School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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Clouding knowledge in the Anthropocene: Lisa Robertson’s The Weather and Caroline Bergvall’s Drift
(2018-06-06)© 2018 ASLE-UKI While the Anthropocene has emerged as a major critical paradigm across multiple disciplines in recent years, its conceptual, aesthetic and political dimensions demand further investigation. Responding to ... -
Sarah Grand and Oscar Wilde: Decadence, Desire, and the Double Life
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021-01-31)It is usual to put the New Woman writer Sarah Grand alongside Oscar Wilde to mark their differences. However, this essay suggests that these two authors had more in common than at first appears, both with regards to the ... -
Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy
This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text. In particular, this work is focused on atypical animacy and examines the scenario in ... -
Introduction
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Cinema and Cinematicity in Ralph Ellison's 'Three Days Before the Shooting . . . '
(2020-06-30)Ralph Ellison's unfinished, posthumously published second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . (2010) seethes with cinematic references and plot points. It also seethes with cinematic metaphors and similes, binding ... -
Life-lines: The writing of Bart Moore-Gilbert’s memoir The Setting Sun (2014)
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Coworking Spaces in Urban Settings
Coworking spaces (CWS) are a recent urban phenomenon; workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. This article reviews and discusses the literature ... -
The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
(Didier-Erudition, 2020-09-01)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 ... -
'What he hath gather'd together shall not be lost': Remembering James Petiver
(2020-06-20)© 2019 The Author(s). James Petiver FRS (ca 1663-1718) was a professional apothecary and prominent natural historian in London at the turn of the eighteenth century. This essay introduces a special issue of Notes and ... -
How Does Performance Disrupt Institutional Spaces?
(Methuen Drama, 2019-03-21)Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances ... -
Coworking Spaces in Urban Settings
Coworking spaces (CWS) are a recent urban phenomenon; workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. This article reviews and discusses the literature ... -
The Global Graphic Protest Narrative: India and Iran
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Rudimentary Things: Becoming an Object in the Performances of Skip Arnold
Skip Arnold’s performances consist of an attempt to become an object, typically by way of a singular action repeated or sustained over a difficult duration. As such, in actions since the early 1980s, he has created bluntly ... -
Impossible Things: The Life Art of Anne Bean in the 1970s
(Intellect (UK), 2018-09-15)Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. -
Space, Symbols and Speech in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Behzti and its Reception
In December 2004, the staging of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s play Behzti at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre triggered protests by some members of the Sikh community who considered it offensive. By unearthing and exploring ...
