‘myth’ within in a range of literary texts from the 1920s that address the specific historical meanings of the 1926 General Strike. It also considers ... -
Relative Values: apreendendo o valor da cultura
(Itau Cultural, 2022-09-12)O artigo apresenta a relative values, metodologia proposta pelo People’s Palace Projects, centro de pesquisa em artes com sede em Londres. Explicitam-se a relação entre os objetivos do trabalho e a importância do seu caráter ... -
Remediating Affect: "Luclyn" and Lesbian Intimacy on YouTube
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-06-27)This article focuses on Kaelyn and Lucy, a long distance (US–UK) lesbian couple who document their relationship on YouTube. Their channel has attracted a following of hundreds of thousands of individuals who profess to ... -
Remembering and Dismembering Henry Howard: Blazon and Beheading in Sir John Cheke’s Elegy on the Earl of Surrey
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Sir John Cheke’s poem ‘What natures worke is this’ constitutes the earliest extant elegy to the early Tudor poet and courtier Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. If the renaissance elegy ... -
Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit
(2018-06-01)© 2017, The Author(s) 2017. The proliferation of images of “oppressed” and “downtrodden” Muslim women circulating via media discourses and popular memoirs leading up to and after 9/11 has led a number of British Muslim ... -
Resistance to Digitisation: Curated Memory Cards Artefact
(2014)The act of networking in any context has some element of ceremonial performance attached to it. In an analogue world these performances have historically included the act of exchanging business cards. This ‘ceremony of ... -
Rev. of Staging Queer Feminisms: Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015 by Sarah French
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The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
(Didier-Erudition, 2020-07-01)This article reappraises the Romantic ode through the concept of ‘brinkmanship’ introduced by Edward Young in 1728 and revived and developed by Coleridge. Young portrays the Pindaric ode as a risk-taking genre which appears ...