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Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels (2022)
Journal Article
Lustig, T. J. (2023). Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels. Children's Literature in Education, 54(4), 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-022-09475-y

Jacqueline Rose’s influential notion of the “impossibility” of children’s literature rests on the claim that such works “frame” the child and place the adult “first”. Although Ransome’s writings undoubtedly contain instances of such divisions and hie... Read More about Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels.

Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982). Life Writing, 483 - 491. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2020.1769304

This article explores Janet Frame's first autobiography To the Is-Land, reading Frame's relentless cataloguing of objects as indicative of her wider, post-imperial, life writing project. Frame insists that her ancestors (white Scottish settlers who a... Read More about Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982).

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2020). “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy. Shakespeare, 16(4), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2020.1787496

Any discussion of comedy as a dramatic form is rendered difficult by the fact that the term "comedy" has two quite separate meanings: a work that is intended to make spectators laugh and a work that has a happy ending. In the early modern period, lit... Read More about “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy.

An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994). Wasafiri, 10 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2020.1760468

This article rereads Penelope Lively's first memoir Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) as not only witnessing the end of British colonial rule, but also revealing how life in England – and more widely Britain – elides and conceals the impact of Empire. Livel... Read More about An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994).

'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative. In Documenting Trauma in Comics Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage (199-219). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37998-8_12

This chapter discusses Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?, a sequence of 784 paintings created between 1940 and 1942 by a young German-Jewish artist. Focusing upon three key paintings within the cycle, and in particular their representations of op... Read More about 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative.

Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy (2019)
Book
Hayes. (2019). Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11401-5

This book examines the Teaching Excellence Framework, and how this and various other educational policies create conditions for the exclusion of cross-border learners. As universities become increasingly globalised and seek to recruit international s... Read More about Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy.

‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing (2010)
Thesis
Regis, A. K. (2010). ‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/713668

Reading life writing as textual performance, this thesis identifies and explores different permutations of “experiment” in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing. I trace the response of multiple “acts” of (self-) representation to conflicting... Read More about ‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing.