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The essay deals with the bifurcated representation of time in Dracula that is split into a modern and pre-modern time. In Stoker’s novel, the time of Western modernity and the modern nation depends on the repression of the ...

This study of Polidori's story, The Vampyre, written at the beginning of the 19th century aims at relocating the social relevance of both the story and Gothic literature in the contentious zone between the private and ...

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This paper examines and critiques Heidegger’s repudiation of aesthetics in his essay ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ and claims that his alternative approach to artworks in the essay must be understood as a theory of ...

This paper attempts to analyze the curious effects of the comic scenes in The Castle of Otranto (1764) through a close reading of Walpole's famous prefaces to the novel. The comic scenes evoke an incongruous dramatic ...

Godard's films prior to 1968 are usually received as pure experimentations of style, as if these films were little more than art-historical examples of a certain kind of avant-garde cinema. The author argues instead that ...

In his 'Way to Language' essay, as well as in his other later work, Heidegger argues for a self-referential and non-subjective understanding of language. I argue that Heidegger sketches a different way to understanding ...

While John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice books are nearly as famous as the books themselves, the question of whether these illustrations contribute to or compromise the effects produced by the written ...