Browsing School of English and Creative Arts by Author "Barr, Rebecca Anne"

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    • Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015)
      Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...

    • Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      James Macpherson s Ossian poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ...

    • For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      The argument presented by a scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a very small group of editors. But is it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps competing, ...

    • The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010)
      David Lynch has long been identified with 'New American Gothic', a late capitalist cinematography that disrupts the glossy normalcy of the American dream with visions of violent menace, and physical and sexual aberrancy. ...

    • Introduction 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne (Glyphi, 2012)

    • Men, women, and not quite non-persons: derivatization in Roxana 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne (Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2018)
      This article argues that Roxana exemplifies a peculiarly modern mode of “derivatization”: a form of “ontological reductionism” articulated by Ann J. Cahill in which individuals are diminished to “the reflection, projection, ...

    • Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Kelly, David; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      This Digital Demo will present Ossian Online, a social edition of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of ...

    • Persepolis: the story of a childhood 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne (Cambridge University Students Union, 2005-06)
      Review of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel 'Persepolis'.

    • Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      Ossian Online is a project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. The project will ...

    • Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne (The Eighteenth Century, 2010-12-01)
      Proceeding from the academic orthodoxy that the eighteenth-century novel is a key site of the creation of modern subjectivity, this essay examines the representations of authority, morality, and community in Richardson's ...