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What Is the Literary Image in 2019? A Reevaluation of Mitchell's Encyclopedia Entry
(PENN STATE UNIV PRESS, 2019)
This article attempts to reinstate the inherent rigor of image as a literary term by addressing the theoretical issues related to the image that W. J. T. Mitchell discusses in his encyclopedia entry and his articles on the ...
The late victorian economy of countenance in strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde
(Papers on Language and Literature, 2018)
[No abstract available]
The Representation of Time, Modernity and Its Prehistory in Dracula
(Studia Neophilologica, 2018)
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 ...
The gothic horrors of the private realm and the return to the public in john polidori's the vampyre
(Moderna Sprak, 2018)
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 ...
Spectral narration and the houses of desire in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
(College Literature, 2017)
[No abstract available]
A critical evaluation of Heidegger’s criticism of aesthetics in ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’
(Journal of European Studies, 2017)
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 ...
The comic tragedy of mere men and women: The ambiguously distracting use of laughter in The Castle Of Otranto and its prefaces
(Atlantis, 2016)
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 ...
Reinventing the everyday in the age of spectacle: Jean-Luc Godard's artistic and political response to modernity in his early works
(Studies in French Cinema, 2015)
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 ...
The visual way to language and literature in Heidegger's 'Work of Art' essay
(Oxford German Studies, 2014)
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 ...
The Comic Tragedy of Mere Men and Women: The Ambiguously Distracting Use of Laughter in The Castle of Otranto and Its Prefaces
(ASOC ESPANOLA ESTUDIOS ANGLO-NORTEAMERICANOS-AEDEAN, 2016)
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 ...