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‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks (2008)
Journal Article
Gough, P. (2008). ‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 1(3), 341-356

The work of ‘regimental artists’ is often derided for being jingoistic, irrelevant and predicated on anachronistic representational strategies rooted in high-Victorian battle painting. Despite their marginal status, a core of professional painters to... Read More about ‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks.

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (2008)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2008). Philosophies of Nature After Schelling. London and New York: Continuum

“The whole of modern European philosophy”, wrote F.W.J. Schelling in 1809, “has this common deficiency – that nature does not exist for it.” Despite repeated echoes of Schelling’s assessment throughout the natural sciences, and despite the philosophy... Read More about Philosophies of Nature After Schelling.

Lexical Patterns: from Hornby to Hunston and beyond. The Hornby Lecture (2008)
Book Chapter
Hanks, P. (2008). Lexical Patterns: from Hornby to Hunston and beyond. The Hornby Lecture. In E. Bernal, & J. DeCesaris (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIII EURALEX International Congress (Barcelona, 15-19 July 2008). Barcelona: Iula, Documenta Universitaria

Correct identification of word meaning is a long-standing problem for lexicography, language teaching, linguistic theory, and computer processing of text. Traditional approaches typically proceed word by word, relying on evidence from introspection –... Read More about Lexical Patterns: from Hornby to Hunston and beyond. The Hornby Lecture.

Creating an on-line interactive database to aid research into historic printmaking processes and techniques (2008)
Dataset
Hill, V., & Thirkell, P. (2008). Creating an on-line interactive database to aid research into historic printmaking processes and techniques. [Dataset]

An electronic archive designed to house digitized images of the RE print collection to present to a wider audience than currently possible due to the geographical limitations inherent in physical material. This archive opens up the collection to inte... Read More about Creating an on-line interactive database to aid research into historic printmaking processes and techniques.

Entry on Andrei Gromyko (2008)
Book Chapter
Kocho-Williams, A. (2008). Entry on Andrei Gromyko. In R. van Dijk (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (387-388). New York and Oxford: Routledge

Entry on Eduard Shevardnadze (2008)
Book Chapter
Kocho-Williams, A. (2008). Entry on Eduard Shevardnadze. In R. van Dijk (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (782-783). New York and Oxford: Routledge

Entry on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (2008)
Book Chapter
Kocho-Williams, A. (2008). Entry on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In R. van Dijk (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (596-598). New York and Oxford: Routledge

The role of clean technological change and networking in the emergence of small-scale enterprise clusters: an empirical study in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam (2008)
Journal Article
Konstadakopulos, D. (2008). The role of clean technological change and networking in the emergence of small-scale enterprise clusters: an empirical study in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 4, 30-64

This paper reports on a survey on the environmental conditions in three small-scale enterprise clusters in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The survey attempted to identify the existence and contribution of environmental innovation networks t... Read More about The role of clean technological change and networking in the emergence of small-scale enterprise clusters: an empirical study in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam.

Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning (2008)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2008). Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning. In S. Friedman, E. Guiliano, A. Humpherys, N. McKnight, & M. Timko (Eds.), Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction (223-248). New York: Ams Press, Inc

As an object of macabre fascination, the Paris morgue is without parallel in the Victorian imagination. This article explores the representation of visits to the morgue in Dickens’s Uncommercial Traveller and in Browning’s dramatic monologue “Apparen... Read More about Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning.

The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice (2008)
Journal Article
Partington, A. (2008). The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice. Journal of Media Practice, 9(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.1.9_1

This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitione... Read More about The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice.

Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight (2008)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2008). Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight. In J. Kerr (Ed.), Night: A Time Between (7-10). Bristol: Royal West of England Academy

A short catalogue essay on the critical reception of British moonlight painting c.1720-1860.

Vital illusions in The Portrait of a Lady (2008)
Book Chapter
Rawlings, P. (2008). Vital illusions in The Portrait of a Lady. In G. W. Zacharias (Ed.), A Companion to Henry James (70-88). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

When we finish our job, we will cut off our beards: New York Times coverage of Fidel Castro's 1959 U.S. visit (2008)
Journal Article
Ruggiero, T. (2008). When we finish our job, we will cut off our beards: New York Times coverage of Fidel Castro's 1959 U.S. visit

During a brief historical moment, April 15-26, 1959, Fidel Castro and a delgation of more than fifty industrial and international representatives visited the United States as guests of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The 32-year-old Cuban... Read More about When we finish our job, we will cut off our beards: New York Times coverage of Fidel Castro's 1959 U.S. visit.

Playing with fire: group exhibition (2008)
Physical Artefact
Turrell, J., & Turrell, E. C. Playing with fire: group exhibition

Playing with Fire aimed to be the biggest presentation of enamel art to have taken place in the UK. The Devon Guild of Craftsmen along with the University of the West of England and the British Society of Enamellers presented this major survey of con... Read More about Playing with fire: group exhibition.

Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics (2008)
Journal Article
Meacham, D. E. (2008). Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics. Chiasmi International, 9, 65-93

Recent advances in the field of genetics, more specifically the substantiation of epigenetic inheritance, have expanded our understanding of genetic transmission. We will try to demonstrate here that a Merleau-Pontian approach to some of these recent... Read More about Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics.