Brian Richardson

Biographic Data

ID3593796
NAMEBrian Richardson
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMERichardson
SIGNATURERICHARDSON B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0001-7613-0707
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT73
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The counternarratives of Ulysses

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEFrontiers of Narrative Studies2025

    James Joyce’s Ulysses contains numerous counternarratives – ideological, cultural, and literary – and it brilliantly embodies those oppositions in the construction of the narrative itself. Ulysses enacts counternarratives of the traditional heroic epic, the Victorian novel, and mimetic narrative in general. Joyce removes all supernatural and implausible elements in his version of the epic form, thereby deflating its pretension and at the same tim…

  • “In the Grip of King Kong”: Making Sense of Whistleblower Retaliation Experiences Through Metaphor

    Open AccessJoseph Mcglynn, Brian Richardson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2025

  • Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEPoetics Today2025References: 8

    Time loop narratives raise a number of interesting questions for narrative theory. There is the curious temporality of a work in which past, present, and future are rearranged. There is also the question of how such narratives progress, given that they are composed of repeated events that must be sequenced and developed, and provided with an ending that should satisfactorily conclude such works. The status of characters in these works also needs …

  • Misreadings, Self-Misprisions, and Fabricated Resolutions in Joyce’s “The Dead”

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEPartial Answers Journal of…2024

    Joyce’s “The Dead” contains a number of partial and misleading narratives related in an unexpected manner, and as such greatly rewards a narrative- centered analysis. Misinterpretation is general in this work; one might argue that the text is primarily a record of Gabriel’s repeated misinterpretations of the people and narratives around him. This is true of the women he interacts with; most egregiously, he does not even imagine that his wife has …

  • Partial Universals in Literature

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEStyle2024

    It is always a pleasure to engage with the work of Patrick Colm Hogan. Hogan’s contributions to various fields of the study of literature have been both important and salutary. His widely praised work on cognition is well-known. He has also written superbly on fundamental questions of narrative theory in his book Affective Narratology and in another work on authors and narrators (Narrative Discourse). His essay “Stories, Wars, and Emotions: The A…

  • Plotting Against Plausibility: Toward a Poetics of the Improbable

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEStyle2024

    The concept of probability has been central to narrative poetics since before the time of Aristotle. By contrast, non-probabilistic types of narrative have largely been ignored or treated as misguided or sadly failed attempts at probabilistic stories. The history of literature, however, includes several distinct types of non- or anti-probabilistic narrative, all of which have been in existence for centuries. This article identifies four types of …

  • Factors That Reduce Parental Concern for Concussion Risks in Youth Tackle Football

    Joseph Mcglynn, Brian Richardson et al.ARTICLESociology of Sport Journal2022Cited by: 4References: 7

    This study sought to identify factors that reduce parental concern of concussion risks for children who play youth tackle American football. Interviews were conducted with parents who allowed children between the ages of 10 and 15 years to play on tackle football teams. Factors that reduced parental concern included advances in equipment safety and helmet technology, active parental monitoring and relationship building with coaches, and social co…

  • Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEPoetics Today2022

    This book analyzes and theorizes unnatural (that is, antimimetic) narratives in digital media; in doing so it promises to greatly extend the range of unnatural studies, revise and add to narrative theory, intervene in the theory and analysis of digital narratives, and critically deploy and assess cognitive narratology. It is a highly ambitious work that is situated on several intersecting cutting edges.After a useful introduction that defines its…

  • It Might Also Be Good for Your Brain: Cognitive and Social Benefits That Motivate Parents to Permit Youth Tackle Football

    Open AccessJoseph Mcglynn, Rebecca D Boneau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sport and Social Issues2020Cited by: 10References: 69

    Concussions in youth sports are a rising health concern. Between 1.7- and 3-million concussions occur each year in youth sport and recreation settings. This qualitative study investigated how parents assess the physical and social risks of allowing their children to participate in tackle football. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 sets of parents ( N = 24) who had permitted their middle school aged children to play on tackle footb…

  • Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel by Dorothee Birke

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEPoetics Today2019

    Review Article| March 01 2019 Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel by Dorothee Birke Birke, Dorothee, Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. xi + 256 pp. Brian Richardson Brian Richardson University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2019) 40 (1): 167–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-…

  • We Are a Football Family”: Making Sense of Parents’ Decisions to Allow Their Children to Play Tackle Football

    Open AccessRebecca D Boneau, Brian Richardson et al.ARTICLECommunication & Sport2018Cited by: 3References: 10

    Parents of middle school–aged children face a true dilemma as they consider whether to allow their children to play tackle football. The sport is cited as one that fosters a number of intangible benefits but is increasingly mentioned as dangerous for youth participants. This study employed a sensemaking theory framework to explore the family, community, and media dynamics that influence how parents made sense of their football decisions. We inter…

