"Mutual relations of dialogue, parody, contestation" : writing Nabokov's life in the age of the author's death [PDF]
textIn her introduction to a special issue of the South Central Review on literary biography published in 2006, Linda Leavell writes, "Many would trace the disdain for literary biography—in both senses of the word “literary”—back through Roland Barthes’s
Leisner, Keith David
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Materiality and Meaning in Literary Studies [PDF]
Recently, non- and paraverbal properties of literary texts at the level of documentary inscription (i.e. materiality), seen individually or as aspects of a so-called ‘material text’, that is, the union of materiality and verbal sign systems, received an ...
Rockenberger, Annika
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Cell wall target fragment discovery using a low‐cost, minimal fragment library
LoCoFrag100 is a fragment library made up of 100 different compounds. Similarity between the fragments is minimized and 10 different fragments are mixed into a single cocktail, which is soaked to protein crystals. These crystals are analysed by X‐ray crystallography, revealing the binding modes of the bound fragment ligands.
Kaizhou Yan +5 more
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Layers of Tradition in Lilla Bulyovszky’s Travelogue
The paper offers an analysis of Lilla Bulyovszky’s Norwegian travelogue, published in 1866. An important context for the interpretation is the socio-historical connections of the author’s biography, particularly her conflicts concerning gender and ...
Kucserka Zsófia
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Weeping in the Face of Fortune: Eco-Alienation in the Niger-Delta Ecopoetics
Scholarship on Niger Delta ecopoetry has concentrated on the economic, socio-political and cultural implications of eco-degradation in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of the South-South in Nigeria, but falls short of addressing the trope of eco ...
Abba A. Abba, Nkiru D. Onyemachi
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Language, Visuality and Representation of Nigeria - China Relations in Nigerian Digital Space
Nigeria – China relationship has witnessed significant upsurge in the last decade. The budding relationship however continues to attract diverse perceptions as reflected in digital spaces.
Paul Onanuga, Victoria O. Gbadegesin
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Diversity and complexity in neural organoids
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
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Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of 'Der Neue Pitaval'
The paper presents the digital corpus of Der Neue Pitaval (1842–1890), a 60-volume collection of 570 German-language criminal case studies. Edited by Julius Eduard Hitzig and Willibald Alexis, the Pitaval combines legal and literary narrative styles to ...
Katharina Herget, Thomas Weitin
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The Modality of the Textual Institutionalisation of Literary Studies: Towards a Sociology of Literature [PDF]
This paper aims to present a sociology of literary studies that is distinguished from the sociology of literature in that its focus is on literary studies as a social practice rather than as a socio-cultural institution: how literary studies is ...
Soh-young Chung
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