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Controversies in Selecting Nobel Laureates: An Historical Commentary Marshall A. Lichtman
There is universal agreement that the Nobel Prizes, given to individuals who have made an extraordinarily notable contribution to humankind in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, are the most prestigious ...
Marshall A. Lichtman
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Post-Millennium Nobel Literature Prizes in the Context of Global Literary Trends
Globalization has intensely affected the leading art of literature that has, for centuries, deployed languages to discharge a pivotal role in the construction of national cultures.
Fethi Demir, Nahide Ece Süslü
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Cały ten zgiełk. O wczesnych reakcjach na uhonorowanie Olgi Tokarczuk Literacką Nagrodą Nobla
The paper discusses selected reactions to the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk. The author focuses on the dispute about the legitimacy and justification of the Swedish Academy’s decision, highlighting the sceptical opinions, in some ...
Dariusz Nowacki
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Louise Glück: Mythological Feminism and an Attempt to Overcome Antagonism [PDF]
For many people the fact that Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was a complete surprise. Ian Probstein comments on the judges’ decision and reminds about the poet’s “CV” that includes National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize,
Ian Probstein
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On the French perception of Ivan Bunin in 1933 [PDF]
The receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature by Ivan Bunin (the first of the Russian authors) in 1933 not only became an important event in the writer’s fate and Russian émigré life, but also was widely responded in the European (primarily French) press.
Alexandre Stroev
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Mortality and immortality : the Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity [PDF]
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which extra status could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of
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Complexités des prix littéraires et littérature française ou en français
In the French « literary nation », prices proliferate in what Sylvie Ducas (2006) designates as an economy of prestige based, on the one hand, on mythologies associated with writers and, on the other, on ways of defining « literary value ».
Marie-Manuelle da Silva, Eduarda Keating
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The Nobel Year of I.A. Bunin. (Following diaries and family letters) [PDF]
This article draws on the diaries and correspondence of Ivan Bunin and his closest associates to trace the course of the year before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which represented the peak of recognition both for Bunin's own literary ...
Tatiana Dvinyatina
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2001 is the centenary year of the Nobel Prizes. It was in 1901 that these prizes were first awarded. What is the origin of this international prize which covers physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature and peace?
Michel Spiesser
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What Does (a Nasty) Woman Want? [PDF]
In this video essay I have juxtaposed material from three films about female desire – made by women at different historical moments in time, in different countries.
Agnieszka Piotrowska
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