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Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même (2005)
Journal Article

This article contributes to a growing body of theory that posits language-external, social factors as a primary motor in diachronic change. Politeness theory and the use of variationist approaches enable us to posit, and test, the hypothesis of a typ... Read More about Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même.

A critical survey of creative production in relation to the market potential of artists’ books (2005)
Other

Published results of a one-year AHRC supported survey project (30/05/04 – 30/05/05) to compare the different methods used by artists for creating and distributing their work; in order to offer advice to artists on how to market their work and build b... Read More about A critical survey of creative production in relation to the market potential of artists’ books.

A perpetual portfolio (2005)
Exhibition / Performance

The Catalogue for the Perpetual Portfolio Exhibition was released at the Museo Nacional Del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2005. The publication includes all twenty-three prints produce during the CFPR digital residency programme of which e... Read More about A perpetual portfolio.

Imperial Rhodesians: The 1953 Rhodes centenary exhibition in Southern Rhodesia (2005)
Journal Article

Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myt... Read More about Imperial Rhodesians: The 1953 Rhodes centenary exhibition in Southern Rhodesia.

Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans (2005)
Journal Article

A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man nam... Read More about Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans.

Emerging platform identities: Big Brother UK and interactive multi-platform usage (2005)
Book Chapter

Your room or mine? Spatial politics in children's literature (2005)
Journal Article

German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944 (2005)
Journal Article

For most of the Second World War, German and Italian agents were actively engaged in a variety of intelligence gathering exercises in southern Africa. The hub of this activity was Lourenço Marques, the colonial capital of Portuguese East Africa (Moza... Read More about German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944.

“Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers (2005)
Journal Article

With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victo... Read More about “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers.

The splintering of Spain: Cultural history and the Spanish civil war, 1936-39 (2005)
Book

Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
Journal Article

Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.

Beyond arthurian romances: The reach of victorian medievalism (2005)
Book

© Lorretta M. Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren 2005. All rights reserved. Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense... Read More about Beyond arthurian romances: The reach of victorian medievalism.

What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran (2005)
Journal Article

This was a counterpoint to the book chapter on service comedy. It explored a different type of 'unofficial' counter-hegemonic constructions of the Second World War' by focusing on a group of British films made immediately after the war and sporadical... Read More about What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran.

Opportunity knocks? The impact of bursary schemes on students from low-income backgrounds (2005)
Journal Article

Who benefits from widening participation? A study of targeting in the South West of England (2005)
Journal Article

As the Aimhigher programme is a targeted initiative, partnerships have to find ways of locating groups that are under-represented in higher education (HE) and selecting participants for interventions. If the selection criteria are not robust, resourc... Read More about Who benefits from widening participation? A study of targeting in the South West of England.

Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch (2005)
Journal Article

In this paper we analyze mixed compounds, such as legume+winkel ‘vegetable shop, greengrocery‘ and winter+paletot ‘winter coat’ which contain a French and a Dutch element, and French nominal groups, such as carte d'identité ‘identity card’, and journ... Read More about Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch.

Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art (2005)
Journal Article

The paper examines the concerns of the art critic and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit with the myth of Eden in the book of Genesis, the assumptions of a Judaeo-Christian monotheism and its secular inheritance, as a means to introduce the need for a '... Read More about Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art.

Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy and science in colonial administration, 1920s Southern Rhodesia (2005)
Journal Article

Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows: Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics (2005)
Journal Article

Is redistribution a form of recognition? Comments on the Fraser-Honneth debate (2005)
Journal Article