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While Not Having the Last Word … (2023)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). While Not Having the Last Word …. In C. Owens (Ed.), Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (166-179). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003450795-8

This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics th... Read More about While Not Having the Last Word ….

Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture (2019)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2019). Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture. In D. Hook, C. Neill, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' (1-5). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429294310-1

In comparison to Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre that of course exists in the collected form of the Standard Edition, Jacques Lacan’s written work exists in a far more scattered and diffuse state. Prior to the eventual 15 November 1966 publication date of the... Read More about Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture.

Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930) (2023)
Digital Artefact
Frayn, A. (2023). Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930). [Podcast]

One of many books about the First World War on the censor’s blacklist, this one claims to offer a new, fresh perspective about the British army. But how much truth can a memoir written by ‘anonymous’ tell? With Dr Andrew Frayn.

'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2022, October). 'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime. Paper presented at Gardens in the Gorse: Rural Britain’s Modernist Cultures (Northern Modernism Seminar), Newcastle

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for remote areas to remain ‘living and organic communit[ies]’ (Greater Lakeland) because of his proximity, in his lifetime home of Millom, in the ind... Read More about 'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime.

Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, November). Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30. Presented at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series, Northumbria University

Research talk (50 min) at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series (online).

Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, November). Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry. Presented at English research seminar, University of Edinburgh

A poet whose first editor at Faber & Faber was T.S. Eliot, Norman Nicholson (1914-87) lived his whole life in Millom, an ironworks town in the south-west of Cumbria, away from but within sight of the major fells of the Lake District. Nicholson’s fam... Read More about Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry.

Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War (2016)
Digital Artefact
Frayn, A. (2016). Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War. [Podcast]

A talk to the department of English at University College Dublin, in the Wartime Attachments series, organised by Dr Barry Shiels. The series was funded by the Irish Research Council. D. H. Lawrence described his poetry collection 'Bay', publishe... Read More about Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War.

Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, July). Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction. Paper presented at Alternate Spaces of the Great War, Plymouth University

Invited talk to the AHRC-funded network Alternate Spaces of the Great War. This paper engages with the spaces of the Great War, particularly the Western Front, as spaces of modernity. The starting point is a quotation from Richard Aldington’s Dea... Read More about Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction.