The Repertoire Politics of Mamontov’s Enterprise: Francophilia, Wagnerism and the Nationalist Crusade [PDF]
Revue des études slaves, 2013 Moscow Private Opera was one of Russia’s most prominent and innovative artistic institutions of the late 1890s. Yet, it still had to survive in Russia’s harsh theater market, dominated by the powerful Imperial Theaters backed by the court, rocked by the ...
Olga Haldey
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Paris or Weimar? Hungarian Writers’ and Intellectuals’ Early Dilemmas in the Construction of their War Culture During WWI [PDF]
Revue des études slaves, 2017 In his famous “Paris or Weimar”, Béla Balázs broke off with Paris and the francophilie of his generation. He was not the only one to do it : in the literary journals known for their French orientation as A Hét or Nyugat, or in the daily Világ, authors ...
Eszter Balázs
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Xvii-xviiiIn eighteenth-century England, only a small fraction of reports of sexual violence resulted in prosecutions. Although cases involving men from the monied or titled orders were extremely rare, there are nevertheless some instances in which middling and ...
Sara Leuner
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Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paul Morand and Rumania
Viatica, 2023 The ‘Great Trudge’ of 1933-1934 allowed Patrick Leigh Fermor to discover Rumania, which would later be evoked in Between the Woods and the Water (1986) and The Broken Road (2013).
Gavin Bowd
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Admiration to Intimacy: Versailles and the English, from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2020 More than any other foreigners, the English were fascinated by Versailles. Fifty per cent of foreign books on Versailles before 1789 were in English.
Philip Mansel
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Fernando Pessoa – germanófilo ou aliadófilo? Um debate com João de Barros que não veio a público [PDF]
Pessoa Plural, 2014 Nos anos iniciais da Primeira Guerra Mundial, a vida política portuguesa esteve centrada na dramática opção entre a intervenção militar ao lado dos Aliados e a neutralidade.
Barreto, José
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980)
Transatlantica, 2020 The article explores a corpus of Hollywood Westerns spanning a fifty-year period between 1931 and 1980 in which Frenchwomen are prominent agents on the Western frontier. It suggests that while the American film industry has had a long-standing esteem for
Lara Cox
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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]
, 2020 Empirical work on motivated reasoning suggests that our judgments are influenced to a surprising extent by our wants, desires and preferences (Kahan 2016; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Molden and Higgins 2012; Taber and Lodge 2006). How should we evaluate
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From the national context to its margins : when the world used literature to respond to the Great War [PDF]
, 2017 By shedding light on some original responses to the Great War that are today hardly known, and by asking the same questions of many works written in contexts which were radically different, this STTCL special issue advocates for a genuinely comparative ...
Bianchi, Nicolas, Garfitt, Toby
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A Discordant Voice from the Trenches: Juan José de Soiza Reilly's War Chronicles [PDF]
, 2017 The First World War represented a deep crisis of the European civilization that called into question the values and certitudes of the Belle Époque society. Trenches became the symbol of the dehumanization produced by a conflict that marked a watershed in
Tato, María Inés
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