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Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels. (2016)
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Peacock. (2016). Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels

This article looks at three New York crime novels by Reggie Nadelson - Disturbed Earth (2004), Red Hook (2005) and Manhattan 62 (2014). It argues that the atmosphere in these stories is, partly in response to 9/11, exaggeratedly apocalyptic, but that... Read More about Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels..

From CAUR to EUR: Italian Fascism, the "myth of Rome' and the pursuit of international primacy (2016)
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Kallis, A. (2016). From CAUR to EUR: Italian Fascism, the "myth of Rome' and the pursuit of international primacy. Patterns of Prejudice, 359 -377. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2016.1243347

The formation of Fascist Italy's international imaginary in the 1930s tells a fascinating story of growing global political ambition, of constant recalibration in the face of seismic geopolitical shifts and, in the end, a (frustrated) pursuit of symb... Read More about From CAUR to EUR: Italian Fascism, the "myth of Rome' and the pursuit of international primacy.

Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014) (2016)
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Archer. (2016). Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014). Studies in European Cinema, 246-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1249228

his essay considers the role of imitation in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Trip to Italy, with reference to the performances of mimicry by its two protagonists (Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon), but also on the part of the film itself, both as a sequel... Read More about Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014).

'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
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(2016). 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268

This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.

“My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2016). “My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268

This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about “My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.

Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten (2016)
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Kauders, A. (2016). Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten. Hypnose – Zeitschrift für Hypnose und Hypnotherapie, 11(1 + 2), 63-80

In seiner Beschreibung der Unterschiede zwischen Zustands- und Nichtzustandstheorien innerhalb der Hypnoseforschung differenziert der Sozialpsychologe Theodore Sarbin zwischen ‚happenings’ und ‚doings’. Der Beitrag greift diesen Gegensatz auf, um Par... Read More about Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten.

Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002) (2016)
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(2016). Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002). The Journal of North African Studies, 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1229184

This article charts the roles and representations of Algerian Women as both agents and victims of violence in the War of Independence (1956–1962) and the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s in which the role of women emerged as a significant site of ideo... Read More about Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002).

Register, Dialect, Convolution and ‘Crosstalk’: reflections on ‘… the zones of influence and hybridity between electroacoustic, acousmatique music, techno and IDM’ (2016)
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(2016). Register, Dialect, Convolution and ‘Crosstalk’: reflections on ‘… the zones of influence and hybridity between electroacoustic, acousmatique music, techno and IDM’. Contemporary Music Review, 166-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2016.1221631

This paper explores the hybridisation of musical elements, particularly between those that foreground the use of technology across popular and art music. In its original form, the paper was presented to a conference Embracing rhythm?…?welcoming abstr... Read More about Register, Dialect, Convolution and ‘Crosstalk’: reflections on ‘… the zones of influence and hybridity between electroacoustic, acousmatique music, techno and IDM’.

Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie (2016)
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Morgan. (2016). Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie. Nottingham French Studies, 224-238. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0150

This article is part of a project entitled, ‘Heartlands/Pays du cœur’. This aims to offer new critical approaches to Québec's ‘regional’ novel; focusing on representations of rural, semi-rural, exurban and urban spaces and places outside of the provi... Read More about Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie.

The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
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Janes. (2016). The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1120085

The Wordless Book is widely used today in programs of Christian teaching and evangelism across the world. It consists of a series of blank pages which are colored in accordance with religious symbolism (black in reference to sin, red in reference to... Read More about The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain.

A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (2016)
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Sargent. (2016). A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth. Midland History, 41(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159851

The twelfth-century Life of St Modwynn of Burton upon Trent (Staffordshire) includes an episode in which St Modwynn and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (Warwickshire) resurrect a nun named Osgyth who had drowned in a river. Current scholarly consensus locat... Read More about A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth.

Singing the war: reconfiguring white upper-class identity through fusion music in post-war Lima (2016)
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Montero Diaz, R. (2016). Singing the war: reconfiguring white upper-class identity through fusion music in post-war Lima. Ethnomusicology Forum, 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2016.1161528

Between 1980 and 2000, Peru was engulfed in an internal war confronting the state and two armed groups, the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. In the aftermath, violence was replaced by silence along with distrust, disunity and... Read More about Singing the war: reconfiguring white upper-class identity through fusion music in post-war Lima.