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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Haunting and the (Im)possibility of Māori Gothic
, 2014 This chapter discusses the conditions of possibility for a media form that could be called ‘Māori Gothic’. It begins with the notion that Māori Gothic is an oxymoron because the embrace of departed spirits in Mātauranga Māori (knowledge of the Māori ...
Kavka, Misha
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Horace Walpole, gothic classicism, and the aesthetics of collection [PDF]
, 2018 Scholars of eighteenth-century literature have long seen the development of the Gothic as a break from neoclassical aesthetics, but this article posits a more complex engagement with classical imitation at the origins of the genre.
Uden, James
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East Meets West: The Duality of Architectural Influences on the Palazzo Ducale
The Owl, 2017 Images of Notre Dame, Chartres Cathedral, and other French models often come to mind as the archetype of Gothic architecture. Yet, the influence of Gothic architecture was still incorporated into architectural designs long after the Middle Ages during ...
Kelly Scandone
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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“‘This horrible patrimony’: Masculinity, War and the Upper Classes in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster.” [PDF]
, 2020 The recent reissue of Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s critically neglected Gothic novel The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) describes it as ‘dated’ but its more conservative elements nevertheless exist alongside a subversive thrust ...
Mercer E
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
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Architectural Histories, 2019 Eighteenth-century French accounts of Gothic churches are testimonies of both negative preconceptions about the Gothic style formed through reading and actual positive experiences of Gothic buildings.
Sigrid de Jong
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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania
Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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