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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
wiley   +1 more source

ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract 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 no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
wiley   +1 more source

The Russian-language Literature — A Clash of Cultures

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2015
The author introduces the differentiation of the Russian literature as the national one and of Russian-language literature as the multi-ethnic one though written in Russian.
doaj  

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