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Item Metadata only A Tour of the Palace of Calculation: Some Laboratory Notes on ‘45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser’(Shuddhashar FreeVoice, 2024-05-01) Perril, S. D.This essay contextualizes my poetry sequence ‘45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser’, that appears in full in my book Two Duets with Occasion (Shearsman 2024). It discusses my use of Walser’s novel Jakob Von Gunten (sometimes published, and filmed as, Institute Benjamenta), and Melville’s short story ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’. It also engages with ideas from Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, and Jung’s writings on Alchemy and Psychology.Item Open Access “Attempting to deal with the past”: historical inquiries, legacy prosecutions, and Operation Banner(Taylor and Francis, 2021-01-25) Sanders, AndrewOver the summer of 2019 a number of maroon banners appeared across towns and cities in Northern Ireland, declaring that the local population ‘stands with Soldier F’. Soldier F was a member of the Parachute Regiment who, in March of 2019, was charged with the murders of James Wray and William McKinney and five additional attempted murders as a result of his actions on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972. These charges were announced at a time when it was reported that up to 200 former members of the British Army could face official investigation for their conduct in Northern Ireland. These cases sit at the centre of the sensitive and divisive issue of the legacy dimension of the Northern Ireland conflict, posing a challenge to the continuing success of the Northern Ireland peace process. Engaging a developing literature on post conflict reconciliation processes, this article will analyse the issue of legacy prosecutions from Operation Banner.Item Metadata only Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recretion, and Media in Germany's Metropolis(University of Arkansas Press, 2024-10) Dichter, Heather L.; Johnson, Molly WilkinsonBerlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis is an edited collection about sport in Berlin from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. This volume places sport in Berlin within the wider contexts of sport history, urban history, and German history. From football (soccer) through tennis, equestrianism, and skateboarding, as well as Olympic trials and the European Maccabi Games, this book demonstrates the importance of sport to culture, society, memory, and politics in Berlin.Item Metadata only Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White(Liverpool University Press, 2024-09-13) Fulford, TimThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century—a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the Romantic artist as a young rebel against convention who is too sensitive to survive in the harsh commercial world. As a prodigy who made his incipient death the subject of his tragic poetry, he was influential on both sides of the Atlantic—on Keats, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Emerson and Bryant. The edition restores his powerful, macabre and prophetic verse to attention, and also demonstrates his variety and range. It includes a comprehensive introduction discussing the creation of his public image, the marketing of his poetry, and the impacts he made on nineteenth-century poetry, on labouring-class writing and on publishing history.Item Open Access Decapitation and paramilitary feuds in Northern Ireland, 1969-1992(Taylor and Francis, 2022-06-10) Sanders, AndrewThis article seeks to draw together two major themes in studies of political violence, namely, decapitation and factionalism, using examples from the Irish republican paramilitary groups that emerged during the period of conflict in Northern Ireland commonly known as the Troubles. I seek to complement the extensive literature across these areas by offering analysis of the behaviour of Irish republican paramilitary groups during internecine feuds that took place between the 1969 split in the Irish Republican Army and the 1992 Provisional Irish Republican Army action against the Irish People’s Liberation Organisation. By comparing three inter-group feuds, this study will demonstrate the prevalence of decapitation attacks in the aftermath of factional splits and the serious consequences that they have for groups which suffer a decapitation attack.Item Open Access Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration(Wiley, 2024-10-21) Wang, Jiayi; Halenko, NicolaThis longitudinal study examines the effects of a pre-study abroad (SA) pedagogic intervention and subsequent SA experience on second language (L2) Mandarin fluency. It explores two temporal aspects of oral fluency—planning time and speech rate—along with one performance measure, duration of response. Additionally, L2 contact data were included as a supplementary variable in the analysis. The experimental group was assessed at three points: before instruction (T1), after 2 weeks of instruction (T2), and post-SA (T3). A non-instructed control group that participated in the SA period provided baseline data. Both groups demonstrated improved fluency after the SA period, with the experimental group showing superior performance in planning time, speech rate, and duration of response. The greatest reduction in between-group differences occurred at T2 and persisted over time. These findings highlight that combining targeted instruction with exposure is highly effective, with L2 contact strongly correlating with overall fluency gains.Item Embargo European Englishes(Wiley, 2025) Ozon, GabrielThe English language has followed both familiar and unfamiliar paths in the European context. After a brief overview of the growing presence of the language on the continent, such paths are compared against world Englishes models which have been used for mapping the global spread of English. Categorization challenges, and their implications for the EU, are identified and discussed. Despite Brexit and its attendant uncertainty, the future looks promising. Research prospects (including methodological ones), agendas and avenues are put forward in the final sections to contribute to mapping the new, unfamiliar paths English is following in Europe.Item Open Access Farmers' Boys and Doomed Youths: Producing the Poet in the Print Culture of the Romantic Era.