Emily Horton

Bio: Emily Horton is an academic researcher from Brunel University London. The author has contributed to research in topic(s): Uncanny & Traumatic memories. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publication(s) receiving 48 citation(s).

Ali Smith: contemporary critical perspectives

Abstract: Foreword: Marina Warner Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Ali Smith's Life INTRODUCTION Monica Germana (University of Westminster) and Emily Horton (Brunel University) CHAPTER ONE Contemporary Space and Affective Ethics in Ali Smith's Short Stories Emily Horton (Brunel University) CHAPTER TWO Simile and Similarity in Ali Smith's Like Ian Blyth (University of St Andrews) CHAPTER THREE Narrating Remainders: Spectral Presences in Ali Smith's Fictions Stephen M. Levin (Clarke University) CHAPTER FOUR Ali Smith and the Philosophy of Grammar Mark Currie (Queen Mary's University of London) CHAPTER FIVE Queer Metamorphoses: Girl Meets Boy and the Futures of Queer Fiction Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester) CHAPTER SIX Narrating Intrusion: Deceptive Storytelling and Frustrated Desires in The Accidental and There but for the Ulrike Tancke (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz) CHAPTER SEVEN "The Space That Wrecks Our Abode": The Stranger in Ali Smith's Hotel World and The Accidental Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University) CHAPTER EIGHT Idiosyncrasy and Currency: Ali Smith and the Contemporary Canon Dominic Head (University of Nottingham) CHAPTER NINE 'The Uncanny can happen': Desire and Belief in The Seer Monica Germana (University of Westminster) AFTERWORD 'Sidekick playing the same tune': Writing Ali Smith in Norwegian Merete Alfsen INTERVIEW Gillian Beer interviews Ali Smith References Works Cited by Contributors Further Reading Works by Ali Smith Critical Material Index

Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and Enduring Love

Abstract: This article explores Ian McEwan’s negotiation of the “two-culture” debate between literature and science in The Child in Time (1987) and Enduring Love (1997). My claim is that these novels update this debate by introducing ideas put forward in the field of contemporary popular science, while also placing popular science in conversation with literary postmodernism. In particular, I consider the degree of cultural authority his novels grant to science within the contemporary, recognizing both the priority given to scientific values as a basis for social knowledge and also their constructedness and therefore susceptibility to political appropriation.

21st Century Trauma and the Uncanny

Abstract: In Pat Barker’s 2003 novel Double Vision, the intertwining of traumatic and uncanny aesthetics works to affirm the role of the unconscious in traumatic memory, drawing attention to the uneasy connection between trauma, violence, and libidinal fantasy, and offering through this a generic challenge to overly mimetic traumatic representations. The ambivalent significance of traumatic memory as a source both of hermeneutic excess and psychological insight is foremost here, offering brief glimpses into the hidden fantasies of impacted characters. As such, the novel can be read as a semi-Gothic exploration of traumatic pathology, highlighting trauma’s experiential ‘possession’ of an individual or culture in its happening, and questioning along with this the opposing ‘traumatological’, fantastic, and ideological bases for traumatic suffering. The findings of this examination in turn infer a larger pronouncement on the ambivalent ethics of traumatic representation and the critical need for narrative and artistic self-examination.

Contemporary Crisis Fictions: Affect and Ethics in the Modern British Novel

Abstract: Introduction: Contemporary Crisis Fiction: A New Approach to the Writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 1. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre 2. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reassessments of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift. 3. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan 4. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro Epilogue: A Review of Contemporary Crisis Fiction with an Emphasis on Overlap Between the Works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Index

On Human Nature

Abstract: View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how "The Insect Societies" led him to write "Sociobiology," and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

Regarding the Pain of Others

Abstract: Continuous casting process for the production of hollow ingot using an improved direct chill casting equipment having a molding system comprising a hollow mold and a movable platform, wherein at least one core and a pipe for introducing outer air are provided, said core being made from a refractory material unwettable with a molten metal and having a convergent taper at the side and an air runner for introducing outer air, which is packed with an air-permeable material, at the bottom, and said pipe for introducing outer air extending upwards from the air runner and passing through the core. The continuous casting process comprises continuously pouring a molten metal into a space surrounded with the hollow mold and the core of the above equipment; cooling the molten metal only at the side wall of the hollow mold without cooling at the side of the core; thereby solidifying the molten metal to form an ingot having a hollow, wherein the interface of the frozen metal and the liquid metal is present at the position around the core; and continuously lowering the ingot thus formed while introducing spontaneously outer air into the hollow part via the pipe for introducing outer air and the air runner of the core.

The Theological Significance of the Relations of Freedom and Time in the Sciences and Humanities: An Evaluation of the Contributions of David Bohm and Pauli Pylkko

Abstract: THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RELATIONS OF FREEDOM AND TIME IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: AN EVALUATION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DAVID BOHM AND PAULI PYLKKÖ by Michael F. Younker Adviser: Martin Hanna ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHOF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

Trauma and the Memory of Politics

Abstract: (2004). Trauma and the Memory of Politics. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 119-119.