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Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon (2021)
Thesis
Kugler, K. (2021). Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon. (Thesis). University of Salford

Simon Amstell, Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Adam Hills, Michael McIntyre, and Sarah Millican are not only well-known stand-up comedians in the United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. C... Read More about Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon.

‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers (2020)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2021). ‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers. In N. Hubble, L. Seabor, & E. Taylor (Eds.), The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (239-272). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350079175.ch-008

This chapter focuses on popular fiction and particularly the crime genre, encompassing both the detective story and the thriller. Critical surveys looking back across the decades finds these subgenres difficult to distinguish over time but writers of... Read More about ‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers.

Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword (2019)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2019). Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword. In K. Mithcell, & N. Williams (Eds.), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s. Edinburgh University Press

The foregoing chapters of this book present a full gallery of 1960s British experimental writing from the relatively popular to the more obscure. Not only do these essays start to redress a gender imbalance in awareness of experimental writers but th... Read More about Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword.

Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth (2018)
Journal Article
White, G. (2018). Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth. Textual Practice, 32(2), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2018.1413049

The founding of the Christine Brooke-Rose Society and its inaugural event prompted me to revisit my history with the author with whom I was fortunate enough to correspond during the last decade of her life. Our correspondence ran alongside my complet... Read More about Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth.

Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007) (2014)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2014). Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007). In C. Manfredi (Ed.), Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (132-147). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ concludes Alasdair Gray’s Old Men in Love (2006) and in so doing notes that Gray has told him that because “this novel would be his last (for he is seventy-two and in poor health) I [Workman] could be sure of having the la... Read More about Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007).

The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader? (2014)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2014). The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?. In J. Jordan, & M. Ryle (Eds.), B.S. Johnson and Post-War Literature : The Possibilities of the Avant-Garde (153-166). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349552_10

The symposium giving rise to this collection and the thriving of the B.S. Johnson Society both indicate that there is something exceptional going on with the literary and academic community’s relationship with this author, something we (collectively)... Read More about The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?.

'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s (2013)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2013). 'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s. In E. Mazierska (Ed.), Work in Cinema : labor and the human condition (191-207). New York: Macmillan

It is curious how relatively seldom work appears in the foreground of film comedy texts. Work is the background, the normal and quotidian against which the comic can emerge. Certainly there is humour to be found in work activities and environments, b... Read More about 'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s.

Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio (2012)
Book
White, G., & Mundy, J. (2012). Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio. Manchester University Press

Although comedy is an important aspect of contemporary culture and a significant presence in film, television and radio, there is a surprising shortage of academic writing about comedy and the media. Laughing Matters: Understanding Comedy in Film, Te... Read More about Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio.

The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction (2012)
Thesis
Barton, S. The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is a reader-focused analysis of unconventional graphic devices that appear on the pages of graphically innovative prose fictions. The main aim is to provide a study of the implications that unconventional and graphically disruptive page... Read More about The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction.