All Outputs (120)

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
Journal Article

In recent years Dickens's use of Gothic has been the focus of some diverse and absorbing critical interpretations. This paper seeks to address in more detail the ways in which Gothic features in Dickens's various responses to the law in his work. Sce... Read More about Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction.

Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language (2008)
Journal Article

This is the first volume which exclusively focuses on vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners of French. All other volumes on the L2 acquisition of French have so far ignored this dimension. The issue is timely, because of the growing importance of voc... Read More about Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language.

Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper we study different aspects of lexical richness in narratives of British learners of French. In particular we focus on different ways of measuring lexical sophistication. We compare the power of three different operationalisations of the... Read More about Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words.

Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study follows the development of Adam's aesthetic attitude to different methods of printed reproduction of his fine photgraphs, from letterpress (beginning in the 1920s), through occasional experiments with photogravure, to duotone offset photol... Read More about Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink.

A quest for printed colour - From Hayter to hardcopy (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artist and researcher Paul Thirkell traces his quest to bring colour to print through 3 decades of artistic currents and trends. The presentation aims to reveal insights into how print based artists think about and engage with colour.

Facilitating the fine art digital print (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th – 19th C coincided with art’s Romantic period and its depiction of the ‘great person’ theory. Here, the Romanticists’ solitary creator and autographic distinction were the highest forms of originality in art... Read More about Facilitating the fine art digital print.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This lecture considered the many ways in which the techical means of expression, of painting in colour, and photography in black and white, enabled these two artists to transform landscape elements into psychic symbols, or allusions to a spirtual rea... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop compared different pre-printed samples on a range of fine art materials, which range from Japanese papers to fine art canvas. These samples demonstrate a very broad range of surface qualities and differences in the gamut of the printed... Read More about Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples.

100 years in America Tsamantas (Greece) – Worcester, MA (USA), 1908-2008: Historical determinants and images of the identity and culture of diasporas from Southeastern Europe (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This edited publication is the outcome of the 100 Years in America’ conference, which took place in the Hellenic College in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the 11th of October 2008, and was attended by over 60 participants. The aim of the conference was... Read More about 100 years in America Tsamantas (Greece) – Worcester, MA (USA), 1908-2008: Historical determinants and images of the identity and culture of diasporas from Southeastern Europe.

Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (2008)
Book

This book describes the experience of illness from a phenomenological perspective. I found phenomenology – the description of lived experience – to be the most salient approach to the set of issues surrounding illness. Phenomenology privileges the fi... Read More about Illness: The Cry of the Flesh.

The story of colonial adventure (2008)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines the nature and scope of the colonial short story, with reference to authors such as Kipling, Conrad, Conan Doyle and Somerset Maugham. The Companion itself is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field.

When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime (2008)
Journal Article

This paper explores CGI as a mode of commodity consumption and asks to what extent the consumption of spectacle mimics the notion of the ‘sublime’ and to what extent this ‘sublime’ status can be applied to the commodity form more generally. In parti... Read More about When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime.

Professionalism, peace reporting and journalists' safety in Sri Lanka (2008)
Report

Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page (2008)
Journal Article

Despite the separate hand-made status generally attributed to the artist’s book, its study yields insights into the more commercially generated photographic book. This essay uses the examples of books by three 20th century photographers – Dorothea La... Read More about Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page.

Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias (2008)
Journal Article

This study sought to investigate the influence of religious involvement (religious partisanship, religiosity, and religious service attendance) as well as demographic factors (sex, ethnicity, and age) on the perception of media coverage of a controve... Read More about Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias.

Opera Indigene: Critical perspectives on re/presenting first nations and indigenous cultures (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The world's first international conference on the participation in and creation of opera by peoples of Indigenous or First Nations identities.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives (2008)
Journal Article

Recognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a 'privileged gerontocracy' because of their greater access... Read More about The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives.

Pine (2008)
Book

The eighteenth in the second series of Matt’s Gallery ‘booklets’, published to accompany the exhibition Pine.

Agricultural policy (2008)
Book Chapter

The agricultural policy of the New Labour governments has been central in their approach to governing the countryside. This is highlighted in the rhetoric of multifunctional agriculture, which stresses the central contribution that farmers make to th... Read More about Agricultural policy.

Co-creative design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is concerned with the need to understand creativity both as a general feature of cultural change (associated with the processes of cultural promiscuity and hybridisation), and as a form of cultural capital used in strategies of scoail dist... Read More about Co-creative design.