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

“…This paper analyzes what may be called Olympic Internationalism as a framework for comparing literatures in the early twentieth century. Specifically, it…”
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood by Angeloch, Dominic

“…The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost…”
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A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl by Ma, Qianyi

“…Fluidity invigorates a utopian home in Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002). In the novel, the fishlike lesbian couple cyclically…”
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Aestheticism, desire, and morality: Revisiting Wilde's Dorian Gray through Tanzer's lesbian reimagining by Poorghorban, Younes

“…This paper examines the interplay of aestheticism and morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Molly Tanzer's reimagining, Creatures of Will…”
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Rhetorik und Schriftbildlichkeit von literarischen Pantomimen by Tolksdorf, Nina

“…Zusammenfassung Da sich die Pantomime als sogenannte „wortlose Kunst“ ihrer Verschriftlichung eigentlich entzieht, sind einige Texte der Pantomime um 1900…”
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Where is “that American Joy”?: Ibi Zoboi's American Street (2017) as a Twenty‐First‐Century Political Novel about the Limits of the Haitian/American Dream by Roldán‐Sevillano, Laura

“…A product of American exceptionalism, the myth of the American Dream has always defended that the United States is the nation of upward mobility par…”
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The esthetics of ethical realism: Representing the war dead in Keith Douglas's “Vergissmeinnicht” by Demir, Elif

“…This paper examines Keith Douglas's “Vergissmeinnicht” through the concept I term “esthetics of ethical realism” to describe Douglas's approach to representing…”
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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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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker by Elander, Astrid

“…For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a…”
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‘To enlarge everything as a poet’: Drama and history in John Marston's The Wonder of Women, or, The Tragedie of Sophonisba by Zirak‐Schmidt, David Hasberg

“…This article advances two arguments about Marston's use and appropriation of history in The Wonder of Women, or, The Tragedie of Sophonisba. First, it argues…”
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Postmodern metadrama in Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter by Kolahjooei, Farzad

“…This paper explores Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter as a postmodern metadrama. I will take parody as an umbrella term under which various other…”
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Don DeLillo's descent into posthuman anxieties in Zero K and The Silence by Suyoufie, Fadia F., Dagamseh, Abdullah M.

“…This study provides an exponential reading of the (re)presentation of posthuman technology in relation to human anxieties in Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016), a…”
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Leta Semadeni's Romansh‐German poetry: Poetic praxis between languages by McClelland, Richard

“…Swiss poet Leta Semadeni's award‐winning literary work is shaped in and through her bilingualism. Her poetry combines her ‘mother tongue’, the Romansh idiom…”
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Life criticism and De Quincey's ethical concern over the aestheticiability of murder by Duan, Yingjie, Tian, Junwu

“…The self‐reflexive tendency in De Quincey's seemingly Kantian aestheticization of murder allows some leeway in deciphering his underlying ethical concerns. As…”
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A narrative of arrival and return in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers by Gasztold, Brygida

“…Imbolo Mbue's novel Behold the Dreamers offers a conscious contextualizing of the movement back to the homeland by those who arrive uninvited and face the…”
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The children “without stories”: Autism, the parent perspective, and narrative triangulations in contemporary French and Norwegian literature by Warberg, Silje Haugen

“…This article presents an analysis of the French author Tran Minh Huy's memoir Un enfant sans histoire ( A Child Without Story , 2022) and two Norwegian novels:…”
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Beyond brotherhood: Elena Ferrante's politics of friendship in the Neapolitan novels by Refsum, Christian

“…This article examines how Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, beginning with L'amica geniale (2011, My Brilliant Friend ), engage with the politics of…”
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The reception of María de Zayas in nineteenth‐century Britain by Medina Calzada, Sara

“…This article examines the reception of the Spanish novelist María de Zayas (1590–after 1647) in nineteenth‐century Britain. At the time, Spanish literature…”
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Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle by Sagot, François

“…To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must…”
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A child of uprootedness and transplantation: Japanese American literature and its road to ethnic recognition by Jarmołowicz‐Dziekońska, Małgorzata

“…This paper, focusing on the development of Japanese American literature, explores autobiography and memoir both as genres and a tangible means of coming to…”
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