Pivotal poems : turning back to Lawrence's Bay
(2015)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2015). Pivotal poems : turning back to Lawrence's Bay. D.H. Lawrence Review, 40(2), 54-71
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Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995) (2015)
Journal Article
Cockin, K. (2016). Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995). Critique, 57(1), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019405This article examines Jeff Noon’s cyberpunk novel Pollen (1995), arguing for its innovative treatment of spatial and species identities. In addition to the challenging representations of gender and feminism identified by Val Gough, there are other ki... Read More about Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995).
Nuns and Writing in Late Medieval England: The Quest Continues (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2015). Nuns and Writing in Late Medieval England: The Quest Continues. In V. Blanton, V. O'Mara, & P. Stoop (Eds.), Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue (123-147). Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.105528
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.5.108474The 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: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090783.003.0007This 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: Manchester University Press
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. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777948In 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/efu018It 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.
Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014)
Book
Clare, J. (2014). Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626934Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and comp... Read More about Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre.
Mapping the British archipelago in the Renaissance (2014)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2014). Mapping the British archipelago in the Renaissance. In R. DeMaria Jr., H. Chang, & S. Zacher (Eds.), A Companion to British Literature, vol.2 (54-69). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118827338.ch31© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This chapter explores the “cartographic revolution” of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a period that combined advances in surveying techniques and print technology to produce increasingly accurate, scal... Read More about Mapping the British archipelago in the Renaissance.
Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Mara, V. (2013). Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context. In C. Gejrot, M. Åkestam, & R. Andersson (Eds.), The Birgittine Experience: Papers from the Birgitta Conference in Stockholm 2011 (54-71)
The Last Judgement in Medieval English Prose Sermons: An Overview (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). The Last Judgement in Medieval English Prose Sermons: An Overview. In T. Mertens, M. Sherwood-Smith, M. Mecklenburg, & H. Schiewer (Eds.), The last judgement in medieval preaching (19 - 43). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SERMO.EB.1.100504
The Late Medieval English Nun and her Scribal Activity: A Complicated Quest (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). The Late Medieval English Nun and her Scribal Activity: A Complicated Quest. In V. Blanton, V. O’Mara, & P. Stoop (Eds.), Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue (69 - 93). Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC.1.101520
A Victorian Response to a Fifteenth-Century Incunabulum: The 'Boy Bishop' Sermon and How it was First Edited (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). A Victorian Response to a Fifteenth-Century Incunabulum: The 'Boy Bishop' Sermon and How it was First Edited. In M. W. Drive, & V. O’Mara (Eds.), Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England (351–390). Turnhout: Brepols
'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war (2013)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2013). 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war. Gravesiana, 3(4), 703-729The article examines aspects of Robert Graves’s creative and personal relationship with the Anglo-Welsh modernist poets Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys. Roberts and Rhys met in late 1930s bohemian London literary circles, and were married, with Dyl... Read More about 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war.
D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song' (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2013). D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'. D. H. Lawrence studies, 20(2), 155-175This article initially considers possible approaches to the analysis of musical influences on Lawrence and his literary work. The unique method adopted in this particular study is then highlighted: it involves a "practical" or analytical approach to... Read More about D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'.
Outside the imaginary museum : mythology and representation in the poetry of Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys (2013)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2013). Outside the imaginary museum : mythology and representation in the poetry of Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys. PN review, 40(2), 23-28, 79
Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue (2013)
Book
Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2013). Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue. Brepols