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Between writer and militant: Arab realism and the accidental
This article explores Arab theories of socialist realism in the 1950s with a focus on the literary battles among Marxist-oriented critics in Egypt...
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Electronic literary creation: dialogues through cultural recycling
This article analyzes digital recycling as a cultural strategy through which it is possible to recognize the dialogue between popular digital culture...
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The time of data. theoretical thinking, statistical thinking
Contemporary experiments in Digital Humanities and distant reading tend to propose an empirical approach to literary facts. This development leads us...
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Past present: Coal and Hard Times
Climate change is all about the past, and fossil fuel narratives are critical in unearthing this past and providing the conceptual energy we need to...
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“Give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.” Madeline Miller’s Circe and the issue of claiming agency
This article proposes an alternative interpretation—with regard to the current state of research—of Madeline Miller’s Circe as a character claiming...
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Winging it with Wittgenstein and Benjamin
In this article, I consider the philosophical question of chance in the context of a comparative discussion of two early twentieth-century...
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Historical fiction: From historical accuracy to prosthetic memory
In this article, I contribute to the discussion on the cognitive value of contemporary historical fiction as a means of understanding the past....
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The shape of chance: what can stones tell us about artistic creativity and literary theory?
What does literature tell us about the concept of chance? And how is chance relevant to literary theory and comparison? Relating chance to theory is...
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Contingency traps: the role of form in creative processes
Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life....
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A generic mystery: Laura Purcell’s The shape of darkness
Laura Purcell’s 2021 novel The shape of darkness , advertised as a Gothic chiller, is set in Victorian Bath and tells two interlaced stories: one of a...
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Always needed, always hunted. Witches, female healthcare, and the need for a female history in Ami McKay’s The witches of New York
Understanding historical fiction as a hybrid space, both presenting the past and embracing the culture it is written in allows insights into the...
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“You are the spawn of Cain!” Grendel’s mother’s literary appropriations
The paper is devoted to the study of three post-2000 novels appropriating Beowulf , whose common denominator is the amplification and humanization of...
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Robin Hood and resistance: the spatial ethics of “felaushyp” in A Lytell Gest of Robyn Hode
In this article, I argue that the greenwood in the early ballad A Lytell Gest of Robyn Hode constructs a unique subjectivity that can inform...
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Literary theory between contingency and contiguity: Yakov Druskin’s “Law of Heterogeneity”
The notion of chance epitomizes the limits and challenges of any theory’s struggle for control over itself as well as over its objects. Although...
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Queering the female writer in screen biofictions: Daphne (2007) and Shirley (2020)
The article focuses on two examples of female lives re-imagined as queer in screen biofiction: Daphne (Beavan, 2007) about Daphne de Maurier, and Shirley...