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Norse burial practices and medieval fear of revenants in the myth of Ragnarök Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Arturo Tozzi
After the introduction of the Christian religion, a traumatic shift took place in the Norse approach to death rituals. Transition went with strains between the ancient era of cremation and the new inhumation period. We argue that the myth of Ragnarök, written after Icelandic Christianization, might refer to the Norse mythical past of funeral pyres as opposed to the Christian funeral practices. We provide
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Tense present tense: Nathaniel Rich’s ambivalent temporal rut in Odds against tomorrow Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Narie Jung
This article argues that while an inability to move beyond the present is the root of our growing climate crises, the present is integral to any solutions for these crises. In Odds Against Tomorrow, Nathaniel Rich exposes the causal role of a focus on the present to climate issues and vigorously ridicules both the hedonism of the characters and their various failures to understand the structural complexity
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Future present: cli-fi’s representational challenge Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Simon C. Estok
Time is central to climate change fiction (cli-fi). One of the key challenges of the rapidly evolving genre has to do with bringing the future to the present and retaining a semblance of entertainment while using over-exposed material from the clutter of data and mass media narratives. People are numbed by it all, and offering effective narratives is no easy task. While some cli-fi writers look to
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Representing stream of consciousness in comics: definition and categorization Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Xu Lian
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Electronic literary creation: dialogues through cultural recycling Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Laura Sánchez Gómez
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The time of data. theoretical thinking, statistical thinking Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Alexandre Gefen
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Past present: Coal and Hard Times Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Z. Gizem Yιlmaz
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 survive our crises. The different cultural, geographical, and temporal spaces of coal point to not only the entanglements between human and nonhuman bodies but also to the intersection of different temporalities in the planet’s wider narratives. From this
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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 Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Zuzanna Raczyńska
This article proposes an alternative interpretation—with regard to the current state of research—of Madeline Miller’s Circe as a character claiming her agency. In it, I capitalise on Devi and Khuraijam’s linking witchcraft and agency in Circe as well as Alvin Goldman’s theory of human action. On this basis, I substantiate the thesis that, in Madeline Miller’s Circe, the protagonist claims her agency
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Historical fiction: From historical accuracy to prosthetic memory Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Alicja Bemben
In this article, I contribute to the discussion on the cognitive value of contemporary historical fiction as a means of understanding the past. Although such means typically come from the field of history and philosophy of history, and historical accuracy seems to be the most important means, this work is concerned with historical fiction being an inspiration for an auxiliary means of the sort. Drawing
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A generic mystery: Laura Purcell’s The shape of darkness Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Justyna Jajszczok
Laura Purcell’s 2021 novel The shape of darkness, advertised as a Gothic chiller, is set in Victorian Bath and tells two interlaced stories: one of a silhouette artist whose life is marred by a string of mysterious murders of her customers and the other of a young girl who believes she is a spiritual medium and who helps her sister in fraudulent séances. The novel straddles the space between historical
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Contingency traps: the role of form in creative processes Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Karin Kukkonen
Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life. However, at the same time, these texts often manage to evoke a strong sense in readers that the events they read about could have turned out otherwise. I propose the notion of the “contingency trap” as a conceptual tool to address this theoretical challenge
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Always needed, always hunted. Witches, female healthcare, and the need for a female history in Ami McKay’s The witches of New York Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Nina Marie Voigt
Understanding historical fiction as a hybrid space, both presenting the past and embracing the culture it is written in allows insights into the problems women face within the patriarchal society by setting them at a temporal distance. This paper explores the connections between witches, history, and medical practices in Amy McKay’s The witches of New York. It first looks at how the novel queers history
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Robin Hood and resistance: the spatial ethics of “felaushyp” in A Lytell Gest of Robyn Hode Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Christian Beck
In this article, I argue that the greenwood in the early ballad A Lytell Gest of Robyn Hode constructs a unique subjectivity that can inform contemporary forms of resistance. In contrast to the greenwood, the “civilized,” urban spaces found in the text are populated by corrupt individuals serving corrupt institutions. Robin Hood’s actions in both smooth and striated spaces serve as the spatial foundations
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“You are the spawn of Cain!” Grendel’s mother’s literary appropriations Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Katarzyna Myśliwiec
