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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.

The value of linguistics to the teacher (2016)
Book Chapter
Giovanelli, M. (2016). The value of linguistics to the teacher. In M. Giovanelli (Ed.), Knowing about language: linguistics and the secondary English classroom. Routledge

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Clayton, D., & Giovanelli, M. (2016). Introduction. In M. Giovanelli, & D. Clayton (Eds.), Knowing about language: linguistics and the secondary English classroom. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719818

“The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses (2016)
Book Chapter
Davison, S. (2016). “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses. In R. Crowley, & D. van Hulle (Eds.), New quotatoes: Joycean exogenesis in the digital age (111-140). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004319622_009

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)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). St Andrews and Aberdeen. In D. Wallce (Ed.), Europe: a literary history 1348-1418. Oxford University Press