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"Monstrous and indefensible"? Newspaper accounts of sexual assaults on children in nineteenth-century England and Wales
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Popular crime reportage of sexual violence has a long history in England. Despite the fact that from the 1830s onwards newspapers and periodicals – and sometimes even law reports – were increasingly liable to skim over the ...
A Philosophy of the Essay : Scepticism, Experience, and Style
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018-12-27)
Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined ...
Conversational Perversion, Implicature and Sham Cancelling in Othello
(Routledge, 2018-10-26)
Othello demonstrates what we call ‘conversational perversions’. This is a technical term which we introduce to identify conversational behaviours which are designed to block the possibility of mutual understanding that ...
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema : Beyond Mere Illusions
(Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015)
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstädt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that has been part of ...
Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema : Virtual Worlds and Ethical Problems
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-09)
Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema addresses questions about the connections between body and soul, virtuality, and the ways in which we engage with spirituality in the digital age. The ...
Making Italian espresso, making espresso Italian
(2010)
Espresso coffee has become synonymous with Italy, as have those beverages which employ this as a base such as cappuccino and caffè latte. This article examines the processes by which espresso became “Italian” over the ...
Students are human beings (discuss)
(2008)
This article argues that the following seven thoughts are absent from most formal reflections on teaching : 1. We do not teach in an ideological vacuum; 2. We are not here to give students what they want, but rather what ...