Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory
Book Chapter
Soto-Morettini, D. (2018)
Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory. In E. Bryon, J. M. Bishop, D. McLaughlin, & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Embodied Cognition, Acting and Performance. Routledge
In two separate papers, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Robotics researcher Guy Hoffman takes as a starting point that actors have been in the business of reverse engineering hum...
Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans
Book Chapter
Bouet, E. (2018)
Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans. In K. Wright (Ed.), Disgust and Desire: The Paradox of the Monster (111-141). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150_007
No abstract available.
Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air"
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017)
Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air". In A. Frayn (Ed.), The War of the Worlds and The War in the AirWordsworth Editions
Published a decade apart and spanning the turn of the twentieth century, The War of the Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1908) are brought together in one volume for the ...
Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2017)
Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981). Studies in Scottish literature, 43(2),
Discusses the healthy overlap in the recent BBC Scotland poll on Scotland's Favourite Novel between popular appeal and critical recognition; judges Gray's Lanark as "Scotland'...
Shadowplay
Book
Lam, L. (2017)
Shadowplay. (1). London, UK: Pan MacMillan
Micah Grey almost died when he fled the circus with Drystan - now he and the ex-clown seek to outrun disaster. Drystan persuades his old friend Jasper Maske, a once-renowned m...
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2017, December)
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival. Paper presented at European Revivals Conference V - Cultural Mythologies around 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
This paper will argue that the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century was first-and-foremost a Symbolist movement. Focusing on the writing, thought and ...
Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017)
Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic. Gothic Studies, 19(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.7227/gs.0025
No abstract available.
Introduction
Book Chapter
Fraser, B., & Riach, A. (2017)
Introduction. In Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry (17-27). Edinburgh: Luath Press
Thaali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry
Book
Fraser, B. & Riach, A. (Eds.)
(2017). Thaali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry. ISBN 978-1912147090
Thali Katori brings together two words that celebrate difference, acknowledge the need for the sensitive appreciation of difference, the virtues of complementarity and the nou...
(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017)
(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction. Textual Practice, 31(6), 1083-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1358686
Early twentieth century weird tales occupy an important place in the development of genre fictions. Among the innovations they contribute are new forms of monsters, diverging ...