All Outputs (6)

‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. (2011)
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Wasson, S. (2010). ‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry

Recent studies of nation and memory propose a new ethics of mourning in which normative mourning – working through grief, accepting loss, and ultimately finding solace – is increasingly seen as ethically suspect. The challenges normative mourning pos... Read More about ‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry..

Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. (2011)
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Wasson, S. (2010). Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry

This paper explores a key fantasy trope in Peake’s wartime poetry, arguing that his work offers a valuable counterweight to dominant period discourses of nationhood. Adam Roberts opens the way to such analysis, noting that the Titus books are ‘accoun... Read More about Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry..

One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War. (2009)
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Wasson, S. (2009). One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War.

Nerve and bone: the damaged body and metaphors of artistic creation in Swinburne's verse. (2008)
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Wasson, S. (2008). Nerve and bone: the damaged body and metaphors of artistic creation in Swinburne's verse

Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning. (2007)
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Wasson, S. (2007). Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning.

The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations. (2007)
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Wasson, S. (2007). The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations.