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A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing (2014)
Journal Article
Archer. (2014). A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing. Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu008

This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen / The Killing (2007) into David Hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-f... Read More about A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing.

Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (2014)
Journal Article
Palladino. (2014). Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), 287 -303. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2014.900999

This study addresses the underdeveloped dialogue in contemporary intercultural relations between Italy and its ‘others’ to examine the ways in which Amara Lakhous' novel Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (2010) [Divorce Islamic style in viale Mar... Read More about Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi.

Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels (2013)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2013). Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels. English, 69 - 86 (17). https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft001

This article looks at the three William McIlvanney novels featuring detective Jack Laidlaw – Laidlaw (1977), The Papers of Tony Veitch (1983), and Strange Loyalties (1991). It examines the shift from third-person narration in the first two books to f... Read More about Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels.

Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics (2012)
Journal Article
Palladino. (2012). Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 334 -352

This study seeks to examine the ethical import of Morrison's eighth novel, Love (2003), through analysis of its narrative forms. With a complex weaving of narrative voices that offer oppositional points of views, Love demands that readers reconsider... Read More about Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics.

"As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642) (2011)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2011). "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642). Prose Studies, 1 -18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778

When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from... Read More about "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642).

The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877 (2009)
Thesis
Barrett, R. The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/605725

This is a comparative study of representations of the woman question in nineteenth-century English and Russian literature between 1848 and 1877. Here I examine how the issues of the woman question were reflected in contemporary fiction, focusing upon... Read More about The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877.

Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition
Thesis
Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/403822

This thesis closes an existing gap within the field of Victorian poetry scholarship, as the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite and working-class poets has yet to be explored in depth by critics, in part because they superficially appear to be dispar... Read More about Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition.