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Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011] (2011)
Other
Bishop, D. (2011). Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011]. Sweden

A comic written for publisher Egmont, illustrated by artist Cesar Spadari. Originally published in Swedish, it was subsequently reprinted in English by Frew Comics in Australia.

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.

Antigone: Raw Female (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, August). Antigone: Raw Female. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, York St John University

Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2011, August). Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011

Many aspects of the ocean deep remain obscure to modern science and exploration, and in literature it has always been an area of mystery, sometimes of horror. Foucault’s characterisation of the ship as heterotopia, ‘a floating piece of space, a place... Read More about Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean..

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2011, August). Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011

The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once every two years. This year, the conference is entitled ‘Gothic Limits’ and con... Read More about Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman..

What would have been: nostalgia, fantasy and the past of the future. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, July). What would have been: nostalgia, fantasy and the past of the future. Paper presented at 3rd Annual Conference of the Apartheid Archive Project, Narratives, Nostalgia and Nationhood, Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg

‘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

Scots beneath the Banyan Tree: stories from Bengal. (2010)
Book
Fraser, B., & Chitrakar, G. (2010). Scots beneath the Banyan Tree: stories from Bengal. Luath Press

A collaborative project with a folk artist's scrolls telling the stories of Scots who have become iconic figures in Bengal. Each scroll is accompanied by the story in prose and the lyrics translated by the author.

Children's Reading Habits. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2010, September). Children's Reading Habits. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Oxford, UK

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