Search Results - "Orbis litterarum"

The Nobel Roll of Honor: Comparing literatures and compiling lists of Nobel laureates in the early twentieth century by Sneis, Jørgen, Spoerhase, Carlos

“…Abstract This paper analyzes what may be called Olympic Internationalism as a framework for comparing literatures in the early twentieth century. Specifically,…”
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“Order and adventure”: The political in Paul Auster's 4321 by Zhang, Meiping

“…Paul Auster's 4321 is on the surface organized around a multiplication of one's life story. This essay argues that the kind of textual multiplication developed…”
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Reconsidering vulnerability, history, and our postmodern condition in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys by Aqeeli, Ammar

“…This paper analyzes Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys (2019) by exploring the consequences of an uneven distribution of vulnerability in relation to both…”
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Travels with BERT: Surfacing the intertextuality in Hans Christian Andersen's travel writing and fairy tales through the network lens of large language model‐based topic modeling by Tangherlini, Timothy R., Chen, Ruofei

“…Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have garnered the greatest popular and scholarly attention despite the interdependence of works across the broad range of…”
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“Poison may lurk at the bottom”: The ruin of Jacob Vaark and paradise already lost in Toni Morrison's A Mercy by Hillier, Russell M.

“…The essay advances a sustained close reading of perhaps the most complete representation of a white male character in Toni Morrison's oeuvre, Jacob Vaark, the…”
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“Partialist” and “universalist”: American exceptionalism in antebellum writing on national identity by Cananau, Iulian

“…In this article, I analyze six well‐known antebellum essays on US national identity from the perspective of their engagement with the contemporary…”
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Newton in the poetry of Friedrich Schiller by Sieling, Villads Wjac

“…Abstract This article attempts to explain the peculiar role of Isaac Newton in the poetry of Friedrich Schiller. I show that Newtonian ideas appear from the…”
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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games by Walther, Bo Kampmann

“…Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various…”
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“An enormous sadness touched with rue”: The pathos of oneness in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree by Hillier, Russell M.

“…In Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, the novel's titular protagonist Cornelius Suttree resists his father's self‐righteous conviction in the Nietzschean “pathos of…”
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Camilla's traces: Movement as an analytical key to literary history by Contzen, Eva, Kukkonen, Karin

“…In this article, we develop a framework for the analysis of ‘movement’ in literary texts. We focus on characters, translation and transmission, thereby going…”
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Nichts verlangte er von seiner Umwelt, außer dass er sie provozieren und vor den Kopf stoßen durfte“: Jesus‐Figuren in der modernen deutschsprachigen und polnischen Literatur by Jakubów, Marek

“…Zusammenfassung Die zahlreichen Romane in der deutschsprachigen und polnischen Literatur, die in den letzten, durch die Säkularisierungsprozesse geprägten…”
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“An enormous sadness touched with rue”: T he pathos of oneness in C ormac M c C arthy's Suttree by Hillier, Russell M.

“…Abstract In Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , the novel's titular protagonist Cornelius Suttree resists his father's self‐righteous conviction in the Nietzschean…”
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Sit venia verbo: A case for dermacriticism by Hron, Irina

“…This article introduces the term “skinnedness” as a complementary notion to what we commonly refer to as skin. The term allows for a fundamental conceptual…”
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‘A random assembly of geometric forms’: Thing Theory in J. G. Ballard's and Ray Bradbury's short stories by Tereszewski, Marcin

“…Thing Theory is a relatively new field of research, developed largely by Bill Brown on the basis of an already existing new materialist movement with roots…”
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Approaching literary connectivity: Early reflections on a Shared Reading intervention in the light of postcritical thought by Pihl, Marie‐Elisabeth Lei, Kristensen, Mette Marie, Folker, Anna Paldam, Simonsen, Peter

“…During recent decades, numerous studies have examined uses of art and literature in the context of health care and preventive interventions. In a recent,…”
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Life criticism and De Quincey's ethical concern over the aestheticiability of murder by Duan, Yingjie, Tian, Junwu

“…Abstract The self‐reflexive tendency in De Quincey's seemingly Kantian aestheticization of murder allows some leeway in deciphering his underlying ethical…”
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Dreaming of Cydalise: Chimeras, disfiguration, translation by Luca, Dinu

“…This essay argues that translation, next to other kinds of language ferrying, can be profitably seen as remedial work. To make this point, I discuss five…”
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Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche by Szczepaniak, Monika

“…In Monika Maron's Flugasche (1981)—the first novel from the GDR to deal with environmental issues—the poisoned atmosphere in the city of B. functions as an…”
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Poet as poem: The intermedial staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love by Yang, Huayu, Wang, Bowen

“…Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) offers the audience a dream‐like voyage through the post‐mortem reminiscences of the central character, A. E…”
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Staging the Tories' Islamic Jihad against George I and the Whigs in Edward Young's The Revenge by Alhawamdeh, Hussein A.

“…This article analyzes Edward Young's nuanced employment of Islam and appropriation of the Qur'an, first translated into English as The Alcoran of Mahomet in…”
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