Sarah Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 298986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6150-6860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Go on, get out, you've got this”
This qualitative study evaluated a co-designed nature conservation intervention for older adults living in a retirement village. It explored if and how the intervention could support autonomous motivation to engage with nature. Participants were invited to “spot, count and record things in nature” for 6 weeks, tailoring (i.e., personalising) this nature activity to their motivations, needs and abilities, and using resources provided (e.g., logboo…
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
The six-volume set A Cultural History of Fairy Tales seeks to provide a transnational history of the forms of the fairy tale and their adaptations from 500 BCE to the present. Although there are occasional gaps in its coverage of world literature, the set as a whole should prove invaluable to current and future fairy-tale scholars. Each volume could serve as an excellent teaching tool for courses on specific histories of the fairy tale or in a br…
Melting in the Daylight
The Asrai is a nocturnal fairy popularly attributed to British folklore, most memorable for the fact that any exposure to sunlight will cause it to melt into water. Rather than developing from oral folk tradition, like most legendary creatures, the Asrai may have originated and evolved through literary sources, beginning with the poetry of the Scottish author Robert Buchanan in the 1870s. Since appearing in a folklore account of uncertain provena…
Melusine and the Starbucks' Siren
Melusine, the snake- or fish-tailed heroine of a medieval legend, has been labelled in modern sources as the mermaid in the Starbucks' coffee chain logo and has become a generic name for two-tailed mermaids. However, it is unclear how the traditionally one-tailed Melusine became linked to this image. Tracing the source of the Starbucks' logo leads to an obscure end, but similar double-tailed mermaids abound in art and heraldry. Melusine entered h…
The Social Life of Private Notes
Simon Reader's Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style , as I discuss below, pushes us to rethink how we understand notes in the nineteenth century and in our own. I will begin with the contemporary implications of Reader's argument by pairing it with Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study . Both books foreground aspects of the research and writing life that have always support…
Why Always Dorothea? The Rhetorical Question in Canon and Archive
This chapter considers the changing but enduring fortunes of didacticism across the Victorian period, from Romanticism before it to Modernism after it; it does so by investigating the function of the rhetorical question as it is shaped by scenes of correction in didactic fiction. The chapter shows that those scenes of correction exemplified in pre-Victorian novels are recast satirically by Dickens and Brontë, among others, while the tradition of …
The nexus between air pollution, green infrastructure and human health
Cities are constantly evolving and so are the living conditions within and between them. Rapid urbanization and the ever-growing need for housing have turned large areas of many cities into concrete landscapes that lack greenery. Green infrastructure can support human health, provide socio-economic and environmental benefits, and bring color to an otherwise grey urban landscape. Sometimes, benefits come with downsides in relation to its impact on…
Literature
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Other people's data
Every project that uses numbers to make sense of literature seems to teach us again that in digital analysis we create more data than we can ever fully use and therefore understand. And yet, with each new project we produce more. In the Community Resource Guide to Digital Humanities Curation, Julia Flanders and Trevor Muñoz define research data as the "raw and abstracted material created as part of research processes and which may be used again a…
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Other people's data
Every project that uses numbers to make sense of literature seems to teach us again that in digital analysis we create more data than we can ever fully use and therefore understand. And yet, with each new project we produce more. In the Community Resource Guide to Digital Humanities Curation, Julia Flanders and Trevor Muñoz define research data as the "raw and abstracted material created as part of research processes and which may be used again a…
Literature
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The nexus between air pollution, green infrastructure and human health
Cities are constantly evolving and so are the living conditions within and between them. Rapid urbanization and the ever-growing need for housing have turned large areas of many cities into concrete landscapes that lack greenery. Green infrastructure can support human health, provide socio-economic and environmental benefits, and bring color to an otherwise grey urban landscape. Sometimes, benefits come with downsides in relation to its impact on…
Why Always Dorothea? The Rhetorical Question in Canon and Archive
This chapter considers the changing but enduring fortunes of didacticism across the Victorian period, from Romanticism before it to Modernism after it; it does so by investigating the function of the rhetorical question as it is shaped by scenes of correction in didactic fiction. The chapter shows that those scenes of correction exemplified in pre-Victorian novels are recast satirically by Dickens and Brontë, among others, while the tradition of …
The Social Life of Private Notes
Simon Reader's Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style , as I discuss below, pushes us to rethink how we understand notes in the nineteenth century and in our own. I will begin with the contemporary implications of Reader's argument by pairing it with Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study . Both books foreground aspects of the research and writing life that have always support…
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
The six-volume set A Cultural History of Fairy Tales seeks to provide a transnational history of the forms of the fairy tale and their adaptations from 500 BCE to the present. Although there are occasional gaps in its coverage of world literature, the set as a whole should prove invaluable to current and future fairy-tale scholars. Each volume could serve as an excellent teaching tool for courses on specific histories of the fairy tale or in a br…
Melting in the Daylight
The Asrai is a nocturnal fairy popularly attributed to British folklore, most memorable for the fact that any exposure to sunlight will cause it to melt into water. Rather than developing from oral folk tradition, like most legendary creatures, the Asrai may have originated and evolved through literary sources, beginning with the poetry of the Scottish author Robert Buchanan in the 1870s. Since appearing in a folklore account of uncertain provena…
Melusine and the Starbucks' Siren
Melusine, the snake- or fish-tailed heroine of a medieval legend, has been labelled in modern sources as the mermaid in the Starbucks' coffee chain logo and has become a generic name for two-tailed mermaids. However, it is unclear how the traditionally one-tailed Melusine became linked to this image. Tracing the source of the Starbucks' logo leads to an obscure end, but similar double-tailed mermaids abound in art and heraldry. Melusine entered h…
Go on, get out, you've got this”
This qualitative study evaluated a co-designed nature conservation intervention for older adults living in a retirement village. It explored if and how the intervention could support autonomous motivation to engage with nature. Participants were invited to “spot, count and record things in nature” for 6 weeks, tailoring (i.e., personalising) this nature activity to their motivations, needs and abilities, and using resources provided (e.g., logboo…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works)