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Artistic representations of infectious disease. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Artistic representations of infectious disease. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2019.1705991

Artistic representations of disease are widespread yet largely ignored in health psychology research. In this paper we use two infectious diseases, tuberculosis and the plague, as tracers to study how infectious diseases are represented in novels, fi... Read More about Artistic representations of infectious disease..

The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 1 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1683758

This article traces the agency of Arundhati Roy’s precariat in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In her novel, Roy focuses on how those in the most precarious of social positions manage to retain a toehold within the system by defiant creativity, lat... Read More about The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space (2019)
Thesis
Campion, J. (2019). 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414976

This thesis utilises the walking-writing method to produce a work of creative non- fiction that explores the issues of memory, time and queer identity in rural spaces. The body of work about the walking-writing method has covered rural spaces and que... Read More about 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space.

‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy (2019)
Thesis
Curley, D. A. (2019). ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414216

This thesis seeks to develop a model for the analysis of rural space as a distinct category, through the integration of several of the disparate schools of thought on the subject of space. From the phenomenological to the postmodern a vacuity has lef... Read More about ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy.

Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change (2019)
Journal Article
Archer. (2019). Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change. Cinema Journal, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2019.0020

This article considers the significance of transnational production, aesthetic, and narrative strategies in recent forms of "apocalyptic" science fiction cinema. As the article explores, a more transnational mode of science fiction offers the opportu... Read More about Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change.

’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2019)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2019). ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer. Québec Studies, 68, https://doi.org/10.3828/qs.2019.18

This article considers representations of exurban spaces in Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2009), positioning it in relation to a broader take-up of “regional” spaces in Québec fiction. It argues that Delvaux’s novel is prescient in its blurring of dis... Read More about ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer.