(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
All Outputs (305)
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/10.4324/9781315777948In 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). 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.
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). 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). Brepols
Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Mara, V. Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context
'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
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture (2013)
Book
(2013). V. Sanders, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513247Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture.
Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell (2013)
Book
Driver, M. W., & O’Mara, V. (Eds.). (2013). Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell. Turnhout: Brepols
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.-J. Schiewer (Eds.), The last judgement in medieval preaching (19 - 43). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SERMO.EB.1.100504
Thomas Hardy and Desire (2013)
Book
Thomas, J. (2013). Thomas Hardy and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305060Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the worl... Read More about Thomas Hardy and Desire.
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
Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition (2013)
Book
Perry, S. (2013). Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687336.001.0001For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and... Read More about Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition.