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Robert Duncan on Charles Baudelaire: Towards a Poetics of Infection

Odisea, 2017
: This paper argues for a poetics of infection in Groundwork: In the Dark, where Robert Duncan seems to be contaminated by the language, titles, quotations and tone of malaise of Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil.
Leticia Pérez Alonso
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A Jacket Not Worth Looking At: Shipboard Boredom aboard Herman Melville’s Neversink

European Journal of American Studies, 2022
This article reads Herman Melville’s White-Jacket as an exploration of shipboard boredom, which oscillates between mechanized labor (tedium) and periods of idleness at sea (ennui).
Arturo Corujo
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Ascendancy and the 1798 Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)

XVII-XVIII, 2013
The 1798 Irish rebellion is a ubiquitous presence in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Ennui, yet the novels’ most striking commentary about the insurrection and its causes is often concealed in their most innocuous passages.
Timothy McInerney
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Spleen, tedio y ennui. El valor indiciario de las emociones en la literatura del siglo XIX

Revista de Literatura, 2012
El artículo se propone explorar las implicaciones semánticas del concepto de tedio a través de un análisis comparado de la novela Flavio, de Rosalía de Castro, y del cuento «The Man of the Crowd», de Edgar Allan Poe. Al igual que el spleen y el ennui, el
María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar
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Censoring Perversion

Groundings, 2015
This article considers JG Ballard’s seminal novella Crash and its film adaptation by David Cronenberg within the tradition of lascivious, subversive literary utopias.
Klara Kofen
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Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s syndrome in “Infinite Jest”

Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions and sensations arousing from the body for the reviving of the self in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of choices and the external stimuli
Ana Chapman
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Quatro abordagens do cotidiano nos quadrinhos contemporâneos

ArtCultura, 2019
Este artigo discute a crescente presença do cotidiano em quadrinhos contemporâneos, em que situações comuns e eventos aparentemente insignificantes tomam o lugar dos costumeiros mundos extraordinários e histórias de aventura.
Greice Schneider
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Psychopathologie et poétique de l’« ennui » en France au xixe siècle

Criminocorpus, 2018
At the turn of the 19th century, « weariness » (ennui) acquires, or rather recovers, the meaning of a subjective and painful experience in a strong sense, understood in terms of a void.
Juan Rigoli
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Historicizing Trollope

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2003
Baudelaire declared that contemporary life is the appropriate subject for art. For him, this involved ‘ennui’ and ‘spleen,’ to which Trollope’s great zest and humor stand in opposition.
Ruth apRoberts
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Homes for Canadians (I)

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021
According to Giorgio Agamben, the Greek term for ‘habitual dwelling place,’ or ‘habit,’ is ethos. The rise to prominence in the twentieth century of the modern idea of the suburb, or ‘suburbia,’ held open the door to the potential realization of the ...
Howard David Brian
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