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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

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
wiley   +1 more source

Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry

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Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
wiley   +1 more source

Reading fiction in early adolescence predicts the ability to imagine our own future. [PDF]

Psychon Bull Rev
Cohen AL, Buttrick N.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Horror Fandom, morbid curiosity, and psychological resilience amid war conflict and economic crisis among university students in Lebanon: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Affan R, Yammine M, Karam M, Abboud M, Assaad S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Discours de la honte et de l'entre‐deux linguistique et culturel chez les écrivains « transfuges » Annie Ernaux, Nicolas Mathieu et Lori Saint‐Martin

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Résumé En s'appuyant sur la théorie bourdieusienne, le présent article se donne pour objectif d'analyser comment le « transfuge de classe » devient un élément incontournable et un moyen primordial d'ascension sociale dans La Place (1983) d'Annie Ernaux, Connemara (2022) de Nicolas Mathieu et Pour qui je me prends (2020) de Lori Saint‐Martin. L'étude de
Anna Ledwina, Dumitra Baron, Domingo Pujante González   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme social isolation risk is associated with story-driven, strategic and cooperative-first gameplay preferences. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Confessor B, Perusquía-Hernández M, Liew K, Siriaraya P, Matsuda Y, Kimura E, Hirao Y, Uchiyama H, Kiyokawa K.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City

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Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Dubourg E, Thouzeau V, Borredon Q, Baumard N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source