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Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue (2015)
Book
Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2015). Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue. Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.108474

The present volume is the second in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue. Like that volume, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns' lite... Read More about Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue.

'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy (2015)
Book Chapter
Meek, R. (2015). 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (130-152). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090783.003.0007

This chapter examines the various instances of sympathetic engagement and emotional correspondence in Shakespeare’s Richard II. It explores the various figured audiences and emotionally engaged onlookers that the play depicts, and the ways in which t... Read More about 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy.

The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
Book
(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

(S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III (2015)
Book Chapter
Kaegi, A. (2015). (S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of Emotion: understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (200-220). Manchester University Press

On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump (2015)
Journal Article
Wedgwood Clarke, J. (2015). On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 8(2-3), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.8.2-3.109_1

‘On ungrounded ground’ reflects upon a writer’s yearlong ‘residency’ at a landfill site and resource recovery facility. The article explores the significance of contemporary waste management within an archaeological, ecological and geological context... Read More about On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump.

Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation (2014)
Journal Article
Bailey, L., Bell, J., & Kennedy, D. (2015). Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation. The new review of hypermedia and multimedia, 21(1-2), 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2014.983554

© 2014 The Author(s). The last 10 years have seen a rise in Internet sites commemorating those lost to suicide. These sites describe the life of the deceased and the afterlife of relatives, parents, friends or siblings who have been termed the "forgo... Read More about Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation.

Spenser’s Dutch uncles: The family of love and the four translations of a theatre for worldlings (2014)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2014). Spenser’s Dutch uncles: The family of love and the four translations of a theatre for worldlings. In J. Maria Perez Fernandez, & E. Wilson-Lee (Eds.), Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (164-184). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139942393.009

© José María Pérez Fernández and Edward Wilson-Lee 2014. A Theatre for Worldlings is a milestone work in more ways than one. Commonly regarded as the first English emblem book, it is “always to be remembered as containing the first printed verse of E... Read More about Spenser’s Dutch uncles: The family of love and the four translations of a theatre for worldlings.

Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government (2014)
Book
Farrelly, M. (2014). Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777948

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination wi... Read More about Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government.

'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi (2014)
Journal Article
Kennedy, D. (2014). 'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi. English, 63(243), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efu018

It has been customary to see elegies by male poets as exceptional rather than typical poems. W. H. Auden wrote that ‘Poets seem to be more generally successful at writing elegies than at any other literary genre’. Peter Sacks reads Milton’s ‘Lycidas’... Read More about 'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi.