(2021). Bad English. Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain. English Studies. Ahead of Print.

Cet article expose le dépassement des paradigmes usuels du récit fantastique, tel qu’il s’est mis en place au XIXe siècle, à partir de fictions littéraires et cinématographiques contemporaines qui figurent l’articulation entre le double et la folie. L’article explore, dans un premier temps, l’assimilation traditionnelle du double au fantastique sous le signe de la pathologie mentale par la référence

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Abstract: The Orientalized magician was a significant figure in the cultural manufacture of the idea of Empire in nineteenth-century Britain. As by definition a deceiver, the conjuror could not help but embody identity and nationhood as unstable, even impossible, performances. With the character Signor Brunoni, in Cranford (1853), Elizabeth Gaskell stages Empire as a multi-faceted, conflicted, and

Abstract: This article brings theories of epistolarity to bear on contemporary debates over the nature of fictional character through a reading of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now. I argue that the many transcribed letters in the novel challenge the dichotomy of character as either textual or mimetic by replicating a medium through which real persons are encountered as texts, temporarily placing

Abstract: This article argues that an ethos of resistance permeates Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness and develops a feminist-historical lens to read the novel as a social critique of wartime myths around collaboration and resistance. Resistance operates at the level of plot and thematically; it also marks the novel’s form; and it describes the book’s status within scholarship, as it straddles traditional

Abstract: Readings of American Pastoral commonly center on the failures or limitations of the American dream, on the multi-generational immigrant experience of upward mobility and ethnic assimilation, and/or on the political and cultural convulsions of the 1960s. To set the book beside To the Lighthouse is to place it within a broader transnational context and subsume Roth the historian of twentieth-century

Abstract: Although the subject of much definitional debate, less attention has been paid to the Global South as a framework for literary analysis. I argue that this relational and comparative paradigm offers a critical vocabulary for elucidating the ways in which works of contemporary fiction are thinking along “global” axes, via analysis of three novels by writers from the African continent: Ngũgĩ

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research centers on African and Latin American literatures, with a focus on the intersection of large-scale comparative frameworks, such as the Global South, with local and regional specificities

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Vulnerable Youth in Richard Wright’s Protest Fiction Claire E. Lenviel The twenty-first-century Movement for Black Lives Teaches us daily about the countless injustices of black vulnerability and, since the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, the political power of that same vulnerability to organize protests, drive legislation

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice: A Reappraisal Izabela Hopkins In The Miller of Old Church, published in 1911 and set in her native Virginia where time all but stands still, Ellen Glasgow uses the voice of Abel Revercomb to verbalize what she sees as the southern malady and the blighted legacy of the Old South. Abel,

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Creating of Connelly’s Tavern and the Making of Mississippi’s Cultural Tourism Industry During the Great Depression Paul Hardin Kapp Throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century, Americans became fascinated with places associated with their country’s past. Spanish missions and fortresses in California and Florida; historic

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Not Just a Cash Crop: Etymology and Naming in As I Lay Dying Jeanne C. Ewert Faulkner scholars have long observed his fondness for choosing names, both given and surnames, that fit thematically into his works. He frequently gives his aristocratic families the Scots-Irish surnames that populated the antebellum US South. He often follows

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Faulkner at the Movies: Lucas Burch/Joe Brown/Joe E. Brown Karl F. Zender The purpose of this note is to identify and comment on a motion-picture-related joke in the second chapter of William Faulkner’s Light in August. The joke, an allusion to the film comedian Joe E. Brown, occurs midway through the conversation between Byron Bunch and

ABSTRACT In this essay, I examine how both Claudia Rankine in Citizen and Ben Lerner in The Topeka School present innovative modes of voicing and listening by using free indirect style to relate inner voice and social discourse. Discussing these literary works is only part of my focus, though, for the following reason: theorists of free indirect style haven't tended to consider that style in terms

This article outlines how Dante’s philosophy and theology turn on issues that are being debated in broader philosophical, theological, and theoretical milieus today. It emphasizes, in particular, how the new horizon opened by certain postmodern—and more specifically post-secular—turns in philosophy shifts the light falling on the interface between the concepts of transcendence and immanence. As a result

This article argues that Renaissance legal culture provided a robust means of evaluating the epistemological status of rumour, informed by the Roman law of proof. In order to do so, the article explores the meaning of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings from late Renaissance France, focusing on a major series of interrogations for homicide in the Parlement of Paris. It contributes to legal history

ABSTRACT The cognitive potentials of creative nonfiction in achieving narrative empathic engagement have not received due attention from previous researchers. Therefore, this study aims at exploring the literary attributes and narrative elements which render creative nonfiction as effective as fiction in the promotion of the reader’s empathic response. Drawing on implications from narrative theory

Digital literary productions often combine both the ephemeral dimensions of their screen-readable manifestation and the perennial dimension of their program. Their status thus lies between a totally ephemeral pole of performance and a totally perennial pole of reproducible publication. This “two-sided” status questions our conception of the work. The article begins with a pragmatic analysis of the

While digital tools and platforms have become part of our everyday life, authors of fictional narratives voice the emerging hopes and fears resulting from interactive digital media. In this paper, I analyze two recently-published French novels, namely Un amour d’espion by Clément Bénech (2017) and Licorne by Nora Sandor (2019), in terms of how social networks affect in new ways the processes whereby

The present essay aims at illustrating Marlene Creates’s web project Brickle, nish, and knobbly (2015), as a key example of Eco-Digital Humanities. First of all, it is a digital work of art made of ice images. Besides, it is also a digital archive meant to salvage a linguistic treasury of local idioms that both name and describe all types of snow and ice formations in Newfoundland, Canada. Therefore

The use of digital information technologies in the humanities, and the various new-media art projects, presents a plethora of opportunities for the archiving of the digitized/digital cultural content, such as online databases and virtual museums. On the other hand, the digital archives are never something permanent, they are vulnerable as regards the maintenance and also the technological development

(2021). An iridescent device: premodern Ottoman poetry. Middle Eastern Literatures. Ahead of Print.

We know very little about the haberdasher John Dernelly, beyond that which is documented in his short will and probate. The subject of this note, his autographed poem, can be found in Bodleian Library, Eng. Poet. C. 3. This guard book is a small miscellany bound in 1895 as part of a collection of ‘paleographic specimens’.11 Unfortunately, the origin of the leaves within this guard book has not been

CrosslandRachel, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Pp. xii + 193 (Oxford English Monographs). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £60.00 (ISBN 978 0 19 881597 6).

No persons of any race other than the white raceshall use or occupy any building or any lot, exceptthat this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domesticservants domiciled with an owner or tenant,said the property deed. Somehow I crossedenemy lines, went undetected in the light of day.I wasn’t alone. Three other families made their wayinto Mayfair Park, several Jews. Most neighbors scoffedat the

The River Merchant’s Wife: A LetterWhile my hair was still cut straight across my foreheadI played about the front gate, pulling flowers.You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.And we went on living in the village of Chokan:Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.At fourteen I married My Lord you.I never laughed, being bashful.Lowering my

ABSTRACT The paper explores the politics of silence as a language of resistance through the prism of feminist discourse in Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed (1993). Silence marks an essential presence in Sontag’s writings ranging from her essays to her creative oeuvres. Sontag’s initial approach to silence has been that of a modernist aesthete where she understood silence as an aesthetic prospect in art

(2021). Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is. The Explicator. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT When Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins was published in 1918, readers were advised to brace themselves. Robert Bridges introduced the volume with the starchy disapproval of the schoolmaster, reporting on ‘Definite' and ‘bad' ‘faults of style'; notably, a tendency towards ‘oddity and obscurity'. We may wish to cavil with Bridges’s cavilling, or contest his foundational assumptions. What we cannot

ABSTRACT This essay considers Edward Said's many engagements with the work of Frantz Fanon and how those readings are woventogether through a politics of style, exile, and diaspora.

Article Frontmatter was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Editorial was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

This article aims to present an overall interpretation of a poem by Callimachus that centres on the dead Ptolemaic queen Arsinoe II. Firstly the position of the Ektheosis Arsinoes in Callimachus’ œuvre, the genre to which it belongs and its structure will be investigated. This leads to the analysis of the highly allusive character of the work (above all to Hesiod, Ibycus, Simonides and Pindar as well

Article Genizah Ms. 17: an Extract from an Early Version of the Passio of St Plato of Ancyra, Part 2 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Given the Corpus Hermeticum ’s history of formation, it has prompted the attempt to separate layers or groups of writings within the collection of treatises. This process of division, which was for the most part undertaken on criteria of content (dualism, pantheism, etc.), has been viewed rather negatively by the more recent research, on grounds of method. Given the discovery of numerous doctrinal

The reception of the work of Thucydides in late antique authors constitutes a huge chapter of allusions and reworkings, on methodological, structural, lexical levels and more. A fortiori, certain particularly famous passages by the historian are well suited for a study of their reception, above all where key terms or rare expressions are concentrated. The case of the adjective ἀλγεινός, a poeticism

Killing a sleeping person is a popular motif in world literature and can be found already in the Iliad , with the murder of the sleeping Rhesus. The present paper surveys the motif of killing a sleeper in Greek and Roman literature and in iconography, where the dastardliness of the deed is clearly accentuated. The sleeping chamber was hard for outsiders to access, for which reason this method of killing

The two versions of the myth of Ceres and Proserpina produced by Ovid at Fasti 4.417‒618 and Metamorphoses 5.341–661 have played an exceptionally important role for the knowledge and transmission of this episode in Western culture, from an anthropological and religious point of view but above all from an artistic and literary one. Nonetheless, the complexity of the two texts still confronts modern

In the paper the fragment transmitted by Ausonius and ascribed to Quintus Cicero on the signs of the zodiac is analysed in terms of language, transmission history and intertextuality. As a result, authorship by Q. Cicero must be regarded with great scepticism.

Article Μωμεύειν in Il. 24.436 e Hes. Op. 756 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article An Unnoticed Pun in Hipponax fr. 3 a W. = 2 D. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Plutarch’s Use of Anecdotes and the Date of De Tranquillitate Animi was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Sull’unità dei trattati de barbarismo, de soloecismo e de acyrologia di Polibio di Sardi was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Su una crux liviana (Liv. 22.13.6) was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article La veglia e il ruminare: nota testuale a Plin. HN praef. 18 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Zu Ampelius was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).

Article Frontmatter was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).

The article takes as its starting point a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote , focusing on the first passage from Cervantes’ Quijote that is quoted verbatim in the text. An invocation of the river nymphs and the nymph Echo („las ninfas de los ríos, la húmida y dolorosa Eco“), it is singled out by the narrator as bearing the voice of Pierre Menard despite having

The paper reads Alfred Döblin’s novel Amazonas (1937/1938) in the context of current debates about world literature. It argues that these debates not only refer to a certain group of texts or to a literary system, but concern problems of reading and representation, namely how to read literature beyond the paradigms of national and comparative literature and how to represent a world, especially the

Article Frieder von Ammon und Dirk von Petersdorff, Hgg.: Lyrik / Lyrics. Songtexte als Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019. 424 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).

Article Ulrich Gaier und Monika Küble: Der politische Mörike und seine radikalen Freunde. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 338 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).

Article Malika Maskarinec: The Forces of Form in German Modernism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2018. 240 pp. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).