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Somerset Maugham's Failings

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

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

Conjunctive Formations in Old English and Modern English

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  This paper aims to explore the formation and ordering principles of constituents in reduplicative and conjunctive formations in both Old English (OE) and Modern English (ME). By comparing the conjunctive relations in these two language eras, we seek
Basima Othman Mahmood, Rashwan Ramadan Salih   +1 more
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Self-Rapists, Adulterers and Unrelenting Inquisitors – How Bogusław Butrymowicz and Edmund Cięglewicz Introduced Aristophanic Comedy into Polish Reading Culture

Classica Cracoviensia, 2017
Self-Rapists, Adulterers and Unrelenting Inquisitors – How Bogusław Butrymowicz and Edmund Cięglewicz Introduced Aristophanic Comedy into Polish Reading Culture In this article, I would like to reflect on the question of the introduction of Old Attic
Olga Śmiechowicz
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Empty Referential Subjects in Old English Prose: A Quantitative Analysis [PDF]

English Studies, 2013
As Present-Day English with but a few exceptions requires fully overt referential subject pronouns in finite clause structures, the occurrence of empty referential pronominal subjects at the Old English stage of the language is notable and intriguing.
openaire   +3 more sources

On Not Being Stuck: Changing Humanities in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century Britain: The Lorna Sage Lecture, 2025

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Helen Small
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Battling the devil: St Margaret in the Early Middle English Seinte Margarete

Filologia Germanica
St Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular female saints in medieval England and a considerable number of both Latin and vernacular versions of her legend originated or circulated in England from the Old English Martyrology up to Caxton’s Golden
Claudia Di Sciacca
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