Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…The paper clarifies how Roth and other writers in (or immediately before) the 1920s developed such concepts, and how Benjamin’s The Arcades Project builds on these writers. …”
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Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures by Aurélie JOURNO

“…Building on recent research around digital cultural production in Africa (Ligaga, Adenekan, Nyabola), my paper seeks to engage with digital media and online spaces — blogs, social media — in relation to contemporary literary practices in Africa. …”
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To Read or Not to Read Dickens in the Twenty-First Century: What If He Needed to Be Read Twice?, by Nathalie Jaëck

“…In this paper I try to reassess Dickens by confronting his late novels to those of some eminent Adventure writers, Doyle, Stevenson, but also Conrad. Despite their seemingly widely different styles and literary aims, they all contribute to build, in the second half of the nineteenth century, a coherent and autonomous, though still quite furtive, literary movement, in between Realism and Modernism, a movement that I will attempt to define and circumscribe. …”
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Certain Death: Mike Flanagan’s Gothic Antidote to Traumatic Memory and Other Enlightenment Hang-Overs in <i>Doctor Sleep</i> by Erik Bond

“…This article uses the English Gothic’s eighteenth-century dismantling of male lineage and Enlightenment certainty in Horace Walpole’s <i>The Castle Otranto</i> as a lens for understanding the twenty-first-century commercial popularity of director Mike Flanagan’s Gothic films, particularly <i>Doctor Sleep</i>. Building on Stephen King’s 2013 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film <i>The Shining</i>, Flanagan’s <i>Doctor Sleep</i> establishes a new lineage of male writers who value how the Gothic traditions of irrational emotion and doubt can inspire new realms of knowledge to lessen psychological suffering caused by traumatic lineage. …”
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Islam in Front of the Challenges of Modernity: World Politics, State System, Public Opinion by V. V. Orlov

“…The authors focus on fundamental issues of constitutional law, functioning of supreme state bodies, building of parties and political systems. In the third book of the series the authors review the ideas of contemporary Muslim philosophers, public figures, political writers – both of conservative-fundamentalist and liberal-modernist orientation, basing on numerous facts. …”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…Compared to the autobiographical impulse of today’s travel writers, however, Godwin’s account is maddeningly self-effacing, with virtually no personal details vouchsafed. …”
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What We Didn’t Know a Recipe Could Be: Political Commentary, Machine Learning Models, and the Fluidity of Form in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Recipes by Avery Blankenship

“…In this article, I use document embedding models and a training set of nineteenth-century American recipes to build a pipeline classifier for identifying recipes in the broader nineteenth-century newspaper press. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…I argue that while Gaines draws on this black nationalist image as context and subtext, he diverts attention away from this militant and often violent black nationalist iconography of cross-gendering to figure instead a strong, enduring black woman as a pacifying emblem of cross-racial American nation-building. Opting to follow the lead of other black male cross-gendering writers—most notably James Weldon Johnson, W. …”
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Op soek na'n Mediabestel vir Suid·Afrika by Arnold de Beer

“…It is argued that Tomaselli Is prone to state a debatable point as a "scientific fact" and then proceeds to build a whole theoretical argument on this and similar "facts". …”
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LEXCONN: A French Lexicon of Discourse Connectives by Charlotte Roze, Laurence Danlos, Philippe Muller

“…With respect to discourse organization, the most basic way of signaling the speaker’s or writer’s intentions is to use explicit lexical markers: so-called discourse markers or discourse connectives. …”
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History and Memory in the Novels of Gabriela Adamesteanu by Roumiana L. Stantcheva

“…The analysis reveals how the narratological hesitation, the intensive use of dialogues and the semi-direct speech build up the psychological density of the writer’s works. …”
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Criticism, practice, pedagogy: creative convergence through A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower by Helen E. MUNDLER

“…Byatt’s Babel Tower, the third novel of the Frederica Quartet, in which Frederic Potter, a teacher of English literature and would-be novelist, is afflicted by writer’s block. Frederica works through this problem by returning to a project begun in The Virgin in the Garden, the first novel of the tetralogy, entitled Laminations. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…The quality of perceptual experiences lies at the core of the writer’s aesthetics, which builds on the ability of language to convey the subjective perception of the characters, as well as the sensations and emotions that shape their mental lives and actively involve their sensing bodies, in an attempt to elicit readers’ empathic responses and their ethical engagement with the narrative contents. …”
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Civic Consciousness in Professional Education of Specialists in International Relations by D. V. Pekushkina

“…The author stresses the importance of building up civic responsibility and legal consciousness as a reflection of state interests. …”
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Être étranger dans 'La Nouvelle Héloïse' by Nathalie Ferrand

“…‘He told me about his travels and, knowing he was English, I thought he was going to talk to me about buildings and paintings’ (La Nouvelle Héloïse, vol. 1, letter 45). …”
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22 mars 1968 : une journée particulière à Nanterre. Retour sur le roman Derrière la vitre de Robert Merle by Jacques Cantier

“…The day of March 22, 1968, when a group of students occupied the administrative building of the University of Nanterre, is often considered as one of the triggers of the May 68 crisis. …”
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Permasalahan Anak Asuh dan Aplikasi Pelayanan Konseling Terhadap Mereka by Yusida Imran

“…Therefore, the writer recommends that the Foundation (YAB) utilize counseling services as one of the prioritized activities for handling orphans problems at YAB.…”
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Constructing a New Regionality: Daphne Marlatt and Writing the West Coast by Michelle Hartley

“…In order to trace a more fugitive regionality, especially one with transnational aesthetic affiliations, one must be able to locate a writer/work among a constellation of documented influences and documented perspectives. …”
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Les univers partagés de science-fiction : pour une transauctorialité by Margot Châtelet

“…To do so, it draws on Saint-Gelais’ concept of transfictionality (2011) and Wolf’s transauthor in Building Imaginary Worlds. This article anchors the concept of transauthoriality in a history of the sociability and collective dynamics of French and American Science Fiction. …”
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“To Preserve This Remnant:” William Apess, the Mashpee Indians, and the Politics of Nullification by Neil Meyer

“…This article situates the work of American Indian writer and activist William Apess in the context of contemporaneous debates around removal of the Cherokee nation from the state of Georgia and the secession crisis brought on by South Carolina. …”
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