The paper is devoted to the study of three post-2000 novels appropriating Beowulf, whose common denominator is the amplification and humanization of the figure of Grendel’s mother and the reconstruction of her potential personal history. The paper argues that multiple ambiguities concerning Grendel’s mother in the poem render her a perfect vehicle for exploring modern assumptions concerning monstrosity
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Queering the female writer in screen biofictions: Daphne (2007) and Shirley (2020) Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Barbara Braid
The article focuses on two examples of female lives re-imagined as queer in screen biofiction: Daphne (Beavan, 2007) about Daphne de Maurier, and Shirley (Decker, 2020) about Shirley Jackson. These films are analysed as literary biofictions, that is, fictional revisions of biographies in which the protagonists share names and biographemes with well-known writers. The factuality of these biographemes
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Literary theory between contingency and contiguity: Yakov Druskin’s “Law of Heterogeneity” Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Susanne Strätling
The notion of chance epitomizes the limits and challenges of any theory’s struggle for control over itself as well as over its objects. Although contemporary literary theory has adapted its terminology and conceptual framework in line with the emergence of dynamic, “open forms” (Wölfflin in Principles of art history: The problem of the development of style in later art, Dover Publications Inc, New
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On Beowulf and Ruodlieb: a folkloric context for Hrothgar’s Sermon Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Leonard Neidorf
Though rarely compared, Beowulf and Ruodlieb are two medieval epics composed by speakers of West Germanic languages that exhibit a shared sequence of folktale motifs. In both works, a young man considered unpromising in his youth seeks adventure abroad, serves a magnanimous foreign king well, and returns to his homeland with wealth and wisdom in his possession. In Ruodlieb, the king’s wisdom is imparted
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Communal Pleasure in Jean Rhys’s Fiction Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Qiping Yin
Laura Frost’s The problem with pleasure: Modernism and its discontents has blazed a new trail and annexed the concept of pleasure to the notion of modernism in her reading of Jean Rhys’s fiction. For all her meticulously traced genealogy of pleasure, however, communal pleasure is conspicuously absent. This paper argues against a simplistic generalization of Rhys’s treatment of various kinds of pleasure
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Remembering and forgetting in Sara Collins’ The confessions of Frannie Langton Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Yomna Saber
Set in Jamaica and London in the 1820s, Sara Collins’ debut novel The confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) is a neo-slave historical novel par excellence. In it, Collins shapes and reshapes several subgenres of historical fiction, such as gothic fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery. Facing a trial based on the accusation of killing her master and mistress, Frannie Langton narrates her
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Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Johanna Kluger
As an almost exclusively female-dominated medium, the popular romance novel has, throughout its history, allowed women writers to “amplify their political voice” (Teo, 2016, p. 102), especially when they could not actively participate in politics. Commonly, writers fashion storylines that reflect and process concerns from the real world in a fictional context. Using the Regency Romance as an example
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Adventure and contingency in literary theory Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robert Stockhammer
The relation between adventure and contingency is an ambivalent one. This ambivalence can be described by using a distinction of two aspects already tied together in âventiure (as a French foreign word in German), distinguished by Jacob Grimm as “begebenheit” versus “erzählte geschichte selbst,” rendered as ‘type of event’ versus ‘narrative pattern’ in the terminology of the Munich research group Philology
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The pause button on ecophobia: reflections on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, fifty years in Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Simon C. Estok
One of the reasons that Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek remains very important to the environmental issues we face, even fifty years after its publication, is that it actively rejects the demonizing, anthropomorphizing, gendering, and ecophobic gestures that pervade so much of our understandings and representations of the natural environment. Dillard stresses the importance of seeing, and while
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Evolutionary emotion of AI and subjectivity construction in The Windup Girl Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Yuqin Jiang
Artificial intelligence (AI) is man-made with the purpose of serving humans. An emotional machine is designed to meet the demands of human emotion. Science fiction and films provide many stories about the emotional development of AI/robots/androids/clones. This paper argues that there is an evolutionary emotional process for AI and that humans should finally accept the coexistence of humans and AI
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Masochism, literature, and aesthetic form Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Sunggyung Jo
Drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of masochism as an obsession with a perfect form, this essay argues that masochism offers literary critics opportunities to reconsider questions of beauty and form in literature. I use John Keats’s “Lamia,” Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and James Joyce’s “The Dead” as case studies to examine how literary works incorporate masochism
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Introduction: The fifty-year history of Neohelicon, Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, and beyond Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Péter Hajdu, József Pál
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L’Europe des Lumières et les colloques de Mátrafüred Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Daniel-Henri Pageaux
From 1970 to 1988 the small spa town of Mátrafüred and the holiday home of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were the setting for six meetings devoted to “Enlightenment in Hungary, Central and Eastern Europe.” It is to Béla Köpeczi, member of the Academy of Sciences, that this great initiative belongs. The article reports on the major orientations of these meetings organized in a comparative, interdisciplinary
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Epic traditions in Balkan world literature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 David Damrosch
Long focused primarily on the literature of a few major European powers, comparative studies have increasingly been giving substantial attention to writers in smaller countries and using less widely diffused languages. The rich and varied literatures of the Balkans are ideal candidates for renewed attention, but perhaps because of the number and variety of languages involved, there has been little
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The post-memory of the Armenian genocide and the myth of origins in Antonia Arslan’s works Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Franca Sinopoli
This contribution aims to analyse the postmemory of the origins through the work of an Italian author of Armenian descent, Antonia Arslan, and stems from an ongoing research project about “Narrating the Trauma in European Literatures and Cultures” based at La Sapienza University of Rome. I will therefore focus on the link between this research project, which serves as a theoretical framework, and the
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“Monasteri neri”: letteratura ungherese e italiana e scrittura popolare nella Prima Guerra Mondiale Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Cinzia Franchi
The paper “Black Monasteries”: Hungarian and Italian Literature and Popular Writing in the First World War analyzes War literature and the directly related literature about internment camps, both relating to the First World War, which had a different development in Hungary and Italy; however, similar features can be found in them. Regarding these aspects, this essay examines some works, starting from
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The Roman and Viennese indices of prohibited books in Austrian and Bohemian lands under Maria Theresa Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Luka Vidmar
Under Maria Theresa (ruled 1740‒1780), handling books in Austrian and Bohemian lands was largely governed by the Index librorum prohibitorum, which the Catholic Church in Rome started publishing in 1559, and the Catalogus librorum a commissione aulica prohibitorum, which the Court Book Censorship Committee in Vienna published from 1754 onward. Through censorship secularization, the Viennese index gradually
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Censor’s scissors in Croatian literature: Shaping a(n) (inter)national community Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Marina Protrka Štimec
Using some of the best-known examples from Croatian literature, this article examines the influence of censors on shaping the literary field in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. It compares the role of educated censors who supported the development of the literary field in the first decades of nineteenth-century Habsburg Croatia with that of censors
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Irony and sentiment in the literary field: Prešeren’s sonnets and the Slovenian alphabet-censorship war Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Marko Juvan
Restoration censorship forced European Romantic literature to retreat from society and politics into subjective intimacy, fantasy, mythology, history, and exotic places. In addition to conforming to restrictions, however, censorship also led writers to evade its control (pseudonyms, publication abroad, allusive style) and, more rarely, to overt or covert rebellion (petitions, satire, etc.). An example
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Between policing and literary criticism: Habsburg censorship of literature in Lombardy-Venetia Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Daniel Syrovy
The article looks at censors’ statements from the Venice State Archive and asks whether the parallels between censors speaking on literary texts and the mode of literary criticism can be productively analyzed with the help of these archival materials. The Venetian censorship bureau, established in 1814/15 in the context of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and forming part of Habsburg Empire, is a welcome
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Metal cultures, ecocriticism, decolonization, and Tara June Winch’s The Yield Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Iris Ralph
The late arrival of ecocriticism in literary studies in the 1970s attests to what seems to have meant hardly anything at all to literary studies scholars since the birth of literary theory and criticism. What mattered had to be, at the very least, human, or a set of human interests that effectively debased the environment. Ecocriticism, established less than half a century ago, has made inroads on
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Anatomy of the “deathly silence”: Slovenian newspapers in Carniola and the pre-March censorship Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Marijan Dović
The media landscape of the Habsburg Monarchy in the pre-March period was relatively meagre. In Carniola and other Austrian crownlands with a Slovenian population, the opportunities for literary development were limited: this is well evidenced by the ban on the publication of Slavinja in mid-1820 as well as by the many conflicts Krajnska čbelica (‘The Carniolan Bee’) had with censorship in the early
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Who is at the helm? Mary Wollstonecraft’s contribution to the romantic construct of the imagination Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Ágnes Péter
In my essay I pursue the line of inquiry which has recently been proposed by scholars who have reconstructed the historical context of Wollstonecraft’s feminism to bring into sharper focus what can be seen as consistent motives of her thought. Starting out from the thesis of Barbara Taylor that Wollstonecraft’s feminism was deeply rooted in the egalitarian theology of Radical Protestantism (Barbara
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Transcending the national: on worlding the peripheral literatures Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Anton Pokrivčák, Miloš Zelenka
