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Sport and Christianity in American cinema ‘The beloved grew fat and kicked’ (Deuteronomy 32:15)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-21)
Christianity has been an enduring feature of films featuring sports or sporting figures since the early twentieth century, such that religious icons, references and rituals have now become naturalised as familiar and ...
To the tune of "Queen Dido": The spectropoetics of early modern English balladry
(2017-04-12)
[No abstract available]
John Locke, Edward Stillingfleet, and the Quarrel over Consensus
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-02)
Philosophical antagonism and dispute by no means confined to the early modern period nonetheless enjoyed a moment of particular ferment as new methods and orientations on questions of epistemology and ethics developed ...
“Memory Cheats”: deception, recollection, and the problem of reading in The Captain And The Enemy
(Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository, University of North Georgia, 2017)
The Captain and the Enemy is one of
Greene’s least well-known and least loved
novels. It has received little critical attention,
but that is hardly any wonder: it is a
frustrating, perplexing, and ultimately
unfulfilling ...
Pagan angels and a moral law: Byron and Moore's blasphemous publications
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-01)
Lord Byron's Cain and Thomas Moore's The Loves of the Angels are linked by critical accusations of blasphemy which threatened their legal and commercial integrity. Comparing the critical and legal reception of the two works ...
Unsoiled soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity
(Duquesne University Press, 2017)
[No abstract available]
Thanhouser's ‘Fierce Abridgement’ of Cymbeline
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-06)
[No abstract available]
‘Great Joys Were My Share Always’: Ibsenite echoes in Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows
(International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Japan, 2017)
[No abstract available]
Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)
The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ...
Performances of situated knowledge in the ageing female body
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-11-25)
Kathleen Woodward describes how the ageing female body is both hyper-visible and invisible: mass media representations tend to regulate expectations for how women are to behave as they age while rendering them obsolete and ...