  • Fictional Minds

    Lars Bernaerts, Brian RichardsonARTICLEPoetics Today2018References: 22

    In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem mutually exclusive. They each highlight different aspects of what narrators and characters think and feel, and their explanatory grounds differ. An unnatural reading unearths the narrative features, such as literal mind reading, that cannot be reduced to real-world possibilities, whereas a cognitive approach may focus on what is analogous to real-w…

  • Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Martin McLaughlin

    Guido Bonsaver, Brian Richardson et al.BOOKCultural Reception, Translation…2017

  • The Creation and Reception of Fortunio's Regole Grammaticali (1516)

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEThe Italianist2016

    The first printed grammar of the Italian vernacular, Fortunio's Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua (1516) responded to a need for guidance in imitating Tuscan authors of the Trecento, in line with the doctrine whose most authoritative proponent was Pietro Bembo. The Regole emerged on the fringes of the cultural mainstream. Fortunio conceived the work in Venice but he came to be suspected of treachery against that state. The structure of the …

  • Texts in Transit: Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century

    Open AccessBrian RichardsonARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

    Texts in Transit: Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century. Lotte Hellinga. Library of the Written Word 38; The Handpress World 29. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiv + 452 pp. $193. - Volume 68 Issue 3

  • Blowing the Whistle Off the Field of Play: An Empirical Model of Whistle-Blower Experiences in the Intercollegiate Sport Industry

    Open AccessBrian Richardson, Joseph McglynnARTICLECommunication & Sport2014References: 12

    Unethical behavior within collegiate sports departments appears to be commonplace. Athletic programs at a number of high-profile universities have been sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the past decade. When athletic departments participate in corrupt behavior, the possibility of whistle-blowing exists. Although organizational scholars have developed theoretical models describing whistle-blowing processes, it is unclea…

  • The Social Connotations of Singing Verse in Cinquecento Italy

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEThe Italianist2014

    The singing of verse in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy could be associated with social classes to varying degrees. Private performances among the upper classes centred on lyric verse. In the late Quattrocento the courtly poetry of performers such as Serafino Aquilano found an audience outside the social elite, but in the early Cinquecento Bembo promoted a separation of written lyric verse from poetry that might be associated with pop…

  • Oral Culture in Early Modern Italy: Performance, Language, Religion

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEThe Italianist2014

    The articles in this issue study the uses and importance of orality in a range of contexts: the \nsung performance of poems in the piazza, language varieties on stage, the presentation of \nwomen’s speech in literary works, spoken and sung devotions, and preaching in the age of the \nCounter-Reformation. The essays derive from a project, funded by the European Research Council, on Oral Culture, \nManuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy

  • What Really Is Unnatural Narratology

    Jan Alber, Stefan Iversen et al.ARTICLEStoryWorlds A Journal of…2013Cited by: 3References: 1

    What Really Is Unnatural Narratology? Jan Alber (bio), Stefan Iversen (bio), Henrik Skov Nielsen (bio), and Brian Richardson (bio) We are always happy to clarify our work, discuss our ideas, explain our concepts further, and, for that matter, rethink our terms, arguments, and positions. This is the job of any intellectual, and it is especially important when one is developing a new conceptual paradigm. Hence, we would like to thank David Herman, …

  • Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy

    Brian Richardson, Bruce J Richardson et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2012

    Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This is the first detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its a…

  • The Use of Vattel in the American Law of Nations

    Open AccessBrian RichardsonARTICLEAmerican Journal of International…2012Cited by: 4References: 10

    Although careful scholarly treatment of the history of international law is now thriving, within U.S. courts that history now begins with one eighteenth-century treatise published in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1758 and published in translation for modern readers under the aegis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1916. This treatise is Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens ou principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite et au…

  • Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, by Jon R. Snyder

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2011

    Journal Article Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, by Jon R. Snyder Get access Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, by Jon R. Snyder (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2009; pp. xxiv + 280. £30.95). Brian Richardson Brian Richardson University of Leeds [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV…

  • Unaturlige fortællinger. Hinsides mimetiske modeller

    Open AccessJan Alber, Stefan Iversen et al.ARTICLEK&K - Kultur og Klasse2011

    UNNATURAL NARRATIVES, UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY | In recent years, the study of unnatural narrative has developed into one of the most exciting new paradigms in narrative theory. Both younger and more established scholars have become increasingly interested in the analysis of unnatural texts, many of which have been consistently neglected or marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. By means of the collaboration of four scholars who have be…

  • Varie maniere di parlare: Aspects of learning Italian in Renaissance Italy and Britain

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEThe Italianist2010

  • A Scribal Publisher of Political Information: Francesco Marcaldi

    Brian RichardsonARTICLEItalian Studies2009

    Between 1571 and 1597, Francesco Marcaldi transcribed nine short accounts of foreign and Italian states, presenting them to diplomats, clerics, soldiers, and other individuals throughout Italy. Well over a hundred copies, mostly in his own hand, can be identified. Little is known about the man; he moved between many cities, from Turin, Milan, and Venice to as far south as Naples, and he may have been a secretary. This article considers the kind o…