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Queer cryptograms, anarchist cyphers: decoding Dennis Cooper's The marbled swarm: a novel [PDF]
, 2012 Concentrating on Dennis Cooper’s latest work, The Marbled Swarm: A Novel, a fiendishly complex, experimental tale of murder and cannibalism in Cooper’s adopted home city of Paris, I show that both the subject of the text and its formal architecture are ...
Hester, Diarmuid
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KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 217-242, April 2026.Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
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Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality" [PDF]
, 2011 The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays [PDF]
, 2013 The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did not allow for an explicit ...
Fabiszak, Jacek
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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The Danger of Foreignization: Ling Shuhua’s Ancient Melodies [PDF]
, 2017 Lawrence Venuti’s foreignization theory, with its link of translation strategy with power struggle, is one of the most influential theories in translation studies since the 1990s. At the same time, his theory has also been subject to heated debate due to
Liu, Xiaoqing
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The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT The media we consume may shape our cognition, emotion, and behavior. While violent media effects on aggression have been studied extensively, one popular media genre has escaped scrutiny until now: true crime, featuring real stories of assault, murder, or serial killings.
Corinna M. Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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Is There an Invisible Boundary Between the Races at UIUC (specifically FAR)? [PDF]
, 2006 This project aims to answer the following questions: 1) What is the role of perceptions of race in creating social space? 2) What interactions take place between the racial groups?
Barber, Ashanti
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract This paper frames migrant makeshift camps as mobility infrastructures, bridging scholarship on informal dwellings and migration infrastructures with the case of Bihać, a transit city on the Bosnia–Croatia border. The central idea is that grassroots makeshift camps assembled in abandoned buildings or tents play a key infrastructural role in ...
Martino Zibetti (He/Him)
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012 Links between contemporary popular romance and novels of amatory fiction in the eighteenth century have received limited critical attention, but today’s authors of popular romance share significant topics and strategies with those early pioneers of the ...
Kimberly Baldus
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