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Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy' (2022)
Book Chapter
Richardson, J., & Wodak, R. (2022). Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy'. In Conspiracy Theory Discourses (395-420). https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.17ric

This chapter presents a Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of the antisemitic conspiracy theory at the heart of ‘anti-Sorosism’. Anti-Sorosism is a term used to label the global campaign against George Soros, a Jewish American philanthropist of Hung... Read More about Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy'.

Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir (2022)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2022). Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir. https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.15645

Critics have frequently argued about whether early modern plays like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night are ultimately subversive or conservative in their attitudes towards gender and sexuality. Stephen Greenblatt, for example, claims that Twelfth Night’s c... Read More about Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir.

The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War (2022)
Journal Article
Seager. (2023). The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War. Review of English Studies, 74(314), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac082

Daniel Defoe’s pirate novel Captain Singleton (1720) was republished in 1757, during the political and military crises of the early stages of the Seven Years’ War. The fact that Singleton at this time was extensively rewritten has gone entirely unnot... Read More about The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War.

Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood (2022)
Journal Article
Jenner, M. S. R., & Liapi, L. (2022). Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood. Seventeenth Century, 38(2), 185-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2022.2144939

This article centres on the pamphlet The Life and Death of Griffin Flood informer (1623), which tells the career and execution through pressing of an informer and murderer working in early modern London. It outlines what archival research reveals abo... Read More about Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood.

‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman. Neohelicon, 627 - 644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-022-00666-6

The overall aims of this article are to revisit one of the key contributions to narratology of the late twentieth century, Juri Lotman's The origin of plot in the light of typology of 1973, to attempt to determine its place in Lotman's work as a whol... Read More about ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman.

International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece (2022)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2022). International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece. Fascism, 11(2), 187 - 210. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10048

The rise and victory of Italian Fascism in the first half of the 1920s passed Greece by. Yet soon afterwards the international experience of 'fascism' found more receptive audiences within the prodigious dissident 'third spaces' where more and more m... Read More about International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece.