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    The Poetry of Married Life
    (Cambridge University Press, 2025-01-16) Phelan, J. P.
    This chapter examines the depiction of 'the quotidian reality of married life' in mid-Victorian poetry, identifying some of the challenges faced by poets in dealing with this topic and highlighting their preoccupation with issues remote from modern concerns such as the fate of married couples after death.
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    Some problems in using numbers to represent the writing styles of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
    (Shakespeare Association of Korea, 2024) Egan, Gabriel
    The quantitative study of writing styles—sometimes called stylometry or computational stylistics—has in the past two decades been enhanced by the widespread availability of large digital textual corpora and easy-to-use software tools that lower the technical obstacles for participation in this field. For the study of early modern drama, the availability of the raw text datasets called ProQuest One Literature (formerly Literature Online (LION)) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes it easy to compare Shakespeare’s writing with that of his contemporaries. The result has been a boom in quantitative studies of early modern drama. Certain aspects of language, such as authorial preferences for particular words and phrases, are especially easy to quantify. But there are problems attendant on the quantitative analysis of language that are easily overlooked because language is a more complex subject than it first appears. This essay surveys four kinds of problems that can distort our perspective when we start using numbers to represent writing styles.
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    Anglo-Saxonism
    (Cambridge University Press, 2025-01-16) Phelan, J. P.
    This chapter examines the rise of Anglo-Saxonism as a political and cultural movement in the nineteenth century, and examines the ways in which it influenced the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, paying particular attention to his use of formal and metrical devices associated with Anglo-Saxon poetry as these were understood at the time.
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    Gender, Islamophobia and Romaphobia: Intersectional Insights
    (Charles University Press, 2025-01-10) Easat-Daas, Amina
    Islamophobia and Romaphobia or anti-gypsyism remain among the most significant, yet seemingly normalised racisms on the continent, if not across the globe. Both of these forms of racism have historical rootings and distinct gendered dimensions. This chapter seeks to understand and define how gendered Islamophobia and gendered Romaphobia can be understood through theoretical lenses to understand the intersections of the two, and I look forward to potential future research avenues in this novel area of inquiry.
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    Obtenir les Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1968 : Conflit entre alliés de l'OTAN
    (ACAPS, 2025) Dichter, Heather L.
    Sept villes se sont portées candidates pour les Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1968, dont quatre appartenant à des États membres de l'OTAN : Lake Placid (États-Unis), Grenoble (France), Calgary (Canada) et Oslo (Norvège). Dans les années 1960, le sport international a dû faire face à la politique de la guerre froide qui a eu un impact sur la possibilité d'organiser des événements sportifs. Le Comité international olympique (CIO) a demandé à chaque ville candidate aux Jeux olympiques de 1968 de fournir une garantie gouvernementale que tous les participants seraient autorisés à entrer dans le pays s'il était choisi comme hôte. Les quatre États membres de l'OTAN ont compris qu'ils devaient travailler ensemble pour s'assurer que chacune de leurs réponses en faveur de leurs villes candidates respectives satisfasse le CIO tout en ne violant pas les accords de l'OTAN. Aucun de ces États ne voulait que les réponses de sa ville l'excluent inutilement de la sélection de l'hôte olympique. La demande du CIO d'une garantie gouvernementale au nom des villes hôtes des Jeux olympiques de 1968 a impliqué les gouvernements. Les actions des diplomates de l'OTAN et de leurs ministères des affaires étrangères ont finalement influencé la sélection de l'hôte olympique.
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    What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teaching and Study of Politics and IR in Higher Education
    (Political Studies, 2024-11-16) Blair, Alasdair; Craig, John; Gann, Rose; Honeyman, Victoria; Bellaby, Ross; Kolpinskaya, Ekaterina; Adams, Lucy; Parker, Jonathan
    The paper asks whether there is a typical Politics and IR curriculum before reviewing the content and design of the revised fifth edition of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Politics and IR Subject Benchmark Statement that was launched in March 2023. The paper examines the manner by which the most recent edition differs from earlier subject benchmark statements and reflects on the implications of the strategic direction taken by the QAA to include new content areas that primarily focus on the development of disciplinary statements on Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), Accessibility and sustainability and Enterprise and entrepreneurship education (EED). The paper explores the implications of benchmark statements, given that while they are not a regulatory requirement, they nevertheless seek to define what can be expected of a graduate and are drawn upon by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to inform the development and revision of Politics and IR undergraduate provision.
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    Farmers' Boys and Doomed Youths: Producing the Poet in the Print Culture of the Romantic Era.
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024-05-05) Fulford, Tim
    Two 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.
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    Robert Southey Essays Moral and Political 1832
    (Routledge, 2024-05-02) Fulford, Tim
    Robert 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.
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    Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White
    (Liverpool University Press, 2024-09-13) Fulford, Tim
    This 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.
