Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis [PDF]
This article explores the possibility of a debate between psychoanalysis and the human sciences and, in particular, between psychoanalysis and psychology.
De Vos, Jan
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’No Poetry, No Reality:’ Schlegel, Wittgenstein, Fiction and Reality [PDF]
Friedrich Schlegel’s remarks about poetry and reality are notoriously baffling. They are often regarded as outlandish, or “poetically exaggerated” statements, since they are taken to suggest that there is no difference between poetry and reality or to ...
Gorodeisky, Keren
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Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michèle Roberts [PDF]
Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts’ fiction has continually returned to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
White, Rosie
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The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration [PDF]
Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A.
Kliś Agnieszka
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Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction
For at least the past several decades, Persian literary scholarship has drawn its conceptual framework largely from the social sciences. Despite several noteworthy exceptions, a tendency to read Persian literature for its sociopolitical content still ...
Samad Alavi
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The relationship between the Aristotelian, Newtonian and holistic scientific paradigms and selected British detective fiction 1980-2010 [PDF]
This thesis examines the changing relationship between key elements of the Aristotelian, Newtonian and holistic scientific paradigms and contemporary detective fiction. The work of scholars including N. Katherine Hayles, Martha A.
Goldsmith, Hilary Anne
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The Dickensian Tropism in Contemporary Fiction
Dickens is a prominent figure in neo-Victorian fiction. Indeed, ‘neo-Dickensian’ features as a sub-category of the neo-Victorian output and largely contributes to the so-called ‘Dickens Afterlife.’ Yet, studies of contemporary fictions overly drawing ...
Georges Letissier
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Know Your Audience: Middlebrow aesthetic and literary positioning in the fiction of P.G. Wodehouse [PDF]
This essay strives to explain Wodehouse’s status as a popular writer, whose work is read with enjoyment by academics, critics and the general reader alike, as resulting from his particular positioning within the literary field, scrutinizing his ...
Einhaus, Ann-Marie
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Fiction and Reality in the Theater, based on the Ideas of Vilém Flusser
The article discusses the relationship of tension between fiction and reality in contemporary theater, based on the concept of performative theater and in relation to the philosophy of Vilém Flusser, using examples of recent staging and based on the ...
Ernesto Gomes Valença
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Distancing Gender in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction
Representations of gender crossing go back to a rich tradition in Hungarian literature. The most conspicuous achievements for performing gender passing on the authorial plane are epitomized in such fictionalized female literary alter egos as Erzsébet ...
Pál Hegyi
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