School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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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, 2020-07-01)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 ... -
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
(Modern Language Association, 2020)This article situates the graphic narrative form within the current politics of protest movements. It argues that the graphic narrative captures the forms of civil disobedience that shape late-twentieth-century and ... -
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 ... -
Poetry in Expanded Translation: Audre Lorde, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harryette Mullen, Don Mee Choi
(2021-03-27)In this article, I discuss the politics and poetics of translation in the work of Audre Lorde, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harryette Mullen, and Don Mee Choi, considering each poet's ideas about translation and translation ... -
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 ... -
Literary Sampling and the Poetics of the Specimen
(Graduate School Boston University, 2020-05-01)This article examines two types of literary specimen: a sample of typeset pages distributed with a prospectus to advertise a projected work, especially in subscription publishing; and a representative example of an author, ... -
Writing Desire and History: Collecting as Postcolonial Feminist Methodology in South African Art
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-04-17)© 2020, © 2020 Unisa Press. This article explores the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Stephané E. Conradie through a postcolonial feminist lens by reading it in counterpoint to the literary fiction of Bessie Head. The ... -
Botanical Networking: Four Holograph Letters from Charlotte Smith to James Edward Smith
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020-03-23)<jats:p> Four holograph letters from the poet and novelist Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) to the botanist James Edward Smith (no relation) have recently come to light. They are published here in full for the first time, with ...