Research Papers in the Humanities

Paper 1:  James M. Hegarty
Guru and Shabad: The Literary Construction of Religious Authority in Narratives of the life of Guru Nanak (October 2007)
Key words: Sikhism, Hagiography, Cultural Memory, Historiography, Narratology, South Asia.

Paper 2:  Gerard O'Grady
Facets of a female politician: representations of Ségolène Royal, French presidential candidate, in British broadsheet newspapers(October 2007)
Key words: Critical Discourse, Systemic Linguistics, newspaper text, gender, celebrity

Paper 3: Carl Plasa
‘Muse Suppress the Tale’: James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and the Poetry of Refinement (October 2007)
Key words: sugar; slavery; Caribbean; poetry; eighteenth century

Paper 4: Robin Fawcett
The Many Types of ‘Theme’ in English: Their Semantic Systems and Functional Syntax (November 2007)
Key words: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Theme, Cardiff Grammar

Paper 5: Robin Fawcett
The grammar of ‘typicity’ in English: an exercise in scientific inquiry (November 2007)
Key words: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Cardiff Grammar, typicity, syntax, semantics

Paper 6: Stephen Knight
Dialectical Heroes: Robin Hood and King Arthur Across Time, Genre and Politics (November 2007)
Key words: King Arthur; Robin Hood; Sociocultural analysis; Mythic traditions; Medievalism
This working paper has been removed from this website, as a version is now published: 
'Robin Hood versus King Arthur', in In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and Its Afterlife: Essays in Memory of John Anderson, ed. David Matthews, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, 9-24.