All Outputs (303)

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.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014)
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Clare, J. (2014). Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626934

Shakespeare'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.

Thomas Hardy and Desire (2013)
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Thomas, J. (2013). Thomas Hardy and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305060

Thomas 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.

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

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

Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell (2013)
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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

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), 703-729

The 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), 155-175

This 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

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture (2013)
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(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/10.4324/9781003513247

Margaret 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.

Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition (2013)
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Perry, S. (2013). Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687336.001.0001

For 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.

Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale (2013)
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Kennedy, D. G., & Kennedy, C. (2013). Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale. Liverpool University Press

The introduction to the recent anthology Infinite Difference: Other poetries by UK women poets noted ‘the still dismissive and gendered critical language often used to describe women's poetry'. This is certainly true in the case of British women's ex... Read More about Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale.

‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus (2013)
Journal Article
Meek, R. (2013). ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare survey, 66, 287 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1017/SSO9781107300699.021

Various critics have considered Titus Andronicus in relation to questions of language, grief, and violence. In this paper I want to explore a more specific aspect of the play's interest in the passions: its preoccupation with the concept of sympathy.... Read More about ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus.

"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns (2013)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2013). Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns. In W. Maley, & R. Loughnane (Eds.), Celtic Shakespeare : The Bard and the Borderers (169-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096-11

Heroism is a key characteristic of Cymbeline’s Britons, and it played a crucial role also in the construction of Britain in the period of the play’s composition, although it is an ethos we tend today to associate more with Henry Frederick than with h... Read More about Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns.