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Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
Journal Article

The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.

Writing Black Scotland (2020)
Book

Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined... Read More about Writing Black Scotland.

The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
Book

his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.

The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part Nine, Chirbury Hundred and the Bishop’s Castle Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
Book

“Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2020)
Book Chapter

The chapter argues that Ben Lerner’s 10:04 is a response to the new ontological condition of metamodernism. Not only is 10:04 deliberately playful in its mash-up of fiction and autobiography; it also encapsulates extreme levels of anxiety concerning... Read More about “Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04.

The status of the narrator in Modernist fiction (2020)
Journal Article

The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective (2020)
Journal Article

The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard’s work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard’s late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward... Read More about The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective.

Historiography and life writing (2020)
Book Chapter

Investigating Group-DMCs and Complexity in the L2 Classroom (2020)
Book Chapter

Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic (2020)
Book Chapter

Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s (2020)
Journal Article

As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associated with the scholarship of William Jones. This essa... Read More about Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s.

The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems (2020)
Book

The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6): A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This... Read More about The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems.

The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading (2020)
Journal Article

The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author’s creative intentions is important to readers’ appreciation of literary works. However, the question of how this... Read More about The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading.

Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
Journal Article

This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth centur... Read More about Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded.

The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements (2020)
Journal Article

This study examines the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners’ attention and vocabulary gains. Participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, involving explicit instructio... Read More about The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements.

A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers (2020)
Journal Article

This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic repre... Read More about A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers.

Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus (2020)
Journal Article

Corpora have revolutionised the way we describe and analyse language in use. The sheer scale of collections of texts, along with the appropriate software for structuring and analysing this data, has led to a fuller understanding of the characteristic... Read More about Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus.

Vocabulary in Language Teaching (2020)
Book

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. Two leading specialists make research... Read More about Vocabulary in Language Teaching.

Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation (2020)
Book Chapter

Words go together like ‘bread and butter’: The rapid, automatic acquisition of lexical patterns (2020)
Journal Article

While it is possible to express the same meaning in different ways (‘bread and butter’ versus ‘butter and bread’), we tend to say things in the same way. As much as half of spoken discourse is made up of formulaic language, or linguistic patterns. De... Read More about Words go together like ‘bread and butter’: The rapid, automatic acquisition of lexical patterns.