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    The cycleborg: everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024-06-16) Garton, Rosie
    This article weaves together autoethnographic accounts, feminist readings of technology, agency, and performance, and historical points of reference to address the current gender gap in urban cycling in the UK. Through the lens of everyday performance, I examine how females on bicycles are marked as both highly visible spectacles and invisible ‘others’. In developing the feminist promise of the mechanically monstrous cyborg, I offer a new revolutionary figure of hope – the cycleborg – who puts her otherness to use. In doing so, she calls attention to the need re-think hegemonic attitudes towards mobility, agency, and environmentally conscious action. My argument for the performative and revolutionary potential of the cycleborg reconciles everyday gendered performance with environmental consciousness, and is analysed through two contemporary performances: Katie Mitchell’s Atmen (2013) and Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid (2020). By examining the use of hybrid actors in these performances as tools for promoting social responsibility and radical statements about climate change, I propose, with a romantic, feminist, and fierce hope, that the cycleborg both offers a contemporary vehicle for environmental change and opens possibilities to claim a new kind of space in the world.
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    Agentive Green Mobility: Everyday Performance Training for Women on Wheels
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024-10-01) Garton, Rosie
    Through the lens of everyday performance, I examine how females on bicycles are marked as both highly visible spectacles and invisible ‘others’. In developing the feminist promise of the mechanically monstrous cyborg, I offer a new revolutionary figure of hope – the cycleborg – who puts her otherness to use. In painting the image of the cycleborg, I suggest that she offers a position for the cycling female to make subversive use of her patriarchally-assigned image of the monstrous other. As she rallies against her training of feminine comportment, the cycleborg simultaneously welcomes her instinctive gendered training to navigate hostile, patriarchal climates. She joins her feminist killjoy allies in training to be a seen and heard nuisance. As our fast and fuel-less cycleborg pedals between exhaust fumes and traffic-jammed revving motors, she performs her honed physical, spatial and sensorial skills in an agile and agentive mode of environmentally-friendly mobility. An awareness of performance training offers this daily practice of green living a toolkit from which to understand the complex positioning of her embodied and gendered urban mobility and to carry out her spatial act of resilience. I argue that as an unfamiliar and more-than-human hybrid, she has the potential to make use of her performative hypervisibility to emphasise both a re-thinking of hegemonic attitudes whilst also presenting the potential for human agency and responsibility in the future of the environment.
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    From revolution to revenue stream: How corporate targets co-opt social movement attacks
    (Academy of Management, 2024-07-09) Marquez-Gallardo, S. L.; Krabbe, A. D.
    Research on social movements has shown that activist attacks on corporate targets can help to create new market opportunities. Because these opportunities tend to be oppositional to incumbent industries, theory posits that incumbents are unlikely to exploit these opportunities. However, we suggest that corporate targets might be able to leverage activist attacks to their own advantage. Drawing on a longitudinal study of commercial academic publishers’ responses to the Open Access Movement, we propose a theoretical model of how incumbent organizations can benefit from the market opportunities resulting from social movement attacks by manipulating powerful third-party stakeholders’ perception of alignment or misalignment with the corporate targets and social movement respectively. To do so, corporate targets first co-opt social movements’ frames by exploiting the distance between activists’ and powerful stakeholders’ concerns. Second, corporate targets redefine social movements’ claims to create new market opportunities that is aligned the powerful stakeholders’ concerns. Our paper moves beyond the current focus on how social movements create new, oppositional markets to how corporate targets co-opt social movement attacks to enhance their market position.
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    Found in Translation: unlearning ‘expertise’ in inclusive dance practice
    (2023-08-31) Doughty, Sally; Smith, Sue
    Names of presenters: Sally Doughty and Sue Smith Nature of proposal: Presentation/provocation Title: Found in Translation: unlearning ‘expertise’ in inclusive dance practice Abstract: This presentation/provocation responds to the conference theme of ‘addressing hierarchies’, and suggests how ‘unlearning’ can challenge histories of inclusive dance practices. We reflect on our research undertaken as part of Critical Mass, an inclusive mass choreography performed at the Commonwealth Games 2022 Opening Ceremony. Interrogating how disabled and non-disabled young people learn the codified dance styles of Breaking and Kuchipudi, we propose that embedding inclusivity more rigorously in dance practices, from studio to management, promotes unlearning as a guiding disposition. Our provocation is that unlearning expertise in/of the dancing body radically shifts expectations of ‘difference’ in dance practices. Interrogating inclusive participation and translation within Breaking and Kuchipudi, we propose that good practice includes challenging individuals to explore and move beyond existing movement boundaries without prioritising certain bodies or expressive capacities over others. This, in turn, challenges current operational and conceptual hierarchies in dance pedagogy and production. Translation, interpretation and authenticity promote individual expressions of identity, participant-led agendas and the generation of new communities (Bartlett 2017; Whatley 2007; Elin and Boswell 2004), that support reinterpretation and invention rather than fulfilling the physical geometry of codified dance vocabularies. Through unlearning loyalty to a movement idea (‘that’s not a headspin, this is!’) we propose new insights for studio practice and pedagogy in which people with different bodies and neurologies can idiosyncratically express movement whilst being united by qualities, efforts, direction and intention. Approaching movement translation from this perspective requires a degree of unlearning (McLeod et al 2020; Visser 2017; Risner 2009) and the acknowledgement that earlier learnings may be incorrect and reductive. We therefore set a provocation for unlearning that challenges traditional ways of using translation in inclusive dance practices, and reimagines traditional hierarchies or ‘cascades’ of knowledge as more rhizomic structures with multi-directional forces of expertise that inform processes, experiences and outcomes.
