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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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“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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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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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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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...
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“I Demand the Friendship of Zoroaster”: William Godwin and World Literature of Friendship
The debate about world literature holds a prominent place in national and comparative literary studies today. However, despite its significance,...
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Edward Garnett and Arnold Bennett: The Publisher’s Reader and a Budding Novelist
Four hitherto unpublished letters from Edward Garnett (1868–1936) to Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), dated 26 February and 6 March 1902, and 27 November...
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“Arrojóse el mancebito/al charco de los atunes” de Luis de Góngora y la representación paródica del héroe-galán mitológico.
Góngora’s parody “Arrojóse el mancebito” (1589) is one of the foundational poems in the context of Gongora’s corpus as it may have inspired a new...
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Metaphors in the Muspilli
This study delves into the metaphorical nature of the OHG Muspilli . Employing cognitive linguistics, the research aims to explore the deeper...
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Cervantes y los servicios de inteligencia: Espías e informantes en “La gitanilla”
Miguel de Cervantes had firsthand experience with spying techniques in North Africa, first as a captive in Algiers and later as a royal envoy on a...
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Effeminate Bodies, Individual Confusion and National Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß and Yu Dafu’s “Boundless Night”
Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906) and Yu Dafu’s “Boundless Night” (1922) adopt similar plots about homoeroticism between the...
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Dante, American-Style: Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Adaptations of the Divine Comedy and European Literature
In 2010, the American graphic designer Seymour Chwast (New York, °1931) published Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation , which condenses...
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A Hard-Boiled Hero in an Atomized World: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s El hombre de mi vida and Milenio Carvalho Lament Neoliberal Alienation
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Pepe Carvalho detective novels comprise a seminal series, spanning eighteen novels from 1972 to 2004, that consolidated...
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"Il y a un lutin dans le Bois aux Roches!": Formes et sens du merveilleux dans la série Johan et Pirlouit de Peyo
This article examines the forms and functions of the medieval and medievalized marvelous in Peyo’s bande dessinée series Johan et Pirlouit . As the...
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Glossing Abbo with Ælfric’s Grammar/Glossary
The essay identifies the Grammar/Glossary of the homilist Ælfric as the source for the continuous Old English gloss to the prose version of Abbo of...
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Spectres of Virginia Woolf: Rhythmic and Heterotopic Haunting in “A Haunted House”
In this paper I offer a reading of Virginia Woolf’s story “A Haunted House” from the perspectives of hauntology and heterotopic spatiality. I argue...
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A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India
Premodern Indian philology in the sense of ecdotics and interpretation begins late in the scholarly tradition, at the end of the first millennium CE....