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Robb Robinson, Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea: A Forgotten History?
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A Separate Peace? Reconsidering Post-conflict Military Occupations
Get PDFThis research note makes the case for further historical work comparing the military occupations of Japan and Iraq. Despite serious differences, a comparison of these two related events reveals long-term trends. These include Anglo-American strategic and economic thinking, questions of legitimacy in military occupations, how policy planning works, the problem of interagency rivalry in foreign policy making, and the limitations of advance planning
On Translating Verlaine’s Prose
Get PDFIt is probably safe to say that the French poet Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) is not known as a writer of prose. In fact, it may come as a surprise to learn that there is enough material extant for a Pléiade volume entitled Œuvres en prose complètes, edited by Jacques Borel and published in 1972. These writings span from 1867 to 1895 and are divided into the following sections: Œuvres d’imagination; Œuvres autobiographiques; Œuvres critiques; Œuvres polémiques; Voyages; an appendix containing a translation from Byron; the contents of Verlaine’s notebook; and some pieces written in English, including the enjoyable ‘My Visit to London’ (published in The Savoy, April 1896). Many of these pieces can be classified as travel writing or autobiographical sketches; there is also a fair number of critical articles, prefaces, and reviews, although Verlaine was not as prolific a reviewer as many of his contemporaries. The best-known pieces are Les Poètes maudits, Verlaine’s six short articles on different nineteenth-century poets, including himself. As for what we would today call creative writing, or short fiction, many pieces are brief character sketches of one or two pages; others can be categorized as short contes or longer nouvelles. Although some of these appeared during his lifetime, most were published for the first time in Œuvres posthumes (1903). What is striking is how conventional these texts often seem – usually narrated in either the first or third person and in the past tense, with setting, character, dialogue, and plot all present and correct. One might think perhaps of Guy de Maupassant as a touchstone. It would also be easy to believe that these works were by one of many writers who wrote for the myriad newspapers and journals at a time when print was the hegemonic mass medium.
 
Review: Michèle Mendelssohn, Making Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, 2018) & Matthew Sturgis, Oscar: A Life (Head of Zeus Ltd, 2018)
Get PDFIn ‘The Critic as Artist’ (1890; 1891), Oscar Wilde’s spokesperson Gilbert declares ‘Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.’ One book that bears out Gilbert’s claim is Lord Alfred Douglas’ Oscar Wilde and Myself (1914), but many later biographers have served Wilde more charitably, and none more so than Richard Ellmann, whose influential 1987 account concludes that Wilde was ‘so generous, so amusing, and so right’
A Frame That Bent, But Did Not Break: Understanding how change to the therapeutic frame can impact upon an established parent-infant psychotherapy and under-fives art psychotherapy service
Get PDFThe impact of change can feel both liberating and destructive. This paper discusses the impact of change within an experienced parent-infant psychotherapy and under-fives art psychotherapy organisation, referred to throughout as the ‘Service’. The change refers to the Service’s loss of an established working alliance with a professional network including a Centre Manager, a team of Health Visitors, Outreach Support Workers, Nursery Teachers and Administrative Assistants. The work alongside these allied professionals ended when their organisation went through significant structural changes. Key areas to be discussed will focus on the impact of change upon the Service’s organisational system, the therapeutic frame and the therapists’ and clients’ experiences