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The middle years of Martin Amis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This essay was commissioned by Rod Mengham and Philip Tew for their volume British Fiction Today (London and New York: Continuum, 2006). Essays for this volume were specifically requested to focus on writers’ work since 1990.
Brooker, Joseph
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Radiation‐Crosslinked PCL–TMPTA Composites via 3D Printing: Structure–Property Relationships and Shape Memory Performance

open access: yesPolymer Engineering &Science, EarlyView.
3D printed shape memory PCL‐TMPTA through high energy gamma radiation modification. ABSTRACT Programmable materials that can reversibly transform between distinct shapes represent a promising technology for applications spanning biomedicine, robotics, and aerospace engineering. Although shape memory polymers offer promising stimuli‐responsive behavior,
Khushboo Varshney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literary Engagement with the (Traumatic) Past

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2015
Review of History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction by Beata Piątek (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014)
Šárka Bubíková
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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter outlines the scope of the book, discusses Rose Macaulay's life and writing, and summarises the other chapters in the book, making connections to their coherence as a unified argument that Macaulay was a writer of modernity in British ...
Macdonald, Kate
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Locating experience in time and place: a look at young adult fiction and spiritual intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Spiritual intelligence describes self-awareness and intuition, with the development of creative thinking, compassion, and connectedness with others. Many researchers point to an awakening and development of spiritual intelligence that is enhanced through
Westenberg, L
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ambivalent gentleman-thieves and ‘the Dutch Conan Doyle’: British-based detective fiction in the Netherlands at the start of the twentieth century

open access: yesBelphégor, 2017
This article explores the content and reception of two kinds of British-based detective fiction that were widely-read in the Netherlands at the start of the twentieth century: serialized international pulp fiction (the Lord Lister series) on the one hand,
Alex Rutten
doaj   +1 more source

The Victorian and the Historical in Post-Victorian Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Bryk, Marta
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“Prefer not, eh?”: Re-Scribing the Lives of the Great War Poets in Contemporary British Historical Fiction

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2018
Although the First World War has become history by now, the memory of the war continues to be repeatedly fictionalised: retrospectively inspired narratives are often regarded as more genuine and far-reaching than historical or documentary accounts in ...
Pividori, María Cristina
doaj   +1 more source

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