School of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Some New Uses of the Geniza Mercantile Letter – On the Materiality of Writing in the Indian Ocean World.
(Book chapter)This contribution centres on the materiality of writing in exchanges between the Eastern Mediterranean and India’s western seaboard in the period before 1500. More specifically it focuses on the writing supports and marking ... -
Material cultures of writing in the medieval Indian Ocean world. On the reception of a palm leaf letter at the Mamluk court
(Book chapter)This contribution centres on writing technologies in the western Indian Ocean before 1500; more particularly it explores the communicative role of writing supports in long distance, transcultural interactions through a ... -
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
(Book)This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period ... -
Scholarly method, truth, and evidence in Shakespearian textual studies
(Article)Although their raw materials are often the same, the methods of Shakespearian textual scholarship can be markedly different from those of Shakespearian literary-dramatic criticism, which are different again from those of ... -
Identifying the Socio-Economics of Pantomime through Cinderella’s Footwear in 2017-18 Adaptations of the Tale.
(Article)Footwear plays a significant role in the fairy tale Cinderella and in different versions of the tale the eponymous character’s slipper has taken many different forms. Meanwhile, pantomime producers have for centuries been ... -
I am Cinderella: Naming, Power and Identity
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
(Article)This collection offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and ... -
“Football more important than Berlin”: East German Football vs. NATO, 1960-64
(Book chapter)In the early 1960s Portugal and the Netherlands confronted the problem of East German participation in the UEFA Junior Tournament and Olympic qualification. Although not very important tournaments, domestic governments ... -
Introduction
(Book chapter)Sport and diplomacy have been mutually intertwined in transnational networks of governance and competition – not just on the field of play – and the non-governmental bodies controlling the sport play an important role ... -
Global Players: Soccer and Diplomacy
(Book)The book explores the nexus of the world’s most popular sport and diplomacy, as a tool of the nation-state based diplomacy, as diplomacy of soccer as a non-state actor, and via the relationship between soccer and a variety ... -
By the Light of the Moon
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New Shoes, Old Paths: Disney’s Cinderella(s)
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Tailoring Cinderella: Perrault, Grimm and their Beautiful Heritage
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Her Own Words Describe Her Best? Reconstructing Plath’s Original Ariel in Sylvia (2003) and Wintering (2003)
(Article)This article explores two of Sylvia Plath’s afterlives: John Brownlow and Christine Jeffs’ biopic Sylvia (2003) and Kate Moses’s novel Wintering (2003). Contrary to Frieda Hughes’s assertion that such works attempt to ... -
The Persuasion Game: Serious Gaming Information Warfare and Influence
(Article)In an age of hybrid, asymmetric, and non-linear conflict, the role of Information Operations has become ever more important. This paper presents a research project examining ways of better enabling stakeholders to respond ... -
“Bloomluxuriance:” Compound Words in the Poetry of the 1830s and 1840s
(Article)This article examines the use of compound words in the poetry of the 1830s and 40s in the light of contemporary theories about the origins and development of the English language. Focusing especially on the changes made ...
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