Joanna Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0424-1966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘A Menace to England’
This paper examines the figure of the egg collector as an arch-villain in two novels about rare birds that were published in the 1940s: Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop, and The Awl Birds by J.K. Stanford. Drawing on insights from birdwatching literature published in the same period, I demonstrate that the extreme vilification of the egg collector in both texts represents a dramatic change in attitude towards a pastime that was previous…
Antropoceno Sónico - Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança (II)
Transcending Boundaries
The multiple crises of the Anthropocene include a crisis in sto- rytelling. Amitav Ghosh, for example, has claimed that not only is literary fiction incapable of representing climate change, it is also complicit in its concealment in the broader culture (2016). Ghosh suggests the increasing entwining of image and text brought about by the Internet could lead to a hybridity of form that will free readers from the unhelpful logocentrism of re- cent…
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‘A Menace to England’
This paper examines the figure of the egg collector as an arch-villain in two novels about rare birds that were published in the 1940s: Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop, and The Awl Birds by J.K. Stanford. Drawing on insights from birdwatching literature published in the same period, I demonstrate that the extreme vilification of the egg collector in both texts represents a dramatic change in attitude towards a pastime that was previous…
Antropoceno Sónico - Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança (II)
Transcending Boundaries
The multiple crises of the Anthropocene include a crisis in sto- rytelling. Amitav Ghosh, for example, has claimed that not only is literary fiction incapable of representing climate change, it is also complicit in its concealment in the broader culture (2016). Ghosh suggests the increasing entwining of image and text brought about by the Internet could lead to a hybridity of form that will free readers from the unhelpful logocentrism of re- cent…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)