Simon J James
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon J James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon J |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital seriality and narrative branching
This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and how it influences the success and the reach of the show. We draw attention to how the cross-media format of Serial enables listeners to participate in the narrative, to argue that storytelling to a digitally networked audience relies on both old…
Daily bread
While in the Sherlock Holmes canon Watson is married twice (and once widowed), the domestic scenario most frequently staged by the stories sees Holmes and Watson sharing 221b Baker Street, attended by their housekeeper Mrs Hudson. Holmes himself nostalgically looks back to this ménage when he reunites with Watson after seeming to return from the dead at the beginning of The Return of Sherlock Holmes: ‘This is indeed like the old days,’ adding ‘We…
A body undressed for text
George Du Maurier's best-selling novel, Trilby (1894), is as important because of its defiance of social and cultural norms as it is for its apparent compliance with them. Trilby is a fiction that, like its eponymous heroine, attempts to negotiate the perilously fine line between the highbrow and the lowbrow, or to put it another way, between fine art and political commentary on one side, and pornography and sensationalism on the other. This arti…
Marie Corelli and the Value of Literary Self-Consciouness
Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan (1895) presents a paradoxical test case for \nthe practice of academic literary criticism. The best-selling work of fiction of the nineteenth \ncentury, the book was demeaned by Victorian critics and has been long ignored by criticism \nsince. In spite of Corelli’s recent mini-revival, the formally self-conscious properties of this \nwork deserve further examination: the text insistently foregrounds the act of…
Technology and Utopia
Book Review| January 01 2009 Technology and Utopia Technology and Utopia. Segal, Howard P. Simon J. James Simon J. James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (1): 173–175. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719934 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Simon J. James; Technology and Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (1): 173–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2071993…
Engendering change in our understanding of the structure of Roman military communities
One of the most important developments in the study of the northern frontier provinces in recent years has been growing realization of the complexity of the populations living within, as well as around, imperial Roman military bases. It is clear that, even within the walls, such bases were not the exclusive preserve of soldiers, or even males. (It has been especially delicious to see the outraged reaction of some conservative practitioners of Lim…
Ancient Rome
The Roman galley slave
Of the repertoire of stereotypical images representing the Roman world in Western popular historical discourse, that of the chained galley slave stands out, since it is demonstrably false: the Roman empire knew no such practice. Since the notion must therefore have a post-classical origin, it may be possible to trace its roots and the means of its establishment in contemporary culture. It is argued that the motif was constructed by projecting ont…
Engendering change in our understanding of the structure of Roman military communities
One of the most important developments in the study of the northern frontier provinces in recent years has been growing realization of the complexity of the populations living within, as well as around, imperial Roman military bases. It is clear that, even within the walls, such bases were not the exclusive preserve of soldiers, or even males. (It has been especially delicious to see the outraged reaction of some conservative practitioners of Lim…
Digital seriality and narrative branching
This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and how it influences the success and the reach of the show. We draw attention to how the cross-media format of Serial enables listeners to participate in the narrative, to argue that storytelling to a digitally networked audience relies on both old…
Marie Corelli and the Value of Literary Self-Consciouness
Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan (1895) presents a paradoxical test case for \nthe practice of academic literary criticism. The best-selling work of fiction of the nineteenth \ncentury, the book was demeaned by Victorian critics and has been long ignored by criticism \nsince. In spite of Corelli’s recent mini-revival, the formally self-conscious properties of this \nwork deserve further examination: the text insistently foregrounds the act of…
The Roman galley slave
Of the repertoire of stereotypical images representing the Roman world in Western popular historical discourse, that of the chained galley slave stands out, since it is demonstrably false: the Roman empire knew no such practice. Since the notion must therefore have a post-classical origin, it may be possible to trace its roots and the means of its establishment in contemporary culture. It is argued that the motif was constructed by projecting ont…
Ancient Rome
Engendering change in our understanding of the structure of Roman military communities
One of the most important developments in the study of the northern frontier provinces in recent years has been growing realization of the complexity of the populations living within, as well as around, imperial Roman military bases. It is clear that, even within the walls, such bases were not the exclusive preserve of soldiers, or even males. (It has been especially delicious to see the outraged reaction of some conservative practitioners of Lim…
Technology and Utopia
Book Review| January 01 2009 Technology and Utopia Technology and Utopia. Segal, Howard P. Simon J. James Simon J. James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (1): 173–175. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719934 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Simon J. James; Technology and Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (1): 173–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2071993…
Marie Corelli and the Value of Literary Self-Consciouness
Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan (1895) presents a paradoxical test case for \nthe practice of academic literary criticism. The best-selling work of fiction of the nineteenth \ncentury, the book was demeaned by Victorian critics and has been long ignored by criticism \nsince. In spite of Corelli’s recent mini-revival, the formally self-conscious properties of this \nwork deserve further examination: the text insistently foregrounds the act of…
A body undressed for text
George Du Maurier's best-selling novel, Trilby (1894), is as important because of its defiance of social and cultural norms as it is for its apparent compliance with them. Trilby is a fiction that, like its eponymous heroine, attempts to negotiate the perilously fine line between the highbrow and the lowbrow, or to put it another way, between fine art and political commentary on one side, and pornography and sensationalism on the other. This arti…
Daily bread
While in the Sherlock Holmes canon Watson is married twice (and once widowed), the domestic scenario most frequently staged by the stories sees Holmes and Watson sharing 221b Baker Street, attended by their housekeeper Mrs Hudson. Holmes himself nostalgically looks back to this ménage when he reunites with Watson after seeming to return from the dead at the beginning of The Return of Sherlock Holmes: ‘This is indeed like the old days,’ adding ‘We…
Digital seriality and narrative branching
This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and how it influences the success and the reach of the show. We draw attention to how the cross-media format of Serial enables listeners to participate in the narrative, to argue that storytelling to a digitally networked audience relies on both old…
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