(Taylor and Francis, 2024-05-05) Fulford, TimTwo of the ten bestselling poets of the nineteenth century were almost completely excluded from the twentieth-century canon. Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) and Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) were huge successes in the expanding print culture of the Romantic era. Their publications were influential on many of the poets who were admitted to the canon. Nevertheless, they have become so obscure that their influence—powerful on Clare, Keats, and Shelley for example— has been almost entirely forgotten. So has their role in shaping the cultural figure of the Romantic poet and their impact upon the publishing of poetry in a period when bookselling was transforming into a sales-driven mass market. Both were from the laboring class; each was publicized commercially because it was, supposedly, amazing that they had become poets at all, considering their social origins. They happened to be excellent poets but, in an early manifestation of PR, they were as much branded as phenomena as they were advertised for excellence. In this article I shall explore how this packaging worked and what it shows about the selling of books, the construction of a cultural image of the poet, and the influence of their poetry on aspiring poets.Item Open Access Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt(Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-10) Erol, Mehmet Erman; Şahin, Çağatay EdgücanThis article analyses the trajectories of organised labour in times of neoliberalism in Turkey and Egypt and their current condition under securitised neoliberal-developmentalist regimes post-2013. Neoliberal experience in these countries was marked by continuing authoritarianism, challenging the view that economic liberalisation would lead to political democratisation. One of the most important areas of neoliberal restructuring has been labour markets. In order to achieve this, struggles over organised labour were of vital importance. Dismantling the power of dissident labour unions through coercive measures and containing other sections of organised labour through authoritarian corporatist relations has been crucial in these cases.Item Embargo Mark Making on Ceramic Transport Jars: Clues to Persianate Actors and Networks in the Indian Ocean World (eighth through tenth centuries AD)(Bloomsbury, 2025-02-06) Lambourn, E.‘Iranians abroad’ left an indelible mark on many of the cultures of the Indian Ocean rim, besides playing an important role in the development of the medieval economy. Yet the mobile worlds of Persianate mercantile and seafaring communities have left very different material and textual traces from those we are accustomed to look for among land-based polities. This chapter presents a heterogeneous body of material from across the Indian Ocean world that sits at the intersection of text and material culture, a corpus of markings found on commercial ceramic containers as well as smaller ceramic items such as jars and basins. Considered alongside the vessel types that carry them, their find spots, whether made during or after manufacture, and alive always to their placement and directionality, this chapter demonstrates that this eclectic collection of markings offers an unexpected new resource for the study of Persianate presences and trade networks in the Indian Ocean world.Item Metadata only Multimodal Writing Special Issue, Writing in Practice(National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), 2022-02-02) Barnard, JosieThis ‘Multimodal Writing Special Issue’ of the international peer reviewed Creative Writing journal 'Writing in Practice' is based on Dr. Josie Barnard’s multimodal writing research. 'Writing in Practice' does not ordinarily run volumes on specific topics, but due to the important impact of the “digital turn” on writers and writing, the editorial board made an exception, inviting Dr Barnard to co-edit the journal’s first ever Special Issue. Multimodality and the “digital turn” are having a huge impact on the Creative Writing Higher Education sector and Barnard’s work has meant that writers’ concerns and interests have been tended to. This is a national and international matter of some importance to the sector; the impact affects not only all Creative Writing programmes, but the nature of communications in general, given the way in which literary, digital and media culture has become inseparably linked to educational institutions and Higher Education writing programmes. The Special Issue’s topic and Barnard’s work has facilitated awareness and generated creativity, aiding writers and teachers, to more fully comprehend and embrace multimodal approaches.Item Embargo Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: neoliberalism and the AKP in Turkey(Pluto Press, 2021-09-20) Erol, Mehmet ErmanThe neoliberal transformation of Turkey began with the military coup in 1980 and has continued uninterrupted since then. It was uninterrupted in the sense that it reflected the broader policy preferences of state managers; however, it also faced frequent and significant impediments and instabilities. Following a major economic crisis in 2001, political Islamist AKP has been the agent of neoliberalism in Turkey. Enjoying ‘strong’ majority governments since 2002, the AKP played a significant role in restructuring of the state and economy; and achieved the implementation of unaccomplished