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‘I want my closet back’: Queering and unqueering language in Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing!
This essay examines how anxieties about language, gender fluidity, and queer desire intersect in Giannina Braschi’s 1998 bilingual novel Yo-Yo Boing!. Identifying the novel’s ‘translingualism’ (the ways in which its English ... -
‘Immaterial Labour and the Work of Modernist Literature’,
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-05-16)This chapter draws on the concept of ‘immaterial labour’ to explore two key questions: ‘What is the work of literature?’ and ‘How might literary writing best be theorised as “work”?’ The activity of literary writing has ... -
The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-02-12)Humanitarian emergencies pose a significant global health challenge for children and young people's mental and psychological health. This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial ... -
The Impact Project: “Gender and Education in Rural Brazil”
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2019-10-07)This article discusses the parameter of social impact embedded in the UK’s research exercise with reference to the case study “Gender and Education in Rural Brazil”, and assesses the benefits of UK-produced landlessness-specific ... -
Impersonal Pronouns and First-Person Perspective
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‘The Impossibility of Knowing’: Developing Magical Realism’s Irony in Gould’s Book of Fish
(Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2014-10-01)Irony is an underlying factor of magical realist fiction. Richard Flanagan’s novel Gould’s Book of Fish (2001) is imbued with a particular kind of irony that results from a gap between a contemporary reader’s lament for a ... -
‘In human shape to become the very beast!’–Henry More on animals
(2017-09-03)© 2017 BSHP. Animals–both tame and wild, as metaphors and as real presences–populate many of More’s works. In this essay, I show that, from the early Psychodia Platonica to the Divine Dialogues, animals are at the core of ... -
Inclusive Plurals and the Theory of Number
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Indeterminate bodies
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Indeterminate Subjects, Irreducible Worlds: Two Economies of Indeterminacy
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Indeterminate Subjects, Irreducible Worlds: Two Economies of Indeterminacy
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Individual and stage-level predicates of personal taste: another argument for genericity as the source of faultless disagreement
This chapter compares simple predicates of personal taste (PPTs) such as 'tasty' and 'beautiful' with their complex counterparts (eg 'tastes good', 'looks beautiful'). I argue that the former differ from the latter along ... -
Individual phonological attrition in Albanian-English late bilinguals
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Individual profiles amidst a multiethnolect: Acoustic hetereogeneity in London English
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Indus Valley Script
(2019)