Water defined the landscapes of medieval East Anglia. Hitherto scholarly attention has focussed on the physical geography of the region, with landscape archaeology and excavations revealing sites of international importance and speaking to the potency and ubiquity of wa...

This article investigates the role of utopian and dystopian spaces in the construction of social realism in Bakita Byaktigato/The Rest is Personal (Pradipta Bhattacharya, 2013). The inherent contradiction between the implausible fictional construct of utopian and dystop...

This paper reports the results of four experiments that investigate how readers determine the perspective holder for free reports in narratives. Free reports can be interpreted as descriptions of someone’s perceptions or thoughts. I tested the effect of the following fa...

The künstlerroman is a genre with a long and celebrated past. From Bret Easton Ellis’ 'Lunar Park (2005)' to John Irving’s 'The World According to Garp (1978)' and Saul Bellow’s 'Humboldt’s Gift (1975)', the genre has occupied a prominent place in bestseller lists and a...

The accuracy and relevance of United States print news media has been called into question at increasing rates in the post-truth era. Conservatives, in particular, have long expressed concerns that mass and digital media censor conservative as well as Christian viewpoin...

An introduction to the ‘New Voices in Jewish-American Literature’ Special Collection, providing a summary of key themes and an overview of material contained within.

The debate that overtook Scottish society in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence featured the participation of Scottish artists, writers and literary critics in ways that stand in stark contrast to the utter cultural silence with which Brexit has ...

This article explores the causal links between the 1983 Channel 4 documentary 'Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts' and the feature film 'Pride' (2014), via 'All Out: Dancing in Dulais' (1986). It will be argued that 'Pride' — the story of miners’ support grou...

Digital media platforms have emerged as important socio-cultural sites that enable the engagement of historical and contemporary contestations around religion and identity against the background of ethnoreligious conflicts and social tensions in Nigeria. The post-electi...

In addition to providing pleasant and stimulating experiences, complex cultural collections can require significant amounts of cognitive work on the part of visitors. Whether collections are situated in physical spaces or presented via web-based interfaces, the sheer ri...