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Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music (2015)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2015). Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2462

In his article "Representations of Politicians in Contemporary Ghanaian Hiplife Music" Mark Nartey argues that in Asare Obeng's music politicians in Ghana are depicted as self-seeking, self-serving, and self-centered. Further, he argues that since it... Read More about Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music.

Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion (2015)
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Lander, R. (2015). Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion. Journal of Sonic Studies,

In 2010 I was struck by the real-life drama of Julian Assange and the leaking of secret documents by WikiLeaks. This was a story that broke across multiple sources – newspapers, radio, TV, government briefings, and WikiLeaks counter briefings. Then t... Read More about Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion.

Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course (2014)
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Nartey, M., & Dorgbetor, N. (2014). Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course. Journal of Educational and Social Research, 4(6), 167-174. https://doi.org/10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n6p167

In the last two and half decades, academic literacy has received considerable attention in tertiary education in several English-medium universities. Consequently, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and analogous writing programs have constantly bee... Read More about Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course.

Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English (2014)
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Ngula, R. S., & Nartey, M. (2014). Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, 20(3), 79-92

In the last two decades, the compilation of corpora and the analysis of linguistic phenomena via corpus data have become a fascinating linguistic practice around the world and by this, corpus linguistics is now firmly established as a credible approa... Read More about Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English.

A semantic investigation into the use of modal auxiliary verbs in the manifesto of a Ghanaian political party (2014)
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Nartey, M., & Yankson, F. E. (2014). A semantic investigation into the use of modal auxiliary verbs in the manifesto of a Ghanaian political party. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(3), 21-30

Political election manifestos are public declarations of political parties, in which they explicitly stipulate their policies in a bid to win over the electorate. This study explores, in situ, the semantic underpinnings of modal auxiliary verbs in th... Read More about A semantic investigation into the use of modal auxiliary verbs in the manifesto of a Ghanaian political party.

A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students (2013)
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Nartey, M. (2013). A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students. Language in India, 13(12), 114-141

In the last half a decade, social network sites (SNSs) have wrought a tremendous impact on interpersonal communication across the world to the extent that it can be postulated, arguably, that such sites/platforms represent the commonest new media in... Read More about A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students.

A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2013)
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Sivyer, C. (2013). A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”. Gender Forum, 44, 45-61

Angela Carter’s short story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a reworking of traditional fairy tales, or as she suggested “stories about fairy stories.” Carter takes up the flexible structure of the fairy story in order to communicat... Read More about A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”.

Law and nineteenth-century literature (2004)
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Ballinger, G. (2004). Law and nineteenth-century literature. Literature Compass, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00053.x

This article examines the connections between law and literature, briefly considering work accomplished in this interdisciplinary field before focusing upon Charles Dickens's debate with the legal reformer and barrister James Fitzjames Stephen over t... Read More about Law and nineteenth-century literature.

Public image and private self in Rousseau and Browning (2004)
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Martens, B. (2004). Public image and private self in Rousseau and Browning. Browning Society Notes, 29, 30-41

This article examines how Browning used Rousseau’s confessional aesthetics as a point of reference when defining his own poetics.

Tribute to Tracy Hansen (2002)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2002). Tribute to Tracy Hansen. The Wing of Friendship, 4

Introduction (1999)
Journal Article
Cook, J. R., Spicer, A., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1999). Introduction. Women's Writing, 6(3), 279-283

Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. (1995)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1995). Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 18(1), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00183.x

Margaret Jacob, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) and Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europ... Read More about Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob..

The Dracula weekend (1990)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The Dracula weekend. The Vampire Magazine, 5-8

The vampire plague (1990)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The vampire plague. The Blood is the Life, V, 6-9