Journal Contents

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Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2013): Futures

Articles

• Ying-hsiu Lu, " Malory’s Lancelot: Homosocial and Heterosexual Discourses in the Knightly Ideal of Masculinity"
• Hong Cai, "A Comparative Study of Gong’an dialect: An Introduction"
• Eduardo Moyà Antón, "British Literary Diaspora in the Mediterranean: The (Re)Creation of the ‘Sunny South’"
• Gabriela Garcéz Pereira, "Iberianism: José Saramago’s search for his own ‘Golden Fleece’ upon an allegorical ‘Stone Raft’"
• Will Gatherer, "Ethnicity, language, and finding ‘the other’ in Ma Yuan’s Fabrication (Xugou 虚构)"
• Hui-Chen Lee, "Translation and the invention of writing: The case of Southern Min alphabet in Taiwan"
• David Braden, "Writing Is Thinking, And Learning To Think Need Not Be Boring: Creative Writing In EFL"
• Katalin Gaal, "Iconic Transformations in Dostoevsky’s Post-Siberian Works"
• Shirlita Espinosa, "Filipino Diaspora in Australia and the “Language Question”"
• Kavita Ramakrishnan, "City Futures: Aspirations and Urban Imaginaries in Delhi"
• Kevin Milburn, "Futurism and Musical Meaning in Synthesized Landscapes"
• Rachel Gordon, "The Quality of Being Interested (or Interesting) in Research"
• Elizabeth Richardson, "Using Performance in Human Geography: Conditions and Possibilities"

Volume 4, Issue 1 (August 2010): Afterlives

Articles

• Naomi Banks, "Afterlives: An Interview with Stephen Regan"
• Masum A. Patwary, "Domes and the Dead: An Example of Extreme Fatalism among Mortuary Workers in Bangladesh"
• Emily Ridge, "'SO': Tracing Georges Perec in the Work of Sophie Calle"
• Alice Bennett, "You’re Dead: Dying, Living and Narrating in the Second Person"
• Eleanor Chatburn, "'Echo-prolonging poet!': Translation, Adaptation and Afterlives in the Poetry of Derek Mahon"
• Naomi Banks, "'Adequate to our Predicament?': In Search of a Northern Irish Political Elegy"
• Douglas J. Davies, "Lifestyles and Death-Styles: Reflections on Contemporary Afterlife Beliefs"

Review Essay

• Gerald Aiken, review of Robin Mackay, ed., Collapse Vol. VI: Geo/philosophy

Book Reviews

• Catherine Johnman, review of Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J Collier, eds., Biosecurity Interventions
• Emily Ridge, review of Daniel Miller, The Comfort of Things

Volume 3, Issue 2 (December 2009): Beyond the Human

Articles

• Adam Stock, "The Organic and the Mechanical: Images of Man, the State and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
• Stuart Rochester, "The Eschatological Anthrōpos in Mark's Gospel"
• Itsuki Kitani, "Sensibility and Shelley's Organic System of Nature in 'The Sensitive Plant'"
• David McWilliam, "To Speak Without Being Heard: The Ethics of Ownership Surrounding the Creation of Cloned Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
• Caroline Havercourt, "The Consciousness Revolution: A battle between darkness and light at the end of the (Ego) Tunnel?"

Book Reviews

• Alistair Brown, review of Tim M. Berra, Charles Darwin: The Concise Examination of an Extraordinary Man
• Jagruti Dave, review of Glen Mazis, Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries
• Maria Carolina Lucato, review of Marcus Düwell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter & Dietmar Mieth, eds.,The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence
• Eduardo Neve-Jimenez, review of Emily Shuckburgh, ed., Survival: Survival of the Human Race
• Jelena Novak, review of Eric Salzman & Thomas Desi, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
• William Viney, review of Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader

Volume 3, Issue 1 (June 2009): Being Human

Articles

• Katherine Heavey, “‘We Poor Helpless Women’: Humanising Medea, 1648-1761”
• Rachel Hoyes, “‘Shred ends from remembered stars’: Hart Crane’s Search for Self and Being as a Romantic Modernist” 
• David W. Hill, “Ultrasound and the Face of the Other: A Levinasian Account of the Mother-Foetus Conflict”
• Jan-Hendrik Grotevent, “Human Geography: Interrelations of the Human Being with the Three-Dimensional Environment”

Book Reviews

• Heather Yeung, review of Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
•  Rachel Douglas-Jones, review of João Biehl, Will To Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival
• David W. Hill, review of Adriana Cavarero, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence
• Duncan Proctor, review of Thom Brooks ed., The Global Justice Reader
• Paulina Aroch Fugellie, review of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Volume 2, Issue 1 (October 2008): Modelling

Articles

• Joanna Baines: "A Model Patient: Uses and Abuses of History in the Cancer Patient Literature."
• David Patrick: "Modelling Genocide Can Humanity’s Greatest Scourge be Predicted?"
• Katherine Heavey: "A 'fressh and lusty qwene': Remodelling Helen of Troy in the Middle Ages."

Review Essays

• Alistair Brown: "Pitchforks at the Library Doors? Literary Studies in the Digital Age," a review essay on Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age by Jeff Gomez, A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schriebman.

Reviews

• Claire Graham: Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, ed. Jason T. Eberl.

Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 2007): Legacies of Darwin

Articles

• James Stark: "Fighting the Good Fight? The Scientific Community’s Responses to Anti-Evolutionism"
• Marc Botha: "Several Futures of Silence: A Conversation with Stuart Sim on Noise and Silence"

Reviews

• Stuart Foyle: Dawkin's God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life, by Alister McGrath
• Ian James Kidd: Doubting Darwin? Creationist Designs on Evolution, by Sahotra Sarkar
• Elizabeth Hannon: Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioural, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb
• Maebh Long: Creators in Mathematics: The Irish Connection
• Marc Botha:The Future of the Image, by Jacques Rancière