parts of neoliberal reforms such as massive privatisations, flexibilising the labour market, restructuring...Item Metadata only Praise for Woman Whose Eye Sheilds the Land(Dust Poetry Magazine, 2024-08-03) Dixon, JoanneItem Metadata only Pylon(The High Window Poetry Journal, 2024-05-14) Dixon, JoanneItem Embargo Revisiting the role of the United States of America in Northern Ireland(Routledge, 2024-07-23) Sanders, AndrewThe 1995 visit of the President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, to Northern Ireland has become a symbol of the promise of a peaceful Northern Ireland as viewed through the lens of the mid 1990s. Speaking on this trip, Clinton pledged the help of the United States of America to “secure the tangible benefits of peace,” and his administration was instrumental in securing the 1998 peace agreement known variously as the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement. The Clinton visit has become culturally iconic in modern Northern Ireland, even though Northern Ireland has failed to achieve a stable devolved government. New challenges resulting from the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union has brought a host of concerns over the constitutional arrangements for Northern Ireland. This chapter seeks to explore the current status of the United States-Northern Ireland relationship, using archival research and examining popular cultural references will argue that the changing nature of the U.S. interventions in Northern Ireland, and particularly the absence of a contemporary figure in the mold of Bill Clinton, has hindered the development of the Northern Ireland peace process.Item Metadata only Robert Southey Essays Moral and Political 1832(Routledge, 2024-05-02) Fulford, TimRobert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most influential journal pieces, providing important evidence for students of the political and literary culture of the Romantic period. Edited by Tim Fulford, this volume features a full introduction and detailed editorial notes setting the Essays in their contexts. The volume sets the Essays in the context of the political and social issues and controversies on which they comment, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary and Political History.Item Metadata only Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets(Routledge, 2023-09-22) Fulford, TimThe Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, unites several poets under the ‘uneducated’ banner, being the first to identify them as a group and claiming their their writing was worth consideration as that of a class. The book's foundational role contributes to the current interest in labouring-class/self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and culture. Accompanied by a new introduction written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford, this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary History.Item Metadata only The Catholic Reformation and the Dying: Confraternities and Preparation for Death in France 1550-1700(Brill, 2024-06-05) Tingle, ElizabethGuilds and confraternities were widespread in the later Middle Ages, but the Reformation attack on saintly and collective intercession led to a decline in membership. From the later part of the sixteenth century, however, with the reaffirmation of intercession by the Council of Trent and papal sponsoring of high-profile Roman confraternities as agents of Counter Reform, the confraternity once again became a prominent institution of local religious life. This chapter examines the role of the confraternity in aiding early modern Catholics to prepare for death, spiritually, through devotional activities and materially, by providing for mortuary rites and post-mortem intercession. Their role was to provide opportunities to acquire merit through lifetime actions and assurance that after death, individuals would be catered for by the ongoing activities of their chosen community. In addition, associations created specifically to assist the dying were introduced in the post-Tridentine period. Confraternities were also major consumers of another post-Reformation revival, the indulgence. To illustrate how these activities worked in practice, focus will be on a case study of the confraternities of Brittany in western France, although comparisons will be drawn with other regions as well.Item Metadata only The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey: Labour under Neoliberal Authoritarianism(Pluto Press, 2021-09-20) Şahin, Çağatay Edgücan; Erol, Mehmet Erman; Çağatay Edgücan Şahin; Mehmet Erman ErolItem Metadata only The Jewish ‘Monopoly’ of the Slave Trade in the Early Middle Ages: The Origins of an Enduring Historical Motif(Taylor and Francis, 2024-03-28) Phelan, J. P.This article examines the evidence to support the claim that the assertion that Jews played a leading role in the slave trade in the period following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire originated with the work of a number of late nineteenth-century historians, particularly Heinrich Graetz and Wilhelm Roscher. The author finds prior examples of this historical motif in the work of several earlier historians, and traces its origins back to the Henry Hart Milman's History of the Jews published in 1829. His article demonstrates that Milman's work was widely known and used throughout the nineteenth century, and examines the reasons behind the emphasis in his work on the mutual antagonism between Christians and Jews. The article then goes on to examine the adoption of this motif by late nineteenth-century Jewish writers, including the historian and folklorist Joseph Jacobs, and its appearance in standard reference works like The Jewish Encyclopaedia. It concludes with some reflections on the reasons for this surprising development, as well as some suggestions about the reasons for the renewed interest in this topic among historians in recent years.