(2021). Cuélebre. Textual Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). S at the Beach. Textual Practice. Ahead of Print.

The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most current scholarship on Old English meter. A weakness of the Sievers–Bliss theory is that it occupies a middle ground between two levels of analytic description, distinguished by Roman Jakobson in an influential article as ‘verse instance’ and ‘verse design’. Metrists in the Sievers–Bliss tradition employ

Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas.KimJinah . Duke UP, 2019. ix1185 pages. $24.95 paper.

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality.NashJennifer C. Duke UP, 2019. 184 pages. $94.95 hardcover; $24.95 paperback.

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives.SetkaStella. Lexington Books, 2020. vii1162 pages. $90.00 hardback; $45.00 ebook.

The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States.Sadowski-SmithClaudia. New York UP, 2018. ix1217 pages. $89.00 hardcover; $28.00 paperback.

(2021). AMIN SALEH: THE POETRY OF AN UNFAMILIAR SELF. Translation Review. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article reconstructs the various, and at times contradictory, phases of the critical debate on Italian crime fiction from national unification to the present day. I rely on the key ideas of ‘resistance’ and ‘canonisation’ with the intention of showing how, over this long span of time, they have alternately polarised and reframed the nature of the debate, changing its coordinates and shaping

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Material Girls:Gender and Material Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome Mireille M. Lee and Lauren Hackworth Petersen From birth to death, individuals negotiated ancient constructions of gender through their engagement with objects. Articles of dress were essential for communicating and construing gender. Hand-held objects such as walking

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Material Girls:An Introduction Sarah Levin-Richardson You know that we are living in a material worldAnd I am a material girl Madonna "Material Girl" In the music video for her 1984 hit "Material Girl," Madonna commands the stage in the guise of a glamorous movie star wearing a strapless pink gown with matching full-length gloves. She

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Procne, Philomela, And The Voice Of The Peplos Stamatia Dova* Philemon A.P. 9.452.1–5; text Beckby 1968 Rejoice, Procne, in greetings from your sister Philomela, if indeed such greetings can bring you joy. May the robe [peplos] become the messenger of all the pain that savage Tereus inflicted on my heart, when he shut me, ill-fated girl

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Unveiling Female Feelings for Objects:Deianeira and Her ὌPΓΑΝΑ in Sophocles' Trachiniai Anne-Sophie Noel "Comme on aime ce que l'on quitte!" H. Caïn1 In Objects of the Dead, sociologist Margaret Gibson investigates how modern Australians utilize material culture in dealing with the death of loved ones. "Death reconstructs our experience

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Butcher Blocks, Vegetable Stands, and Home-Cooked Food:Resisting Gender and Class Constructions in The Roman World Mira Green In his Metamorphoses, Ovid shares a tale about an elderly couple's home-cooked food (Met. 8.616–724). Preparing a meal for two impromptu guests who knocked on their door, Baucis brings her small kitchen flame back

Each of us has a pierced heart and a voice of glass,too much time and perhaps too little,anonymous except for our promiscuous names.The kicked down door lies like a bridgeinto Rome. We trespass because it’s a rightof passage out from the hard-fought homesof small children and hibernating drunks.But their love only grows moreunavenged with blazing paint and real flames.We conquer the already gutted

It's a dog's life but what about peopleon the edge of sanity, Fionaheadstrong on a leash, pulling S. back?You can compare the contours of seal pupsto infants, blame dopamine in the hindbrainfor his room an anticipatory shrineof squeaky rubber things, bathetic anecdotesI encourage to induce a laugh.Fiona this, Fiona that, Fiona just turned twelveand I'm terrified. Look at Teslawho endured the same afflictionas

Do you remember the blizzard of '78?she asked in 2012 I rememberbecause she was dying and death came to herlike a treaty with my father, who turned to stareat a window filledwith the sunny miles around them.Now he's gone and I'm goingback to four feet on the ground and no power,how they wound up loverslong after the weddingto his mistress. I remember the grating scrapeof his shovel but also my mother

My parents never went to parties, had dinnerguests maybe twice, club soda from 1950,a dusty bottle of cooking sherry.Life with them distills to a few memoriesI still indulge in. They’re my antiquity,my befuddled canon. I find them waltzing as alwaysinto walls like they might tip overthe house, her steely little smileas she waved a butter knife, his upper handdemanding it, their screamsget out! or if

The Rose Outside my Kitchen Window in December (Horace, Odes 1.38)Mitte sectari, puer o laboranssedulus: spectans modo per fenestram(aspice!) inveni rosa quo locorumsera moretur.Boy, stop searching with laboriouscare: looking just now out the window(see?) I found the one place wherethe late rose lingers.

ABSTRACT This essay reviews developments in spatial theory since the 1960s to argue that any consideration of possible future worlds must begin from a fully dialectical, and fully materialist theory of space. Much critical social and cultural theory instead begins from as unexamined assumption of absolute space, which is deeply problematic theoretically and especially politically. By contrast, what

Abstract This article examines the representation of HIV/AIDS in Nigerian fiction. Despite the scourge of the disease in Nigeria, the most prominent fictional titles have tended to be silent on the subject. Depictions of the disease appear in fiction published and circulated chiefly within the confines of the country. This article focuses on Felix N. Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze (2007, Ibadan: Evans

This paper re-examines the role of ‘client kings’ in the Roman east in the early Principate. Contrary to previous emphasis on continuity with the republican past, it proposes that Octavian-Augustus enacted a set of measures that fundamentally changed the relations of certain eastern monarchs with the imperial centre. These ‘provincial monarchs’ became a new elite of Roman administrators, personally

(2021). Spinoza’s Ethics. Women's Writing. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The cry: a new dramatic fable. Women's Writing. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Letter to My Father: A Memoir. Life Writing. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Art in the Stories of Jhumpa Lahiri. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. Ahead of Print.

summary: Recent scholarship has repeatedly challenged the notion that Greek warfare was ever characterized by rule-bound battles in open ground. This article builds on those challenges by asking to what extent a morality that favored pitched battle affected military thinking at all. Some appeals to such values survive from the Classical period, but they are ambiguous, ineffectual, and often contested

summary: This article examines the role of lead in curse tablets. After surveying the status quaestionis, it suggests that the preference for lead in curse-writing had little to do with the material's cheapness or obtainability, and everything to do with its social utility and physicality. Lead appealed for use in curse-writing because of the material's association with acts of fastening and restraining;

summary: This paper provides a new interpretation of Plato's Critias by focusing on the character Critias and the significance of depicting his relationship with Socrates in the historical context of the Athenian democratic restoration. A comparison between the Critias and the relevant portions of the Republic dealing with the economic foundations of the city, appropriate action, philosophical literature

summary: Thousands of people were trafficked around the Mediterranean as a result of Roman conquest. This article seeks to understand who these people were by examining how an individual's standing in their community determined their experience of military defeat. I argue that socio-legal status was key: enslaved people, as opposed to those of free and especially citizen status, were particularly likely

summary: The consensus of modern scholarship is that few Romans voted in elections in the centuriate assembly. Yet this conclusion rests on little evidence. We can gain a clearer picture by looking at the incentives created by the electoral system and Roman social relationships. Focusing on rural citizens of property, this article presents a model of voter behavior and the electoral landscape which

summary: This paper offers a new reading of Catullus's last poem. It argues against the current consensus that Catullus therein parodies both his recipient Gellius and his predecessor Ennius as hackish "anti-Callimacheans." Catullus 116 is rather, on the literal level, an indignant complaint to a false friend and fellow neoteric poet; and, on the figurative level, a programmatic statement of its author's

summary: In Horace's two-stanza ode Montium custos (Carm. 3.22), what is the connection between (stanza 1) Diana, goddess of midwifery and the slave women in childbirth and (stanza 2) Diana's pine tree and sacrifice of a boar to it? The whole line 7, with slant-attacking boar/pig of sacrifice also describes the slant-singing poet, master of the Sabine farm. The metapoetic technique, here called the

summary: Despite the long debate over whether it was composed in the third or fourth century c.e., Heliodorus's Aithiopika has usually been understood through the imperial literary contexts which characterize earlier novels. This article inverts this perspective to explore instead how the novel fits into contemporary late antique considerations about fiction. By reading the Aithiopika against late-fourth

ABSTRACT This paper relates to my introduction to Brian Shoesmith and my involvement in his research project on satellite television and the audience reception of the Australian Television International channel in Surabaya, Indonesia in 1993 and 1995. It also discusses the impact of Brian and his research on the development of the Department of Communication in Airlangga University in Surabaya and

(2021). Magical realism and literature. Textual Practice. Ahead of Print.

Abstract Uno de los aspectos de El castigo sin venganza que más discrepancias han suscitado entre los críticos gira en torno a la pretendida virtud del Duque de Ferrara. Basando mi análisis en recientes teorías neo-aristotélicas sobre la ética de la virtud, en las ideas de Aristóteles, Tomás de Aquino y pensadores de la época de Lope, sostengo que el Duque no llega a adquirir nunca el hábito de la

Abstract En este artículo se analizan las representaciones de la autoría femenina ofrecidas en las antologías y apuntes bibliográficos publicados desde mediados del siglo xix hasta comienzos del siglo XX. En primer lugar, se estudia la Galería de la literatura española (1846) de Antonio Ferrer del Río como un texto que subraya el apartamiento de las escritoras de la figura ideal del autor. Posteriormente

Abstract This article explores the affective resonances of three stories from Mariana Enriquez’s Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016). Although fear is the predominant emotion evoked in Enriquez’s brand of political horror, there is considerable depth and complexity to her stories, in terms of both the emotional content portrayed in them and the readerly solicitation staged through the narratives’

(2021). Reviews of Books. Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 319-333.

Abstract In 1940, the British Council founded its first Spanish branch by launching a new school for children as well as a rich cultural programme to counter Nazi and Fascist propaganda in Madrid. Secretly, it also supported the British Intelligence Services’ wartime effort. Based on new sources, the current article (the second in a two-part series) examines these activities in the early 1940s. It

Abstract La expresión ‘asidero plástico’ la usa Cernuda para describir el anclaje del poema en los sentidos y hacerlo ‘verdad’, experiencia. La ‘falacia patética’, de Ruskin, sería el enmascaramiento sentimental de esa ‘verdad’. Todo apuntaría a una objetivación de la ‘experiencia emotiva’ sin nombrarla directamente, construida en la subjetividad de quien lee. Será experiencia más proceso: ‘el proceso

Abstract This paper studies the relationship between gender, sexuality and nation in late Francoist popular culture, exploring and comparing different and conflicting representations of masculinity and femininity. The analysis focuses mostly on how popular film comedy engages with existing sexological discourses disseminated through medical essays or sex manuals. In this sense, attention is particularly

Abstract The British Council opened its first office in Madrid in 1940. It included an English language institute, a cultural centre and a children’s school. Based on new sources, this research (published as two separate articles in consecutive issues) examines the Council’s three-pronged work in wartime Spain: education, intelligence support activities and cultural diplomacy. It illuminates the crucial

ABSTRACT In the judgement book of 1604 from the province of Småland in the south of Sweden, there is an interesting case, where a thief named Jon is called an amblet. The only possible explanation for the word is that it is an appellative use of the name Hamlet in the form it has in the Saxo tradition: Amlethus etc. Since it is presented as an extenuating circumstance that Jon ‘was an amblet’ when

