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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
English Literature, 2021 This essay asks why radio host Rush Limbaugh appears in Infinite Jest as president and what this detail suggests about the relationship of the novel to conservative media, the later rise of Donald Trump, and radio’s role in Wallace’s imagination of ...
Severs, Jeffrey
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Shaping Scepticism, Arousing Belief
English Literature, 2014 The visceral responses of theatrical audiences to Othello across time and place clash oddly with the scepticism often ascribed to this play, and famously discussed in Stanley Cavell’s seminal work, Disowning Knowledge (2003).
Marzola, Alessandra
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English Literature, 2021 Although readers are more likely to dwell upon particularly funny, surprising, or disturbing moments in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, the novel contains many instances of breathtaking poeticism. A close reading of a few such lines, hidden gems
Shapiro, Mary
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The Fear of Laughter in Restoration Prose Fiction
English Literature, 2018 This article draws on recent studies on the fear of derisive laughter (or ‘gelotophobia’) in order to relate them to early modern comments on laughter and to the representation of that anxiety in some texts of Restoration prose fiction, and with a ...
Figueroa, Jorge
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“So Shall She Now the Softest Coulours Chuse/To Paint thy Fate & Shadow out thy Woes”
English Literature, 2017 This article will explore the ways in which literary forms empower emotional response to public events, using as a case study the wide range of literary texts – published and circulated in manuscript – inspired by the notorious Abergavenny scandal of ...
Quinault, Lucia
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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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Characterization of quantum angular-momentum fluctuations via principal components [PDF]
, 2008 ©2008 The American Physical Society. A.L. acknowledges the support from project No. PR1-A/07-15378 of the Universidad Complutense.We elaborate an approach to quantum fluctuations of angular momentum based on the diagonalization of the covariance matrix ...
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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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