Outputs (98)

Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I offer here this short commentary on a section from Technics and Time 2’s final chapter, ‘Temporal Object and Retentional Finitude’ in which Stiegler engages in a lengthy meditation on Husserl’s account of primary and secondary retention—a meditatio... Read More about Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience.

Naturalism and decadence: The case of Hubert Crackanthorpe (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the conjunctions between naturalist poetics and decadent sensibility in late nineteenth-century British fiction. It examines how the highly influential yet aesthetically problematic reach of naturalism became entangled in debate... Read More about Naturalism and decadence: The case of Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border (2013)
Journal Article

Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle... Read More about Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border.

Learning L2 words with L1 in mind (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects (2013)
Journal Article

This paper considers the relationship between the UK and its Caribbean Overseas Territories (OTs) since the Conservative-led coalition government won power in May 2010. There is discussion of the UK government’s recent White Paper on the OTs; the bal... Read More about The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects.

After the civil war: Making memory and re-making Spain since 1936 (2013)
Book

The Spanish Civil War was fought not only on the streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also through memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book reassesses the eras of war, dictatorship and transition to democracy in... Read More about After the civil war: Making memory and re-making Spain since 1936.

Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class (2013)
Thesis

This thesis offers a new approach to the work of the British filmmaker Shane Meadows. In contradiction to the conventional reading of his work as part of the long tradition of social realism in British cinema, this thesis offers a new approach which... Read More about Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class.

The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language (2013)
Thesis

Authenticity is a salient issue within endangered language contexts, particularly where revitalisation efforts are in place. There is currently much activity worldwide to document and describe endangered languages, but whose language should go into t... Read More about The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language.

Book review: James Chapman and Nicholas J Cull, Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (2013)
Journal Article

‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university (2013)
Journal Article

Following Brown and Gilman's (1960) study, sociolinguists have shown an increasing interest in the use of address forms in various social milieus such as religion, politics, media and academia. Using a two-pronged conceptual framework derived from in... Read More about ‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university.