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Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment (2019)
Book Chapter
Dörnyei, Z., & Muir, C. (2019). Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment. In X. Gao (Ed.), Second Handbook of English Language Teaching (719-736). Springer

This chapter addresses the complex question of what makes a motivating classroom environment. Understanding the full psychological tapestry of classroom life calls for an interdisciplinary approach and, accordingly, this chapter draws on research fro... Read More about Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment.

Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages (2019)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., Reynolds, A., & Yorke, B. (2019). Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages. In J. Carroll, A. Reynolds, & B. Yorke (Eds.), Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 1-33. British Academy

Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics (2019)
Book Chapter
Stockwell, P. (2019). Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics. In P. Simpson (Ed.), Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) (37-55). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto

This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The chapter addresses those criticisms, different... Read More about Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics.

A Deviant Word Hoard: A Preliminary Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia (2019)
Book Chapter
Ruiter, K. (2019). A Deviant Word Hoard: A Preliminary Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia. In Social Norms in Medieval ScandinaviaAmsterdam University Press

Norms, normativity, and the transgression thereof have long been topics of special interest in the social sciences; however, these studies routinely demonstrate an inherent fluidity between normativity and deviance, making the study of either in isol... Read More about A Deviant Word Hoard: A Preliminary Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia.

Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay (2019)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2019). Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay. In S. McCleave, & T. O'Hanlon (Eds.), The Reputations of Thomas Moore: Poetry, Music and PoliticsTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

Moore’s works – especially the Irish Melodies – were read, reviewed, and imitated across British India during the nineteenth century. This essay outlines Moore’s place within the cultural field of the colony, tracing the ways in which his Orientalisi... Read More about Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay.

Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) (2019)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2019). Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). In K. Cox, & K. Watson (Eds.), Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Re-marking. Manchester University Press

In detective fiction, the city has often been represented as an arena of signs and secrets, what Laura Marcus has called ‘urban hieroglyphics’. Through the analysis of two literary works, this essay discusses how tattoos and patterning within detect... Read More about Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).

Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End (2019)
Book Chapter
Sutherland, L. (2019). Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End. In M. B. Gale, & K. Dorney (Eds.), Stage women, 1900-50: female theatre workers and professional practice. Manchester University Press

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".