School of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Recent submissions
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Art practice and art history in fin de siècle Alsace: the art journal Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsass-Lothringen
(University of Birmingham, 2018-12-01) -
Mental Affliction, Deviance and Culpability in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Beyond Binary Categories
(University of California, 2017-03-03) -
El miedo intersubjetivo en la autobiografía de Teresa de Ávila
(Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2018-12-30)This article offers an analysis of fear of the devil and fear of hell in sixteenth-century Spain, based on the autobiographical testimony of Teresa of Avila and on influential guides on meditation like those of Ludolph of ... -
Housing the Art of the Nation
(Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, 2018-04) -
Inclusive plurals and the theory of number
I argue that an account of both inclusive plurals (Dvorak and Sauerland 2006, Farkas and de Swart 2010, Grimm 2012, Ivlieva 2013, Krifka 1989, 1995, Mayr 2015, Lasersohn 1998, 2011, Sauerland 2003, Sauerland, Anderssen and ... -
"Vulnerability"
(University of Chicago Press, 2018)An examination of "vulnerability" as a key concept in the field of Animal Studies. The chapter locates the term in the context of recent ethical philosophies, including the work of Levinas, Butler, and Cavarero, and ... -
Generic and Universal Generalisations: Contextualising the 'Generic Overgeneralisation' Effect.
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From Starlet to Scarlet, and Blanche to Mrs Stone: the film performances of Vivien Leigh’, in Vivien Leigh: Star, Actress, Icon, edited by Katharine Dorney and Maggie Gale (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017)
(The V&A and Manchester University Press, 2017-11-01)Collected essays on the work and life of British actress Vivien Leigh. -
On experience-driven semantic judgments: a case study on the Oneiric Reference Constraint
(2015-11-04)Using the interpretation of pronouns in dream and belief reports as a test case, we show that semantic judgments can vary as a function of experience. We present findings from three studies where semantic judgments for ... -
Work, Modernism and Thinking Through the Aesthetic
(Bloomsbury, 2019)This chapter argues that, its fantastic premise notwithstanding, Kafka’s 1915 story Metamorphosis is much concerned with the banal realities of modern work, recounting both Gregor Samsa’s anxieties about his irksome job ... -
Woolf’s atom, Eliot’s catalyst, and Richardson’s waves of light: science and modernism in 1919
(UCL Press, 2018-10-08)This chapter stages an argument about the importance of the ways in which three modernist writers engaged with scientific ideas and deployed explicitly scientific metaphors in the year 1919. It offers new insights into the ... -
Soviet Journalists at Nuremberg: Establishing the Soviet War Narrative
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"Chto-nibud' ot bezdel'ya na dosuge": publitsistika i vopros o svobodnom vremeni v dvoryanskoy srede vtoroy poloviny XVIII – nachala XIX vv.
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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 ...
