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Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world (2016)
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This chapter interrogates The Playboy of the Western World in relation to Synge’s scientific analysis of fairy changeling folklore. This chapter proposes an alternative reading of the infamous disturbances that greeted the opening of the performance... Read More about Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world.
The value of linguistics to the teacher (2016)
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Introduction (2016)
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“The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses (2016)
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This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of th... Read More about “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses.
St Andrews and Aberdeen (2016)
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Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes (2016)
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Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
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When David Lester Richardson compiled the “British-Indian Poetry” section of his Selections from the British Poets (the first attempt to anthologize the poetry of British India) in 1840, he included no comic poetry. Despite the fact that humorous ver... Read More about Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century.
Maxims in Aldred's marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels (2016)
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‘May I subscribe a name?’: terms of collaboration in 1616 (2016)
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Language, gender and identities in political life: A Case study from Malaysia (2016)
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Gavin Douglas's Eneados (2016)
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Language-based approaches to names in literature (2016)
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The Texture of Authorial Intention (2016)
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The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles (2015)
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The poetry discussed in this paper presents a range of responses to sailing around the northern parts of the British Isles, by poets more or less familiar with these routes but also with Norway, Iceland and sea-ways much further afield. These poets u... Read More about The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles.
Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme (2015)
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This chapter explores the ways in which a lesbian community of practice perform a ‘butch’ identity. It uses discourse analysis to consider an interaction between them, showing a shared sense of self to be produced which rejects traditional symbols of... Read More about Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme.