Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black
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Schwan, A. (2016)
Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black. Television and New Media, 17(6), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416647497
This article argues that Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black (2013-), based on Piper Kerman’s memoir (2010), uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote pri...
Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction
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Wasson, S. (2015)
Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction. Gothic Studies, 17, 104-123. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.8
In organ transfer, tissue moves through a web of language. Metaphors reclassify the tissue to enable its redeployment, framing the process for practitioners and public. The pr...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State
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Lyall, S. (2015)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State. The Bottle Imp,
Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses
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Frayn, A. (2014)
Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses. Modernist Cultures, 9(2), 260-281. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0086
Richard Aldington’s city poems in the latter part of his 1915 collection Images
are concerned with the masses who inhabit the modern city. Aldington is
at pains to stress his ...
'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History
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Lyall, S. (2014)
'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History. Literature and History, 23(2), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.4
Fionn Mac Colla’s ideas of history can be characterised as postcolonial in their critique of historical determinism, Cartesian dualism and Whig progressivism. He utilises his ...
‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance
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Lyall, S. (2014)
‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106
This essay argues that the twentieth-century movement of literary and cultural revival known as the Scottish Renaissance was, like the Irish Revival lead by W.B. Yeats, a coun...
Being Inside Her Silence: silence and performance in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar.
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Artt, S. (2013)
Being Inside Her Silence: silence and performance in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar. Scope an on-line journal of film studies,
'Romance-ing Treasure Island: Conrad and Ford's Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dryden, L. (2013)
'Romance-ing Treasure Island: Conrad and Ford's Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 10,
Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis
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Neill, C. (2013)
Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis. Theory and Psychology, 23(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312473520
This paper presents an entry-level approach to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Along the way it considers crucial issues for textual analysis, arguing that Lacan’s insights provi...
J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration
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Lyall, S. (2012)
J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration. Scottish Literary Review, 4, 131-150
The article presents the literary works of James Leslie Mitchell using the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It discusses Mitchell's adventurous spirit as reflected in the trave...