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'"Am currently in Misrata...": Assessing the impact of the work and death of photojournalist Tim Hetherington.' (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, E. (2011). '"Am currently in Misrata...": Assessing the impact of the work and death of photojournalist Tim Hetherington.'. In Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Springabramis

This chapter assesses the work of visionary photojournalist Tim Hetherington, a British citizen who lived and worked in the USA, who was killed by shrapnel in the Libyan city of Misrata on April 20th 2011. The author examines the education, career an... Read More about '"Am currently in Misrata...": Assessing the impact of the work and death of photojournalist Tim Hetherington.'.

"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. (2011)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2011). "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (73-86). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0005

This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to... Read More about "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning..

Crime (2011)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2011). Crime. In S. Ledger, & H. Furneaux (Eds.), Charles Dickens in Context, (301-309). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511975493.039

Reflecting on society's treatment of convicts in 1891, Oscar Wilde declared that ‘one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more br... Read More about Crime.

Introduction (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S., & Palmer McCulloch, M. (2011). Introduction. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (1-5). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. (2011)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011). Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (86-97). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006

This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were moving in the direction of literary modernism as they wrote fictions that at... Read More about Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad..

Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E., & Wasson, S. (2011). Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. In Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0001

This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its textual forms. The chapters in this compilation provides sample writings p... Read More about Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010.

Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011). Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic engineering, creates a cultural unrest and horror. The strange metamorphosis... Read More about Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle.

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. (2011)
Book Chapter
Fleming, L., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2011). In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. In The History of Reading, Volume 2, evidence from the British Isles , c1750-1950 (189-205). Palgrave Macmillan

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland.

Digging Deeper: Reflecting on the Development and Teaching of Investigative Journalism in a University Setting in the United Kingdom (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, E. (2011). Digging Deeper: Reflecting on the Development and Teaching of Investigative Journalism in a University Setting in the United Kingdom. In Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive? (291-307). abramis

This chapter examined the status of investigative journalism in the UK, including work being done in the independent and online sectors.

‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (136-146). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0010

This chapter addresses Lewis Grassic Gibbon's quest to shatter the colonial conception of East and West and return to an age of cosmopolitanism. His idealistic model of a cosmopolitan future is deeply informed by his reading of the past as adapted fr... Read More about ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism.

MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (68-81). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Dysphagia, Behavior, and Quality of Life (2011)
Book Chapter
de Luis, D. A., Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2011). Dysphagia, Behavior, and Quality of Life. In Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition, 3163-3172. Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92271-3_196

Oropharyngeal dysphagia is associated with high mortality, morbidity, and cost. Estimates of the prevalence of dysphagia among individuals older than 50 years ranges from 15% to 22%. The correct evaluation of a patient with dysphagia must not only ta... Read More about Dysphagia, Behavior, and Quality of Life.