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    This is...
    (2023-06-09) Doughty, Sally; Shenton, Pete
    This proposal is for a performance titled This is… by Sally Doughty and Pete Shenton. It responds explicitly to the conference’s questions of ‘What modes of attention foster the dance between memory and motion, archive and artform’?, and ‘What matters and for which bodies in the fabulations and materials of archives’? Memories, real and false, form the backbone of This is… through the interrelationship of memory, archives, movement and speech. Setting our bodies in motion, a series of repetitive, slowly morphing gestures emerge that suggest memories and images, which we name and propose verbally to the audience. The movement repetition becomes almost mesmeric, allowing us to dig deep into our personal archives to capture and share memories from our individual lived experiences; from earlier iterations of this performance and from fabulous fabulations that are positioned concurrently with – at times – these seemingly unrelated gestures. Memory further serves as the performance’s methodology, which demands that we attend to and capture our improvised movement and speech, and commit (as much) of it to memory (as we can) in order to revisit and resolve it later in the performance. Attending to memory, motion and speech in this way develops multiple layers of meaning for performers and audience to suggest that ‘…within this passage of relation lies the logic, narrative, pattern or subject that we, as human beings, are bound to look for’ (Burrows 2010: 111). We propose that we make sense of Burrows’ ‘relation’ by finding points of connection that map directly onto our own lived experience. This is… reflects different modes of attention and opens up spaces in which we can imagine a reality that may not exist, as exemplified in McGilchrist’s example of a bird attending to a seed whilst simultaneously being alert to possible wider dangers (2022). This is… operates at the intersections between individual and collective memory to produce gentle, witty, moving, thought provoking and unexpected commentaries on one’s past and present self.
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    Multimodal Writing Special Issue, Writing in Practice
    (National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), 2022-02-02) Barnard, Josie
    This ‘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.
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    European Englishes
    (Wiley, 2025) Ozon, Gabriel
    The 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.
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    Dance teaching in HE: further thoughts on the possibilities of artistic citizenship for decolonial practice
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024-06-16) Adewole Elliott, Funmi
    Building on my argument in a recently published book chapter, ‘Toward Decoloniality and Artistic Citizenship’ (2023), this article discusses how the concept of artistic citizenship could create a conceptual space for decolonial thinking for dance teaching within the Higher Education (HE) curriculum. This interrogation is informed by my role as a lecturer who teaches dance practice based on African dance styles and principles in UK HE. I argue that making artistic citizenship an explicit part of the critical framework for dance pedagogy creates a common vantage point for students of all cultural backgrounds and better conditions for their development as culturally literate artists who will work in globalised contexts. The concept of citizenship in relation to artistic practice can be used to generate a theoretical context for existing hybrid dance training in HE, which in Britain has evolved to reflect the multicultural nature of society. This theoretical context will support the research and practice of Black students and those of global majority heritage who require conceptual maps delineating how dance practices that draw on their cultural heritage have existed as part of professional practices, as well as enhancing the cultural literacy and political awareness of the whole student body.
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    Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024-11-19) Curtis, Harriet
    ‘Mess’, in contemporary parlance, has proved useful in describing a range of affective, aesthetic, and political experiences and states of being. This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance, and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer, feminist, and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist tendencies towards productivity, usefulness, and efficiency. Whilst the materiality of mess provides a starting point and emerges in many of the works analysed, the implications of mess as related to vulnerability, shame, and resistance occupy a larger space in the book’s chapters. These performances are messy not only in content or style; they reveal critical readings of how perceived-as ‘messy’ subjects and practices are shaped and regulated. In attending to the public, personal, and structural uses of mess, and emphasising the critical possibilities of what might otherwise be skipped over or cleared away, this book develops and opens out shared understandings of mess as creative chaos and as a practice of political action or change.
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    Night Swimming at Faros
    (2024-08-20) Taylor, Maria
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    Full-parallax digital holography, anatomy, and art
    (SPIE, 2023-03-08) Dalenius, Tove Noorjahaan
    Working in the full-parallax digital format with the CHIMERA holography technology, which offers a 250 micrometre hogel size ensuring a clear image, this project explores anatomical imaging from an artist’s perspective. A completed hologram visualises anatomical MRI scans, adapted from a 3D printable model of the Bulbo-clitoral organ, building on studies in urology. A collage approach has been taken to include structural detail and creative vision. The work takes advantage of the available colour representation offered through continuous wave RGB laser technology. Transparent modelling options are explored. A Practice-Based Research method has been adopted to investigate creative possibilities in display holography.