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Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate? (2018)
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accurate?. Comedy Studies, 9(1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1437166

Are the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy in the process of transformation? I am seeking in this paper to address challenging questions concerning the increasing disappearance of the 'serious' comedy, especially the satirical play on the UK stage... Read More about Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate?.

In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
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Bull, M. (2018). In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis. South European Society and Politics, 23(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1433477

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently mad... Read More about In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis.

Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism? (2018)
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Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2018). Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?. South European Society and Politics, 23(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1436493

Italian politics have undergone momentous change in the 2007–2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011–2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992–1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian poli... Read More about Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?.

Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016 (2018)
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Correia, A. (2018). Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016. CAA.reviews (New York, N.Y.), https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2018.39

Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past is both a fascinating and frustrating compendium of art made since the sixteenth century that either depicts, reflects, or comments upon, British colonialism. Written by a team of Tate curators, with... Read More about Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016.

An Architectural Approach To Level Design (2018)
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Ali, U. (2018). An Architectural Approach To Level Design. ˜The œcomputer games journal, 7(1), 39-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-017-0050-7

This paper review’s Christopher Totten’s 2014 book, An Architectural Approach to Level Design. Totten’s work arguably represents the most advanced and up to date discussion in applying traditional architecture principles to level design. The work in... Read More about An Architectural Approach To Level Design.

Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses (2018)
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Danaan, V. (2018). Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses. Journal of Sustainable Development, 11(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v11n1p20

Various indicators suggest that poverty is a major obstacle to Nigeria’s socio-economic development. Poverty has persisted, and several interventions have failed to yield significant improvement in Nigeria’s Human Development Index even in periods of... Read More about Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses.

Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth (2018)
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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.

Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics (2018)
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Wilson, J., & Price, H. (2018). Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Politeness Research, 14(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0056

In this article, we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a... Read More about Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics.

The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English) (2018)
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Hurley, U., & Naray-Davey, S. (2018). The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English). Cogent Arts and Humanities, 5(1), 1426183. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1426183

This interdisciplinary paper unfolds an account of a collaborative translation project, which draws on Ellen Eve Frank’s concept of “literary architecture” to propose a process of “architectural translation”. Our proposal is illustrated by a detailed... Read More about The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English).

Cold War Nostalgia in The Game (2018)
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Barnett, N. (2018). Cold War Nostalgia in The Game. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(3), 436-452. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431

This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played b... Read More about Cold War Nostalgia in The Game.

The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable (2018)
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Kendall, J. (2018). The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable. Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 4,

As Tolkien himself asserted, his creative writing processes were fundamentally linguistic. They were driven by his private invented languages, by the names in those languages, and by linguistic aesthetics. To a great extent, the purpose of his creati... Read More about The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable.

“Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC (2017)
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Flanagan, M. (2017). “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC. Authorship (Gent), 6(2), https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v6i2.7701

Paul Cornell’s work for the ‘Big Two’ U.S. comic publishers transfers a distinctly British (mostly English) sensibility into a field where cues normally revolve around American cultural iconography and values. The key to his authorship is Cornell’s h... Read More about “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC.

‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime (2017)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2017). ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime. Mutual images, 3, 43-69. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.3.her.think

This paper contextualises the mutual perceptions between Spain and Japan through the historical background and some examples within several creative industries. Subsequently, the paper reviews the ways in which transnational popular culture has been... Read More about ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime.