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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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Et in Arcadia ego. The Melancholy Idyll of Slovak Romantic Writers [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2018 The present paper outlines the basic assumptions of the research into the idyll in the discourse of Slovak Romanticism. The idyll is defined within the context of recent theoretical knowledge – such as the mode, the semantic attribute of the literary ...
Magdalena Bystrzak
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Genèse et thématologie de Don Quichotte : l'inflexion des chapitres VI et VII
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Résumé Cet article examine la genèse de Don Quichotte à partir d'une analyse thématologique des chapitres VI et VII de la première partie, afin de réévaluer l'hypothèse critique selon laquelle l'œuvre aurait pu être initialement conçue comme un roman bref.
José Rienda Polo
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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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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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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Drawing on theories of ritual as performative and transformative, this flash tip offers practical suggestions and examples for creating a ritual of writing otherwise, including companion texts, sensory and material cues to frame the ritual practice, writing collectively, and attitudes we might articulate and cultivate.
Madelyn Prevost
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Experiences of Melancholy in Rose Tremain’s Novel Music And Silence
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2011 The current paper shows how the experiences of melancholy are represented in Music and Silence (1999), a postmodernist historical novel by Rose Tremain.
Aleksejs Taube
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