Abstract: This essay argues for the centrality of romance to our ideas of literary history from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. It considers the enduring appeal of this form in enabling critics to do two things at once: conceive of history as a social totality, registered across time in the felt language of poetry, and attend to the particularities of time and place in which any given romance

Abstract: The French Revolution was a moment when new conceptions of history and historiography were emerging and competing. The 1793 play, L’Heureuse Décade, uniquely stages the process by which a new history is created; it represents not the spectacle of history or current events, but the spectacle of a new historiography in the making. The play also supplies the French stage with its first historian-hero

Abstract: This essay argues first that we understand fictional characters as covertly “famous”: that is, known (via the distribution of print or other mass media) to cohorts of people far larger than the usual scale of human acquaintance. Second, it claims that there is an erotic component to this secret fame, one that reaches an unlikely pinnacle of self-aware power in Jane Austen’s last completed

Abstract: In a seldom-read 1956 contribution to his “little mythology of the month” series, Roland Barthes addresses the image of the intellectual promulgated by Pierre Poujade’s populist screed J’ai choisi le combat. The owner of a book and stationery store who created the right-wing Defense Union of Shopkeepers and Craftsmen in 1953, Poujade penned his book to defend the “common man” against the

Abstract: This essay draws out affinities between the ideas of Axel Honneth, one of the most prominent figures of the present-day Frankfurt School, and Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon’s widely lauded memoir about his estrangement from his working-class origins. It argues that Returning to Reims’ portrait of a divided self casts a fresh light on the politics of recognition—its conflicting dimensions

Abstract: Anne bradstreet, early modern poet, was probably not an arsonist. She is more famous for her ardor, which she preserved in poems, paradigmatic artifacts of the literary. These artifacts, however, also preserve her intellectual labor discerning the conditions that might have led her or other women in an early modern settler colony to consider flaming destruction. Nevertheless, her poems also

Abstract: Within Iran, the transformation in the Islamic legal understanding of the foreign (ajnabi) into a political concept was accelerated by the encounter with Europe during the nineteenth century. The classical Iranian understanding of otherness as a domain fully demarcated from the self was replaced by an internalized other, resulting in what we call here the xenological uncanny. This article

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Joel M. Childers is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University. He writes on literary criticism and the social sciences, with a particular interest in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Rita Felski is John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Niels Bohr Professor

The article examines the multilingual poetics of Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, focusing on the historically strained relations between English and India’s other languages. As a contribution to the project of “unforgetting English” (Walkowitz, 2015), the close reading of Roy’s novel reveals how English is construed and posited as a language within India’s multilingual environment

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This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities (civitates). Due to the citizens’ moral failings

The verse epitaph of Pope Honorius (625–38) inscribed at St Peter’s in Rome and the eulogy of the same pope that Jonas of Bobbio included in his Vita Columbani et discipuli eius (composed 639–42) share language and expressions sufficient to demonstrate that Jonas must have been familiar with Honorius’ epitaph at the time he composed the Vita’s obituary. This fact has implications for both Jonas’ biography

The Royal Prayerbook contains a variety of entries aimed at staunching a flow of blood, three of which are related by a shared poetic motif. An examination of the elements in these texts suggests that all three are a meditation on a scene from the gospels, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood. This article argues these texts were compiled in a learned milieu, probably within a female or

This article examines the office of advocate at the abbey of Saint‐Martin of Tours. It studies what was regionally distinctive about its emergence there in the late ninth century and suggests a reason for the office’s demise in the early tenth century. In doing so, it draws out the important discursive shifts which were part and parcel of both the setting‐up and the fading‐away of Carolingian ‘reform’

The law‐text known as I Æthelstan is commonly accepted as the earliest evidence of a legal obligation to pay tithes in England. As it turns out, it might not be. The extant Old English version of I Æthelstan does indeed legislate for tithe payments. However, this version is an eleventh‐century revision of the original text, probably penned by Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023). As I will argue in