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Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos: Abject Transgression in Batman Returns, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 184-190, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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William Morris, a Transcultural Artist and Man of Letters

Linguaculture, 2020
William Morris is extremely famous for his career as a designer and one of the founders of the whole movement of the Arts and Crafts in Late Victorian England.
Isabelle Gadoin
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Analysis of Gothic Revival churches designed by Stanislaw Majerski located in Podkarpacie District

E3S Web of Conferences, 2018
The main purpose of this article was to perform an analysis of the geometric characteristics for Gothic Revival churches located in the Podkarpacie District.
Gosztyła Marek, Lichołai Rafał
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Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth‐Century Business Practice

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 149-176, June 2025.
Abstract Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous.
Caroline Stanford
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Les édifices néogothiques parisiens et leurs verrières : églises et chapelles catholiques

In Situ, 2012
Despite the interest elicited by 19th century religious art over the past thirty years, Paris has lost much of its 19th century religious stained glass. It was urgent to carry out an inventory of what remains.
Martine Callias Bey
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Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel

Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that literary festivals are crucial agents in the contemporary global literary landscape, actively shaping the ‘global novel’ and the ‘global writer’. It contends that traditional literary criticism has understudied the role of cultural market agents like festivals, emphasizing instead the globalization of the novelistic ...
Ana Gallego Cuiñas
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Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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‘MORTAL FEAST’: Cannibal Capitalism Meets Covid‐19 in the Urban Peruvian Amazon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 229-245, March 2025.
Abstract This article presents a surrealist urban political ecology of cannibal capitalism in the zoonotic city. It does so through an account of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, which was the worst‐hit city in the world during this initial wave. Iquitos embodies multiple dimensions of zoonotic urbanization
Japhy Wilson
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Pointed Arches, Papist Danger. The Echoes of the Debate on the Church Architecture in the Victorian Novel

Sacrum et Decorum, 2011
In English culture Gothic architecture enjoyed ambiguous reputation: on one hand, it was obviously connected with pre-Reformation times and therefore suspect.
Monika Mazurek
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