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Dry River (2023)
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Sara Greystone’s career as a public defender is spiraling after a disastrous court case, and now her husband’s IT career is also in jeopardy. A move to California is supposed to get them both back on their feet, but the state is in the midst of a cri... Read More about Dry River.

Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture (2023)
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Freeman, M., & Smith, A. (2023). Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately transmedial of media constructs, formed as they are from all kinds of industrial, technological and discursive phenomena. Yet very few... Read More about Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture.

Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement (2023)
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(2023). H. Price, & D. McIntyre (Eds.), Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement. Routledge

Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of th... Read More about Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement.

Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent (2022)
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(2022). L. Rumson, & A. Bentham (Eds.), Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent. Emerald

A ‘good woman’ is hard to find. To be ‘good’, after all, women face expectations that are shifting, internally contradictory, emotionally extreme, and prospectively even deadly. To be divergent, on the other hand, is an expansive position, encompassi... Read More about Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent.

Rethinking horror in the new economies of television (2022)
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Gaynor, S. (2022). Rethinking horror in the new economies of television. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97589-0

This book explores the cycle of horror on US television in the decade following the launch of The Walking Dead, considering the horror genre from an industrial perspective. Examining TV horror through rich industrial and textual analysis, this book r... Read More about Rethinking horror in the new economies of television.

The Babel Lexicon of Language (2022)
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McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L., Evans, M., Price, H., & Gold, E. (2022). The Babel Lexicon of Language. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886062

What's the word that describes the process of making supportive noises when you're listening to someone? What is syntax and how does it differ from grammar? Do you know what a morpheme is? And did you know that it's not only an atom that has a nucleu... Read More about The Babel Lexicon of Language.

Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures (2021)
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Magennis, C. (2021). Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350074750

The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This bo... Read More about Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures.

The COVID Clay Diary (2021)
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Wednesday 10.38am

I’m afraid...

Well, maybe not afraid, but disconcerted, unsettled, a little
perturbed. The ground beneath my feet feels unstable, a bit like one of those fairground attractions I remember from my childhood
with the slidin... Read More about The COVID Clay Diary.