Outputs (47)

“Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights (2017)
Journal Article
new frights. Palgrave Communications, 3, 17075. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.75

During the last ten years the ever-fertile horror and Gothic genres have birthed a new type of fright-fiction: podcast horror. Podcast horror is a narrative horror form based in audio media and the properties of sound. Despite association with oral... Read More about “Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights.

Riddle 65 : a commentary (2017)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2017). Riddle 65 : a commentary

A commentary on my translation of the Old English riddle 65 into modern English, published in the RIddle Ages blog.

Can Fake News busters replace editors? (2017)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M. (2017). Can Fake News busters replace editors?

In the debate about how to tackle the growing phenomenon of Fake News, much attention is devoted to countermeasures such as fact-checking or better media literacy, but less to the root cause of the problem. Considerable criticism focuses on the failu... Read More about Can Fake News busters replace editors?.

Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer (2017)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2017). Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2017.1343971

This article will attempt to reposition comic eccentric dance as a metamorphic form that still, surprisingly, exists, and is to be found with reasonable ubiquity, in renewed incarna-tions within twenty first century media. Tracing the origins of co... Read More about Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer.

Interview with Kate Fox – stand-up poet (2017)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2017). Interview with Kate Fox – stand-up poet. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2017.1344019

‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture (2017)
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Magennis, C. (2017). ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture. Études irlandaises, 42-1, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5183

This essay considers the representation of pleasure in three “post”-conflict Northern Irish texts: Glenn Patterson’s novel The Rest Just Follows (2014), Billy Cowan’s play Still Ill (2014) and Lucy Caldwell’s short story collection Multitudes (2016).... Read More about ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture.

Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Watson, J., & Wilson, J. (2017). Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 9(1-2), 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00901006

Until fairly recently most linguistic fieldwork relied on written records of spoken data or audio-only recordings. The recent increase in research focusing on audio-visual data, with emphasis on the co-expressiveness of speech and gesture, has led to... Read More about Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction.

Blurring boundaries in the cold war world (2017)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2017). Blurring boundaries in the cold war world. Journal of Contemporary History, 52(3), 764-775. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417702605

Interpellation and the house rehearsal room : or, why conversations like ‘Digging Deep’ matter (2017)
Journal Article
Matthews, A. (2017). Interpellation and the house rehearsal room : or, why conversations like ‘Digging Deep’ matter. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 37(1), 136-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2017.1282405

Ireland v UK : the European Court of Human Rights and international relations, 1971–1978 (2017)
Journal Article
1971–1978. European Human Rights Law Review, 2017(3), 272-284

It is rare for states to lodge inter-state cases with the European Court of Human Rights because they fear damaging their relations with the respondent states. Yet in 1971 the government of the Republic of Ireland began a case against the United King... Read More about Ireland v UK : the European Court of Human Rights and international relations, 1971–1978.