The study is concerned with contemporary theoretical concepts of world literature (“literature of the world”, “worldliness of literature”, “world literary system”, “world literary republic”). Considering the results of the XXII International Congress ICLA/AICL in Macau 2019, it discusses how the concepts are reflected in the Slovenian scholar Marko Juvan´s monograph Worlding a Peripheral Literature
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Théories littéraires et indéfinition de la littérature : pour une ontologie moindre de la littérature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jean Bessière
Literary theories do not offer a unitary definition of literature. This led to the conclusion that such a definition is unnecessary. This lack of a unitary definition is here reconsidered according to the basis of these theories: the ontologies of literature they develop, which they imply and which constitute as many unitary definitions of literature. Three strong ontologies are identified: literature
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Two perceptions of childhood: Alexander Baron (1917-1999) and Howard Jacobson (1942-) Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 William Baker
Alexander Baron’s From the City from the Plough (1948) received high praise as the best fictional record of ordinary British soldiers’ experiences during the Second World War. Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010) won the prestigious Booker Prize for the best novel of the year. In 2022, each author's memoirs were published: Baron’s Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir and Jacobson's Mother’s
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The horror of censorship in fin-de-siècle Hungarian journalism Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Péter Hajdu
The freedom of the press was regarded as an important achievement and valuable heritage of the 1848 revolution in nineteenth-century Hungary. The liberal government after 1867 seldom dreamed of installing censorship; they rather developed more sophisticated, indirect methods to influence the press. However, the government tried to suppress the agrarian movements in early 1898, among other measures
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Metaphorical conceptualization of beauty in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History: translation perspectives Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Yakiv Bystrov, Uliana Tatsakovych
In the article, the principles of the conceptual metaphor theory are applied to translation studies. It provides an overview of Lakoff’s classification of conceptual (orientational, ontological, structural) metaphors and Kövecses’s procedures for image metaphor creation (extension, elaboration, questioning, combining) and discusses their application to analyzing the translation of conceptual metaphors
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Défis et Enjeux d’une historiographie littéraire comparatiste: « Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes » et Neohelicon Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Yves Chevrel
The year 1973 was marked by two important events concerning comparative studies in Europe: the publication of the first volume of a project initiated by the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), a « Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages » (John Benjamins); and the launch of a new journal, the aim of which was the « presentation of epochs, periods, trends and currents
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Metaphors of violence and survival: Primo Levi’s philosophy of chemistry Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Peter Arnds
One of the principal dilemmas Holocaust survivors have faced is how to voice the traumatic memories that haunt them. Although in his seminal Language and Silence George Steiner once claimed that “the world of Auschwitz lies outside speech as it lies outside reason”, the Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi was an obvious exception in having been able to voice his trauma throughout his life by writing
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Strategies for transnational projection through international book fairs Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 M. Carmen Villarino Pardo
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Introduction to the special issue World literature and the strategies of nation-building Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Sándor Hites
The introduction gives a survey of recent developments in cultural nationalism and world literature studies. I argue that these trends have come to tackle the issues of cross-cultural transfers in antithetical directions: While the former highlighted the transnational patterns of national self-fashioning, the latter wanted to reclaim the individual and the particular from all-absorbing globalist commodification
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Art, politics and identity in de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Valentina Monateri
The aim of this paper is to analyze Anne Louise Germaine de Staël’s novel Corinne ou l’Italie (1807) from the point of view of the cultural studies and the visual studies, to shed a light on de Staël’s attempt at promoting the construction of a modern Italian national identity, founded on the arts. The article examines how de Staël’s participation in the Italian nation-building was half linked to her
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Hungarian writers in the interwar USA: the fiction of József Reményi and Áron Tamási Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Péter Hajdu
In the Interwar period, József Reményi (1891–1956) and Áron Tamási (1897–1966) wrote fiction about the experience of Hungarian immigrants in the USA. Reményi immigrated before WWI and made his residence permanent after his naturalization, whereas Tamási moved to the USA in 1923 but returned to his homeland in 1926. The paper contrasts their personal experiences as immigrants in America, discusses their
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Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities as a postmodern parody of The travels of Marco Polo Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia, Bibi Marzieh Ahmadzadeh
