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The Comforting Power of Kitsch. The (Esthetic) Meanders of Holocaust Literature
The paper is an attempt at outlining the esthetics of kitsch in Holocaust literature. On the basis of Abraham Moles’ and Saul Friedländer’s distinctions, the author analyses works of fiction, Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Littel’s The ...
Aleksandra Ubertowska
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Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature [PDF]
This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium.
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The Textual Ecology of Christine Montalbetti’s Journée américaine
Christine Montalbetti’s 2009 novel, Journée américaine, depicts a road trip, as Donovan travels from Oklahoma to visit his college friend, Tom Lee, who lives on a ranch in Colorado. While the road trip provides a basic structure for the narrative, as the
Anne McConnell
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ORALITY AS THE REPRESENTATION OF MADNESS IN THE POEM HOWL BY ALLEN GINSBERG
This paper examines the characteristics of orality as the representation of madness in the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Orality and madness are two major aspects of Beat literary tradition.
Randy Ridwansyah
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The Phenomena of Transculturalism and Translingualism in Contemporary Literature [PDF]
The Phenomena of Transculturalism and Translingualism in Contemporary ...
Magdalena Roguska-Németh
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Post-postmodernists can’t jump
Il contributo intende analizzare la rappresentazione del basket in “Vanilla Dunk” di Jonathan Lethem. L’ipotesi che si intende dimostrare è che l’autore usi il basket per orchestrare una riflessione meta-letteraria sull’eredità del postmodernismo ...
Daniele Giovannone
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Czesław Miłosz’ American Experience in Światło dzienne (Daylight)
Miłosz’s volume Światło dzienne (Daylight, 1953) is conventionally read by critics as the political poetry deeply engaged with history. The article offers a corrective to this traditional reading by interpreting the volume as an interplay of European and
Ewa Kołodziejczyk
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The sublime in contemporary representations of the origin
This article explores the relationships between the contemporary representations of the origin and the expressive forms of the sublime. On the one hand, the origin forms an archetype/s linked to the genesis or creation, but it is also characterized by a ...
Chiara Lombardi
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Os Modernismos e o sentido do contemporâneo em língua portuguesa [PDF]
O percurso dos Modernismos em língua portuguesa foi-se cumprindo através de uma série de contemporaneidades e movimentos de encontro e de desencontro muito significativos, alguns dos quais deixando no ar uma interrogação ainda hoje pertinente e que terá ...
Sousa, Rui
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Recycling a Mixed Language: Posha in Turkey
We provide a sketch grammar of a new bilingual mixed language based on data gathered through interaction with its last native speakers. The language, which we call Posha of Çankırı, is spoken in central Turkey.
Melike Uzum +2 more
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