STORRE

This thesis investigates representations of the dead and dying body in American gothic literature from 1917 to 1999, specifically the violence enacted upon it and its often-ignored physicality. It demonstrates how modern U.S. society uses such bodies to mediate social anxieties about death, including the treatment of the dead/dying body, the experience of death, and society's ability to 'manage' death and negotiate the acceptable level of closeness to or distance from the dead which is expect...

First paragraph: Dans ses deux derniers romans, Monénembo nous présente des histoires de femmes marginalisées en fuite. L’enchevêtrement complexe entre la liberté et la mobilité traverse les deux livres et sert à souligner la menace d’un mouvement contrarié pour ces femmes. L’esthétique de Monénembo apparaît dans son usage de rythme et de forme, surtout dans ses représentations de la fuite et de la roue. A travers une analyse de courts extraits d’évasion et de sensation ainsi qu’un regard sur...

Background: Good communication is consistently recognised as essential for effective complaint handling, while failures in communication correlate with risk of escalation. Nonetheless, communication in National Health Service complaint handling remains underexamined. Objectives: To examine complainants’ lived experience of the complaints journey through (1) microanalysis of their communication with National Health Service representatives; (2) their self-reported expectations and experiences t...

Recent years have seen an increase in scholarly attention paid to youth language practices in Africa, with studies examining a range of linguistic phenomena. A parallel development has seen the emergence of work studying morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu languages, with a view to better understanding structural variation in closely related languages or varieties. This special collection brings together those working in the fields of youth language practices and morphosyntactic variation...