The postmodern idea of “return to the origin” of a literary text characterizes almost all literature. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a reconstruction of The Travels of Marco Polo, but despite the strong connections between the two texts, little attempts have been made to apply this intertextual relationship in a reading of Invisible Cities. Identifying such connections could lead to insightful
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La traduction pour la recherche en sinologie : le cas des titres traduits dans Le Siècle des Youên Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Qiang Zhang, Yuqi Ding
Le titre traduit, malgré sa longueur modeste, s’avère comme un lieu de confrontation de différentes stratégies traductives et un révélateur des considérations académiques du traducteur. Dans le présent article, à la lumière de la théorie du skopos, nous avons pour objet d’étude les titres traduits des 100 pièces de théâtre incluses dans la célèbre anthologie littéraire Le Siècle des Youên compilée
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Towards a hermeneutics of the postmodern transnational space: the case of contemporary Australian literature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 José-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla
The work analyses the “spatial turn” in recent Australian literature, which has led to a new transnational orientation in many contemporary Australian narratives. To do so, it frames literary production in terms of spatial cognition and analyses spatiality and cognition as presented by several scholars in several realms. This theoretical introduction is followed by a more practical examination of recent
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Sounds national: mediating the ballad in nineteenth-century Scotland and Transylvania Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Veronika Ruttkay
When Transylvanian bishop János Kriza published Vadrózsák [Wild roses], his collection of Székely folklore in 1863, he was soon to be hailed as “the Hungarian Percy.” The ballads seemed to provide a solid foundation for literary nation-building and their significance was confirmed by rival claims of Romanian cultural nationalism, leading to the so-called “Wild rose controversy” or Heidenrösleinkrawall
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Venezia, i fratelli Zrínyi e la causa magiara: uno sguardo alla politica e alla letteratura ungherese della metà del XVII secolo Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Simona Nicolosi
Alla metà del XVII secolo Venezia, già crocevia di scambi commerciali e rosa dei venti della diplomazia internazionale, divenne il centro degli intrighi politici filofrancesi e antiasburgici dell’Ungheria reale in lotta contro il Turco. A Venezia giunsero più volte i fratelli Zrínyi, uomini d’arme e di cultura, non solo per tutelare i propri interessi commerciali e per stabilire contatti con le accademie
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Cosmopolitanism and cosmo-poethics: the cultural migrations of a ‘concept’ Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Silvana Carotenuto
The paper deals with the interest nowadays played by the concept of cosmopolitanism in contemporary schools of critical thought through different and interconnected perspectives. The article reads some deconstructive, culturalist and postcolonial rewritings of the Kantian notion of cosmopolitanism, with a focus on the network of ‘refuge-cities’ functioning on global cooperation, as offered by Jacques
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Framing, rewriting, and reception in world literature: the case of Wolf Totem Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Yanqiu Cui, Yang Bai
When world literature is seen as a product of translation and circulation and as a mode of reading, new world literature attributes, other than literariness, can be inferred, such as relevance to readers, a combination of cultural peculiarity and universality, and accessibility. A case study of Wolf Totem reveals that these attributes can explain how commercial publishers frame, translators rewrite
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Between nation, post-empire, and world-literature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Marco Bucaioni
African Lusophone literatures are largely a Portuguese product: the very construction of literary corpora though book editing and printing was mainly led by Portuguese publishers before and after independence. Other non-African institutions (universities, literary agents, critics) were largely responsible for that process of canonization in the Portuguese-speaking world, with repercussions in Africa
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Representations of Istanbul at the intersection of modern Turkish literature and world literature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Ayşegül Turan
As the cultural capital of both the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey, Istanbul has assumed a central role in the literary imagination of the cultural legacy of the imperial past and the modern nation-state. When we consider Turkish literary history, construction of a national literary tradition reveals a close engagement with the West and Western modernity, often resulting in epistemological and
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Worlding in Georgi Gospodinov’s There, where we are not Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Mihaela P. Harper
This article proposes that rather than a concern with safeguarding a national identity, Georgi Gospodinov’s poetry collection There, where we are not (2016) exposes the relationship of self and world as coextensive and mutually constitutive. His poems undertake the remaking of the world as they reconfigure the self with language at the heart of this undertaking—words and meanings in flux, at play in
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Rendering the unsayable: unnatural acts of narration in koan literature Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Amiao Wu
A narrative approach to Zen texts remains largely under-researched due to the fact that Zen enlightenment is claimed to be a direct, unmediated experience beyond words. This article attempts to explore how literary Zen renders the unsayable by drawing on unnatural narrative theory. Because the unnatural proliferates in koan texts, an exploration of their narrative mode may expect to do justice to their
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The Gothic aesthetic in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes Neohelicon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Junjie Qi