Outputs (403)

Shattered Minds (2017)
Book
Lam, L. (2017). Shattered Minds. (1). Pan MacMillan

Ex-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience, and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fuelled by the addictive drug ‘Zeal’. Now she’s heading for self-destruction – until she has a vision of a dead girl.... Read More about Shattered Minds.

Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, April). Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction. Paper presented at The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory Since 1914, University of Aberdeen

R.H. Mottram’s critically-acclaimed novels of The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1924-27) used to great effect his experience of the defining historical event of the age. These were his first novels, although he had previously been on the periphery of London’... Read More about Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction.

Introduction: Modernism and the First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction: Modernism and the First World War. Modernist Cultures, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0153

Introduction to special issue of Modernist Cultures on Modernism and the First World War. Surveys recent critical issues at the intersection of First World War and Modernist Studies, and introduces essays in the issue.

Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction. In B. Fraser, T. Mukherjee, & A. Sen (Eds.), Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (3-29). Luath Press

The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the interchange of ideas initiated in the 18th century by the Scottish Enlightenment, and the ways in which t... Read More about Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction.

Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment (2017)
Book
Fraser, B., Mukherjee, T., & Sen, A. (Eds.). (2017). Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment. Luath Press

This collection of seminal correspondences between Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Scottish polymath Robert Geddes are testimony to a great friendship and an even greater marriage between Eastern and Western schools of thought. This com... Read More about Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment.

"It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, March). "It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. Paper presented at Scottish Network of Modernist Studies workshop, University of Edinburgh

The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism. In K. Tuteja, & K. Chakraborty (Eds.), Tagore and Nationalism (245-256). BMC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3696-2_16

Rabindranath’s stand on the ideas of nation and nationalism has become a part of a national debate that often left him isolated and misunderstood in his own country. This paper explores the India Rabindranath Tagore envisioned at the end of her journ... Read More about The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism.

Masquerade (2017)
Book
Lam, L. (2017). Masquerade. Pan MacMillan

Micah's Chimaera powers are growing, until his dark visions overwhelm him. Drystan is forced to take him to Dr Pozzi, to save his life. But can they really trust the doctor, especially when a close friend is revealed to be his spy?

Meanwhile, viol... Read More about Masquerade.

These Shadows, These Ghosts (2017)
Book Chapter
Lam, L. (2017). These Shadows, These Ghosts. In H. McDaid, & L. Jones (Eds.), Nasty Women. 404 INK

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever to share real experiences and hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection... Read More about These Shadows, These Ghosts.

Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017) (2017)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2017). Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017). Punk and Post Punk, 6(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.6.1.157_7

This interview was conducted over Skype on 26 March 2017. I contacted Tim Irwin for an interview with two main goals in mind. First, I was hoping for insight into his new film about Jawbreaker, Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017), and se... Read More about Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017).

Rabindranath Tagore: An Introduction to their Ideas on Education and the Environment (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). Rabindranath Tagore: An Introduction to their Ideas on Education and the Environment. In B. Fraser, T. Mukherjee, & A. Sen (Eds.), Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment (1-13). Luath Press

No abstract available.

Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (2017)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2017). Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau. In R. J. Hill (Ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity. Routledge

This essay unravels some of the Stevensonian influences and literary allusions that Wells drew upon when conceiving The Island of Doctor Moreau. What emerges is a clear recognition of Stevenson as a major late-nineteenth-century author who played a s... Read More about Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau.

The Homing Bird (2017)
Book
Fraser, B. (2017). The Homing Bird. Indigo Dreams Publishing

No abstract available.

H. G. Wells and the Natural World (2017)
Digital Artefact
Alder, E. H. G. Wells and the Natural World. [Blog]

Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory (2017)
Journal Article
Soto-Morettini, D. (2017). Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory. Connection Science, 29(1), 64-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2016.1271398

In two separate papers, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Robotics researcher Guy Hoffman takes as a starting point that actors have been in the business of reverse engineering human behaviour for centuries. In this paper, I follow the similar trajectorie... Read More about Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory.

David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A., & Durkin, R. (2017). David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

On David Bowie's Blackstar as embodying aspects of late style, as discussed by Theodor Adorno and Edward Said.

https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2017). The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it. https://theconversation.com/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-were-living-in-it-70726

Welcome to a world where fake news stories are used to manipulate public opinion. Dissent is no longer tolerated and all your communications are monitored; the economy is not functioning and reality TV is used to distract you from harsher realities.... Read More about The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it.

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life" (2016)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2016). Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life". In J. McDonagh, & J. Bristow (Eds.), Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (63-84). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life".

Book Review of "Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing - Then and Now", ed. by Frauke Reitmeier and Kirsten Sandrock. (2016)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2016). Book Review of "Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing - Then and Now", ed. by Frauke Reitmeier and Kirsten Sandrock. Scottish Literary Review, 8(2), 176-178

No abstract available.

Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.