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A Choice of Two: Structure and Literary Form in “Auðunar þáttr vestfirska”
“Auðunar þáttr vestfirska” or the story of “Audun and the Bear” is about two kings, one Icelander, and one bear, and concerns a wide range of topics...
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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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“Think on the Bludy Serk:” Allegory and Figura in Henryson’s Minor Poem
This essay analyzes the allegorical mode of the previously understudied poem by Robert Henryson, The Bludy Serk. In Serk , a knight saves a lady whom...
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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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De France dulce m’unt tolud la flor”: On the Chanson de Roland and the Liber floridus
This article looks at the encyclopedic Liber Floridus (Lambert de St Omer, c. 1121) and the Oxford Chanson de Roland (c. 1100) and how these coeval...
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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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Ecophobia and Social Class Identity: An Ecocritical Approach to the Nature/Culture Divide in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales “The Young King” and “The Star Child”
This article applies an ecocritical approach to the analysis of the nature/culture divide in Oscar Wilde’s “The Young King” and “The Star-Child”....
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Hebban olla vogala: An Eleventh-Century Link Between Dutch and English Literary History
The short eleventh-century lyric Hebban olla vogala is considered the earliest literary text in Dutch. Yet it only survives as a badly faded pen...
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“von kindlichen Träumen belogen”: Joachim Ringelnatz’ (ent-)idealisierte Märchenwelt
Entgegen der Popularität von Joachim Ringelnatz’ (1883–1934) Märchen beim Lesepublikum, fehlt bislang eine diachrone Betrachtung seiner Neigung zur...
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Perfil revisado: Vicente Aleixandre, Antonio Machado y otros lectores de Carolina Coronado en la Edad de Plata
Important authors of the Spanish Silver Age such as Vicente Aleixandre or Antonio Machado show, at some point in their work, the reading and...
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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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Virtuelle Metamorphosen - Zur Subversion der Selbstoptimierung in Kevin Kuhns Roman Hikikomori
Kevin Kuhn’s novel Hikikomori is a postmodern Entwicklungsroman. In this essay, I read the novel as a subversion of the neoliberal paradigm, which...