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T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism (2020)
Journal Article
Matthews, S. (2020). T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism. Japan D.H. Lawrence Studies, 30, 23-57

Eliot and Lawrence have long been considered the opposed critical, social and intellectual poles of Modernism. F. R. Leavis's indignant catalogue of Eliot's attacks on Lawrence established the orthodox position: Eliot was 'the essential opposition in... Read More about T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism.

Squid Squad: A Novel (2020)
Book
Welton, M. (2020). Squid Squad: A Novel. Manchester: Carcanet

In Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling their walnuts from the window. They contemplate the spaces between the spaces between t... Read More about Squid Squad: A Novel.

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”:

They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.

Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study (2020)
Journal Article
Pellicer-Sánchez, A., Tragant, E., Conklin, K., Rodgers, M., Serrano, R., & Llanes, Á. (2020). Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(3), 577-598. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263120000091

Theories of multimedia learning suggest that learners can form better referential connections when verbal and visual materials are presented simultaneously. Furthermore, the addition of auditory input in reading-while-listening conditions benefits pe... Read More about Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study.

Keeping time (2020)
Book
Legendre, T. (2020). Keeping time. Acre Books

Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers (2020)
Journal Article
Pears, B., Brown, A., Carroll, J., Toms, P., Wood, J., & Jones, R. (2020). Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers. European Journal of Archaeology, 23(3), 381-405. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.72

Environmental information from place-names has largely been overlooked by geoarchaeologists and fluvial geomorphologists in analyses of the depositional histories of rivers and floodplains. Here, new flood chronologies for the rivers Teme, Severn, an... Read More about Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers.

Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works (2020)
Journal Article
Guy, J. M. (2020). Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 63(3), 346-375

Richard Ellmann termed Vera a "wretched play." In Oscar Wilde Revalued (1983), Ian Small could name only two critics gave it serious attention: Katherine Worth and Frances Miriam Reed. In Oscar Wilde Recent Research (2000), Small again found only two... Read More about Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works.

Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms (2020)
Book
Mercer, S., & Dornyei, Z. (2020). Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge,... Read More about Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms.

Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities (2020)
Book
Kilby, S. (2020). Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities. University of Hertfordshire Press

This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectu... Read More about Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities.