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English Literature, 2020 The article aims to explore how the supernatural is represented in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), arguing that it reflects Radcliffe’s ideas on the matter, described in her theoretical work On the Supernatural in Poetry
Watson, Zak
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Hopkins’s Poetic Porcupines and the Aesthetic of Taste
English Literature, 2015 Using Friedrich Schlegel’s conceptualisation of the fragment as something beautiful in its own isolated and incomplete yet integral form, «Poetic Porcupines and the Aesthetic of Taste» examines the unfished Hopkins poem as something finished and ...
Nixon, Jude V.
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Peter Blum’s ‘Kaapse Sonette’ and Giochino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi
English Literature, 2016 ‘Kaapse Sonette’ (Cape Sonnets) refers to the nine sonnets which Afrikaans poet Peter Blum (Trieste 1925-London 1990) published in two different books of poetry, Steembok tot Poolsee (Capricorn to Polar Sea) in 1955 and Enklaves van die Lig (Enclaves ...
Voss, Tony
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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire
English Literature, 2020 “Olalla” (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson has usually been neglected by critics interested in late-Victorian culture. Preceding of just a few weeks the publication of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Riccioni, Angelo
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In-between History and Memory: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Fictional World
Critical Literary Studies, 2022 Leslie Marmon Silko, an American Indian writer, is one of the pioneers of literary renaissance in Native American literature. Her works are focused on cultural identity, the Native people’s struggle to preserve their past and culture by means of ...
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A Tempest and The Tempest: Aimé Césaire and Shakespeare
Multicultural ShakespeareThrough an analysis of the play, the article seeks to demonstrate that Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest is a “reinscription” of Shakespeare’s The Tempest as “a drama of rebellion.” It is told from the point of view of “the loser”, Caliban, the “colonized”, who ...
Mythili Kaul
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Shakespeare and Covid Drama in This England (Winterbottom, 2022)
Multicultural ShakespeareThis article considers the significance of different Shakespearean allusions in a political docudrama miniseries This England (2022), directed for Sky by Michael Winterbottom and scripted by Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke. The action focuses on the first
Agnieszka Rasmus
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English Literature, 2018 This article connects John Locke’s concept of uneasiness to Aphra Behn’s poem “On Desire: A Pindarick” and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Behn and Austen offer a corrected reading of Locke’s overtly rationalist ideas.
Hultquist, Aleksondra
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Jonathan Swift: Defeat, Isolation, and the Price of Failed Norms
English Literature, 2015 Starting with Jonathan Swift’s famous letter on the ‘falsity’ of the notion of man as ‘animal rationale’, this article investigates the role of norms and the normative in his works.
Weinbrot, Howard
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Adam Bede, Realism, the Past, and Readers in 1859
English Literature, 2019 This article gives an account of the immediate publication context of George Eliot’s first novel, Adam Bede, in terms of competing opportunities for leisure, anxieties about the reading of fiction, the publishing industry, and the social and political
Marshall, Gail
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