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Citations after the death of the author (2024)
Book Chapter
Julius, C. (in press). Citations after the death of the author. In Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This essay uses the publication of Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to consider the changed status of citations in art made during and after the 1960s. Setting the scene for the ensuing essays, Julius argues t... Read More about Citations after the death of the author.

“And a More Offensive Spectacle I Cannot Recall”: Humour in … No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky (1999) by Suzanne Treister (2023)
Book Chapter
Julius, C. (2023). “And a More Offensive Spectacle I Cannot Recall”: Humour in … No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky (1999) by Suzanne Treister. In Comedy in Crisis: Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art (35-55). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18961-6_3

This chapter circles around a joke made in … No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky—a CD ROM artwork by Suzanne Treister in 1999—in which the titular character attempts to time travel to the Holocaust in order to save her grandparen... Read More about “And a More Offensive Spectacle I Cannot Recall”: Humour in … No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky (1999) by Suzanne Treister.

Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation: A British Perspective (2019)
Book
Birks, J. (2019). Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation: A British Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30573-4

This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement. Understanding facts not to operate in a political vacuum, the book argues for a wide remit for fact-... Read More about Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation: A British Perspective.

Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine (2019)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2019). Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 236-259. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0252

This article examines the intersection of technology and femininity in Marcel L’Herbier’s 1924 silent film L’Inhumaine, focusing on the film’s articulation of a figure of machine-woman who may be read as alternately inhuman and posthuman. The article... Read More about Technology and femininity in Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine.

Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition (2018)
Book
Sen, U. (2018). Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348553

This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan t... Read More about Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition.

Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels (2018)
Journal Article
Mevel, P., & Cornelio, D. (2018). Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 29(1), 139–160. https://doi.org/10.7202/1050711ar

Here we will focus on French writer Brice Matthieussent’s 2009 Vengeance du Traducteur and Québécois Jacques Poulin’s 2006 La traduction est une histoire d’amour which present apparently contradictory viewpoints on the role of the translator and tran... Read More about Collision and collusion: contrasting representations of the translator-author relationship in two contemporary Francophone novels.

Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921 (2018)
Journal Article
Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (2018). Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921. Labor History, 59(6), 692-719. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2018.1470064

This article examines labour organisation in Gibraltar and its hinterland from c.1902-1921. It demonstrates that the traditionally strong links which had existed between organisations in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain - links based upon a shared be... Read More about Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921.

The history of language learning and teaching in Britain (2018)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2018). The history of language learning and teaching in Britain. Language Learning Journal, 46(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2017.1382052

This article provides an overview, based on the most recent research available, of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Britain. After an overview of the state of research, we consider which languages have been learnt, why, and ho... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching in Britain.

An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob (2017)
Journal Article
Scott, H. (in press). An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob. Dix-Neuf, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2017.1386886

Fin-de-siècle writers from diverse disciplines were drawn to the seductive potential of masks and disguise; mask-wearing characters of indefinite identity, indeterminate gender, and insecure psychology proliferate in their texts. However, when charac... Read More about An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob.

Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands (2017)
Journal Article
Sen, U. (2017). Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59(4), 944-973. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417517000330

Copyright © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History. This article explores the legal structures and discursive framings informing the governance of one particular backward region of India, the Andaman Islands. I trace the shifti... Read More about Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands.

‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts (2017)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2019). ‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(3), 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417722107

© The Author(s) 2017. Widely known to promote broader involvement in the processes which define the arts and culture, community engagement work in the performing arts – despite employing a set of commonly recognised norms – has tended to be conceptua... Read More about ‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts.

Natural History: Heritage, Place and Politics (2017)
Book
WILSON, R. (2017). Natural History: Heritage, Place and Politics. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597515

The concept of ’natural heritage’ has become increasingly significant with the threat of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and climatic change. As humanity’s impact on the condition of life on earth has become more prominent, a discernib... Read More about Natural History: Heritage, Place and Politics.