Outputs (68)
War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
Journal Article
Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.
A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article
Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.
Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise (2007)
Journal Article
This essay offers an introduction to Justus Lipsius's dialogue De Constantia, first published in 1584. Although the dialogue bears a superficial similarity to philosophical works of consolation, I suggest that it should be approached as a spiritual e... Read More about Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise.
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
Journal Article
This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.
Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophy (2007)
Journal Article
Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton (2007)
Book Chapter
Thatcherite polices impacted upon the theatre, not just in the gradual erosion of subsidization and implementation of the market-driven economy, but also in the subject matter and use of dramatic form. Whilst it was initially suggested that many of t... Read More about Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton.