ARPF - Degesis

No. 9 Spring 2006

Editor Nickianne Moody

Two Pirates (on the) Account: The Journals of William Dampier and George Shelvocke
Elissa De Falco

Transatlantic Sketches: Depictions of the Sea Crossings by Dickens and James
Joanne Knowles

Practically Unsinkable - The Boyage of the R. M. S. Titanic throughout Twentieth Century Film
Jan Tilman Schwab

How Did This Come To Be In Stewardess Scheheraxade's Sea-Chest of 'Memories'? Exploring the Exceptionalised and Auratic Sea Through Inter-War Seawoman's Oral Testimonies
Joe Stanley

1805 and All That: Defining the Naval War Film
Jonathan Rayner

Obedience, Authority and Strategies of Resistance in the Cinematic Bounty
Graham Benton

Sailing to the edge of the World
Eve Smith

Speech Patterns: Pincher Martin and Open Water Consume Us
Nick Parker

"Not All Treasure is Silver and Gold Mate": The Enduring Popularity of the Pirate Narratuves
Annie Gosling

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No. 1 Winter 1997

Editor Nickianne Moody

The Appeal of Reading: the Jerome Illustration in Wynkyn de Worde's VitaePatrum
Sue Ellen Holbrook

"A True Picture of Old English Manners": Scott's Ivanhoe and English Nationalism
Anthony Lake

Postmodern Gothic: The Lost Brides of Frankenstein and the Dark Taste of Fear
Lauren M.E. Goodlad

Bouzouki or Pop Music?: Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical
Lydia Papadimitriou

The Female Clown as the New Feminist Masquerade?: or Whose Party is it Anyway?
Anna Birch

Interview with Sheila Holland (Charlotte Lamb)

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No. 8 Winter 2004 Chicklit Editor Nickianne Moody High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties Shop Boys and Girls!: Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit ‘Kiss My Tiara’ : Chicklit and Female Empowerment Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillenial Constructions of Male “Other” in Chicklit novels

Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections Bridget Jones’s Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-Market Popular Romance & Feminism Empathy and Irony In The Soundtrack to Chicklit Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls? Click here to request a copy of this journal

No. 7 Summer 2004

Editor Michelle Bernard

Victorian Horror Narratives: Troping Improper Femininity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret

The Horror of Existence: Spectres and Potentially in the Writing of Henry James

M.R. James's Gothic Revival

'Read it in the Spirit of Breaking the Rules': African-American and Afro-Caribbean Wonen's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique

All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives

Readers as Cyborgs: Constructing Reading Experiences in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter.

Family Butcher

Nightmarried
Silence Violence

Another Girl Another Planet: A Reading of Ripley as Cyborgian Trickster

Rape and the Vampire: From Myth to Porn

"This is where you get off": The Problem of Ambivalence in Early Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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		No. 6 Spring 2000 Parenthood Gothic Families: Criminal Parenting in the Work of Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. The Family’s Value: The Parent and Child in Point Horror. Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romance. ‘So calm, so pure, so beautiful in death …’ The Representation of Maternal Death in Nineteenth Century Literature. The Isolated Teenager Convention in Point Horror.

‘Only a story’? It’s more than that, …’: Race, Eugenics and Birth Control in Popular Romance between the Wars. Popular Culture, the Media and the Literary Canon: The case of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Click here to request a copy of this journal


No. 5 Winter 1999 Editorial: Empirical or Empiricist? Andy Ruddock The 'common sense' of Cultural Studies: Qualitative Audience Research and the Role of Theory in(-) determining method Matthew Hills Methodology as Lived Experience: Rhizomatic Ethnography in Hawai'i Fay Yokomizo Akindes In Search of the Radio Audience Sara O'Sullivan

Reappraising Ethnography in South African Television Reception Studies Dorothy Roome 'Reality is a Dangerous Concept': Accounts of Appreciation Amongst an Online Fan Community Una McCormack Click here to request a copy of this journal


		No. 4 Summer 1999 Editorial: Adventures, Mysteries and Romance Deborah Philips David Storey's and Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life: Reflections on the Aetheticization of the Sporting Body Alan Tomlinson From 'Motionless Bodies' to Acting Moral Subjects: Tom Brown, a Transformative Narrative for the Production of Manliness Garry Whannel What a Man's Gotta Do: Empirical Masculinity in H. Rider Haggard's Victorian Africa Liz Hedgecock

A New Man Is Born? The New Hero in Action Adventure and Wilbur Smith's The Seventh Scroll Isabel Santaulária Anarchic Spaces in Sword and Sorcery Fiction Maureen Moran 'Dangerous Undesirables': Chesterton, Wallace, Conrad and the 1905 Aliens Act Mary Hammond Interview with Teresa Benison Rose Atfield Distinction and Integration: Bourdieu and Popular Fiction George Paizis Click here to request a copy of this journal


No. 3 Winter 1998 Editor Nickianne Moody Emotions, Memories and Romance Readers: A Case Study of Laila Hietamies and her Fans Maria Linko Towards a Better Soundscape Miguel Mera Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the Conspiracy Virus in the X-Files Lynn Messina & Eleanor O'Rangers Symbolic Geographies in Feminine Romance: Why Manderly Has to Burn Susan Purdie

Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Horror Writing Gina Wisker The Women Behind the Mask: Unveiling Female Power in Late Victorian and Early Twentieth Century Crime Fiction Chris Willis Click here to request a copy of this journal


		No. 2 Summer 1998 Editor Nicola King Don Juan the Dyke: Perversity and/or Pleasure Allegra Madgwick Agents of the State?: Violent Women in Popular Culture Rosie White States of Emergency: Love, Fiction and History in André Brink's States of Emergency Amir Nojoumian Metonymic Traces of Narrative's Desire in Post-Catastrophic Fiction Mick Burton

Un)Popular Postmodernism: Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World John McLeod The Seductions of Travel: Problematics and Possibilities in Two Post-Colonial Women's Texts Cath Stowers Active Netizens: Television, Realism and the ER Website Andy Ruddock Books and the Bookseller James Nicholls Click here to request a copy of this journal


No. 1 Winter 1997 Editor Nickianne Moody The Appeal of Reading: the Jerome Illustration in Wynkyn de Worde's VitaePatrum Sue Ellen Holbrook "A True Picture of Old English Manners": Scott's Ivanhoe and English Nationalism Anthony Lake Postmodern Gothic: The Lost Brides of Frankenstein and the Dark Taste of Fear Lauren M.E. Goodlad Bouzouki or Pop Music?: Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical Lydia Papadimitriou

The Female Clown as the New Feminist Masquerade?: or Whose Party is it Anyway? Anna Birch Interview with Sheila Holland (Charlotte Lamb) Click here to request a copy of this journal

No. 9 Spring 2006

Editor Nickianne Moody

No. 1 Winter 1997

Editor Nickianne Moody

No. 8 Winter 2004

Editor Nickianne Moody

No. 7 Summer 2004

Editor Michelle Bernard

No. 6 Spring 2000

Parenthood

No. 5 Winter 1999

Editorial: Empirical or Empiricist? Andy Ruddock

No. 4 Summer 1999

Editorial: Adventures, Mysteries and Romance Deborah Philips

No. 3 Winter 1998

Editor Nickianne Moody

No. 2 Summer 1998

Editor Nicola King

No. 1 Winter 1997

Editor Nickianne Moody

Editorial: Empirical or Empiricist?
Andy Ruddock

Editorial: Adventures, Mysteries and Romance
Deborah Philips