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Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city (2017)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2018). Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Postcolonial and Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing on the outcomes of a research project, this chapter argues that digital storytelling can play a fundamental role in the reconceptualization of the digitally-mediated geographies of the postcolonial city. The chapter argues that the interactio... Read More about Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city.

Afterword (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). Afterword. In A. Petrina, & I. Johnson (Eds.), The impact of Latin culture on medieval and early modern Scottish writing. Medieval Institute Publications

Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740 (2017)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2017). Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740. In E. Depledge, & P. Kirwan (Eds.), Canonising Shakespeare: stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740. Cambridge University Press

Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland (2017)
Book Chapter
Rye, E. (2017). Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland. In G. Akselberg, & I. Saerheim (Eds.), Scandinavian names and naming in the medieval North-Atlantic area: proceedings of the 44th symposium of NORNA in Caen 23–25 April 2014. NORNA-förlaget

This article discusses a method that has previously been used to quantify proportions of Scandinavian vocabulary relative to Old English-derived vocabulary in corpora of minor names from areas of Viking-Age Scandinavian settlement in England. This m... Read More about Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland.

The noble identity of Gavin Douglas (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). The noble identity of Gavin Douglas. In J. Martin, & E. Wingfield (Eds.), Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587. Oxford University Press

This essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish advice to princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. It considers the manner in which Douglas’s tr... Read More about The noble identity of Gavin Douglas.

William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (2017). William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century. In Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (171-184). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.003.0012

This essay demonstrates the importance of the little-known poet William Lauder to the literary culture of mid-sixteenth-century Scotland and compares his work to that of his contemporaries, David Lyndsay and Richard Maitland. It argues that Lauder’s... Read More about William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century.

(Im)politeness and gender (2017)
Book Chapter
CHALUPNIK, M., Christie, C., & Mullany, L. (2017). (Im)politeness and gender. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (517-537). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7

This chapter maps out key developments in gender and (Im)politeness scholarship, focusing on theories and concepts which have advanced the field and contributed to its theoretical and methodological sophistication. The authors chronologically catalog... Read More about (Im)politeness and gender.

Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms (2016)
Book Chapter
Harrison, A. (2016). Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms. In D. Head (Ed.), Cambridge history of the English short story (84-99). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.006

© Cambridge University Press 2016. Oral and traditional story forms - from fable, myth, fairy tale and folk tale to religious parable - underwrote the nature and purpose of the short story from its earliest incarnations, offering powerful narrative m... Read More about Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms.

Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway (2016)
Book Chapter
Sotirova, V. (2016). Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway. In A. Auer, V. González-Díaz, J. Hodson, & V. Sotirova (Eds.), Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (171-194). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.25.10sot

This study examines Virginia Woolf ’s authorial revisions of the opening of Mrs Dalloway and their implications for narrative theory. I compare passages from the short story ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ and the early drafts of ‘The Hours’ with the p... Read More about Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway.

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2016). Introduction. In J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638720

John Millington Synge is one the most important and most influential playwrights in modern theatre. Born in 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, Synge had a professional career as a playwright that lasted just seven years before his untimely death at the age of... Read More about Introduction.

Where Hast Thou Been (2016)
Book Chapter
McGregor, J. (2016). Where Hast Thou Been. In S. Hall, & P. Hobbs (Eds.), Sex & DeathFaber

Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint (2016)
Book Chapter
SOTIROVA, V. (2016). Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint. In M. Burke, O. Fialho, & S. Zyngier (Eds.), Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments (227-252). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.24.12sot

This chapter reports a study on students’ responses to a passage by Virginia Woolf which displays frequent shifts in viewpoint and a variety of speech and thought presentation modes. The students were asked to attribute the viewpoint in the passage a... Read More about Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint.

Irish theatre in Britain (2016)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2016). Irish theatre in Britain. In C. Morash, & N. Grene (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre. Oxford University Press

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Robinson, J. (2016). Introduction. In Theatre & the rural. Palgrave

Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world (2016)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2016). Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world. In Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (201-258). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7

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.