English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions

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    • Biologisms on the left and the right 

      Richardson, A (Routledge, 15 August 2022)
      Victorian Britain saw the rise of biologism, the practice of attributing biological cause to that which is explicable either wholly or in part by environment. Its most extreme expression was eugenics, first disseminated ...

    • The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner': Psychosis and a (non)sense of time. 

      Flexer, MJ (SAGE Publications, 7 May 2020)
      This paper reads Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time as stories of deictic temporal crises. It critically examines the texts, exploring their representations of mental time travel (MTT), ...

    • Having a moment: the revolutionary semiotic of COVID-19 

      Flexer, MJ (F1000 Research, 10 June 2020)
      The time of COVID-19 represents a distinct, but currently underdefined and under-theorised, temporal moment. Using semiotic methods, this paper examines how the mechanical actions of the virus, through becoming social, ...

    • If p 0, then 1: The impossibility of thinking out cases 

      Flexer, MJ (SAGE Publications, 3 September 2020)
      Forrester’s proposed seventh style of reasoning – thinking in cases – functions as an analogous, dyadic relationship that, whilst indebted philosophically to the logical reasoning and semiotics of Charles Peirce, is prone ...

    • Investigating waiting: Interdisciplinary thoughts on researching elongated temporalities in healthcare settings 

      Anucha, K; Baraitser, L; Davies, S; et al. (Routledge, 19 January 2021)
      Researching “waiting” necessitates practices of attunement to multiple coexisting temporalities and careful processes for handling and holding the temporal material produced by these practices. In this chapter, we share ...