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Pit and Pendulum Review
No full textThis piece of writing reviews the bar Pit and Pendulum while discussing the relevance of its title in regard to Edgar Allan Poe\u27s short horror story. It analyses the setting of the establishment, the quality of food and drink served and the overall atmosphere. 
Functionalisation or Classification? Public Perceptions on Sodomites in The Old Bailey Proceedings
Get PDFThrough a critical discourse analysis, this study explores how homosexual men were viewed in the eighteenth century through the medium of the Old Bailey Proceedings online corpus. This study begins by providing the context of historical gay theory before analysing the character witness testimonies in trials for sodomy. This study largely looks at how the defendants are described by those who are selected to defend them, and as such mainly focusses on the inferences that can be made on their views of sodomites from their positive descriptions of defendants. The focus of this study is the ‘predication strategies’ (Reisigl & Wodak, 2001) used to describe sodomites as drunk, immoral, sex-crazed and misogynist. It was found that sodomites were at times viewed as people who partake in a behaviour, in a process of ‘functionalisation’, and at other times as being part of a wider community, in a process of ‘classification’ (van Leeuwen, 1996)
The effect of bereavement on the adolescent psyche in J.D. Salinger\u27s The Catcher in the Rye
Get PDFThis article examines the problematic coming of age theme present in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. It explores the novel’s young and troubled protagonist Holden Caulfield’s resistance to the process of maturity, due to his inability to recover from the death of his younger brother, Allie. This pain translates into Holden’s intense subscription to idealistic illusions, most prominently his desire to become the saviour figure ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, in which he saves children from entering into adulthood. Holden’s distressing objection to the process of maturing is due to the guilt he harbours, as he believes he should have saved Allie from his illness, in his role as the older brother. His inability to let go of his past trauma and move towards a more resilient future alienates him from the world and ultimately leads to his emotional breakdown, of which the novel chronicles. Therefore, the psychological effects of bereavement on Holden’s adolescent mind and his coming of age journey can be scrutinised closely
Book Review: Beauty is pain: Stetz’s essay ‘Fabricating Girls: Clothes and Coming-of-Age Fiction by Women of Color’
No full textThis review examines the points laid out by Margaret D. Stetz on how the clothing of young girls is written into coming-of-age fiction and how this helps to illustrate a character’s identity.
The essay is examined in relation to the novel The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu to see if any of the points raised by Stetz could be identified in Nzelu’s debut novel, such as Stetz’s in-depth analysis of clothing as way of connecting with your past and Nzelu’s protagonist Nenna’s longing for a connection to her Igbo-Nigerian heritage.
I focused on the clarity of Stetz’s essay and on how well the issues she raises can be used in examining a coming-of-age novel, and more specifically how it relates to the adolescence of young women of colour
‘All the worlds a stage’: A week of Shakespeare at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal
Get PDFA review of the Royal Shakespeare Company\u27s performances of Measure for Measure, As You Like it and the Taming of the Shrew at Nottingham\u27s Theatre Royal
Introduction to Fitness Section
No full textShort description of what\u27s to come in the fitness section. 
Exploring repression of racial identity in The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney: biracial children in lone-parent families
Get PDFThe bildungsroman novel The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu identifies Nnenna’s unstable identity due to several factors such as her not knowing the Igbo language and her biracialism which worsens the tensions with her mother, Joanie. She resolves this by exploring Nigerian culture, such as learning Igbo and Nigerian cuisine. Her father feels alienated because he was brought up in Nigeria which still held colonialist beliefs about England being superior. Her mother suffers from oppression in being a young white single mother and struggles to fit in. Nnenna slowly embraces her racial identity and becomes more confident in herself
The Editor\u27s Pick: Books on Mental Health
No full textThis month our editors sat down and compiled our favourite books for each section of the magazine! Here’s the mental health edit.
 
Gymtimidation: Women lifting weights and how to stamp out the stigma
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