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Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
NORLEDGE, J. (2022). Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom. English Studies, 103(3), 386-406

The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences of domestic pets. The presence of such creatures in dystopia is often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or the lac... Read More about Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom.

Building The Ark: Text World Theory and the evolution of dystopian epistolary (2020)
Journal Article
Norledge, J. (2020). Building The Ark: Text World Theory and the evolution of dystopian epistolary. Language and Literature, 29(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019898379

Told through a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages, newspaper clippings and blog posts), Annabel Smith’s interactive digital novel The Ark epitomises the contemporary hybridity of the dystopian genre. Designed to be full... Read More about Building The Ark: Text World Theory and the evolution of dystopian epistolary.

I English Language (2019)
Journal Article
Kostadinova, V., Yáñez-Bouza, N., Dreschler, G., Gregersen, S., Gyuris, B., Allan, K., …Norledge, J. (2019). I English Language. Year's Work in English Studies, 98(1), 1-166. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz004

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology (not covered this year); 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Diale... Read More about I English Language.

Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of "Dead Fish" (2019)
Book Chapter
Norledge, J. (2019). Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of "Dead Fish". In B. Neurohr, & L. Stewart-Shaw (Eds.), Experiencing Fictional Worlds (157-175). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.32.09nor

In this chapter I present a Text World Theory analysis of Adam Marek’s emotionally charged dystopian short story, “Dead Fish”, which takes for its focus a possible future world recovering from environmental disaster. Drawing upon naturalistic reader... Read More about Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of "Dead Fish".

I. English Language (2018)
Journal Article
Cloutier, R., Yáñez-Bouza, N., Święciński, R., Dreschler, G., Gregersen, S., Gyuris, B., …Norledge, J. (2018). I. English Language. Year's Work in English Studies, 97(1), 1-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/may010

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguis... Read More about I. English Language.