Outputs (1085)

The translation of children's literature: Ideology and cultural adaptations. Captain Underpants as a case study (2016)
Thesis

The aim of this research is to explore cultural differences in the children’s publishing industry in the USA and Spain and the impact these have on translation, and to develop a case study of the translation of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series... Read More about The translation of children's literature: Ideology and cultural adaptations. Captain Underpants as a case study.

'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. This article aims to present new understandings of how place, identity, and text are configured in British modernist poetry, particularly in the extended poem. Focusing chiefly on Basil Bunting's Briggflatts (1966), the discussion... Read More about 'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place.

‘That Tricky Subject’: The Integration of Contextual Studies in pre-Degree Art and Design Education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. iJADE © 2016 NSEAD/John Wiley & Sons Ltd Contextual studies (CS), ‘theory’, ‘visual culture’ or ‘art history’ (amongst other labels) refer to a regular and often compulsory feature in art and design education. However, this take... Read More about ‘That Tricky Subject’: The Integration of Contextual Studies in pre-Degree Art and Design Education.

Brief report: A pilot study of the use of a virtual reality headset in autism populations (2016)
Journal Article

The application of virtual reality technologies (VRTs) for users with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been studied for decades. However, a gap remains in our understanding surrounding VRT head-mounted displays (HMDs). As newly designed HMDs have b... Read More about Brief report: A pilot study of the use of a virtual reality headset in autism populations.

A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the work of the High Commission for Russian Refugees of the League of Nations. It analyses their approach to solving the issue of child refugees and places this in debates around the historical development of human rights and hu... Read More about A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism.

CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension (2016)
Book Chapter

In the 1970’s, Rayner Banham (with Marshall McLuhan), set the tone for understanding CyberCity/MindSpace with Banham’s book, Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies, which was an examination of the LA cityscape which used the idea of the movi... Read More about CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension.

The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. ABSTRACT: This paper reflects on approaches to collaborative knowledge exchange projects between UK universities and the creative economy. It develops a preliminary account of cultural e... Read More about The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy.

Wargaming (as) literature (2016)
Book Chapter

As Kirschenbaum argues, board wargames have a lot to teach about the ways that narrative is created in games and “help us to understand the role of process and procedure in stories and games” (Kirschenbaum 2009: 369). In addition, they have a rich hi... Read More about Wargaming (as) literature.

The female Gothic body (2016)
Book Chapter

This analysis explores the evolution of the female Gothic body through literature, history and myth in relation to the Gothic tradition.

The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This article contributes to the creative city–community development arts policy debate by examining the association of arts organizations to various neighborhood contexts in New York City. Results from multivariate regre... Read More about The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet?.