All Outputs (46)

Dark Space in NewSpace: Jeff Bezos' 'Great Inversion', William Shatner's 'Black Ugliness', and the History of the Cosmological Imagination (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2024, June). Dark Space in NewSpace: Jeff Bezos' 'Great Inversion', William Shatner's 'Black Ugliness', and the History of the Cosmological Imagination. Paper presented at The Spirit of Space Exploration in China and the West, Duke Kunshan University

Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Victorian Cosmological Imagination: The Case of James Gall (1808-1895) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2024, April). Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Victorian Cosmological Imagination: The Case of James Gall (1808-1895). Paper presented at International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science (BSLS, CoSciLit, and SLSAeu), University of Birmingham

Using and Abusing Poetry and Music: Gosson's School, Sidney's Defence, and Gwinne's Oration (2024)
Journal Article
Brljak, V. (2024). Using and Abusing Poetry and Music: Gosson's School, Sidney's Defence, and Gwinne's Oration. Sidney Journal, 42(1), 73-106

The article demonstrates the influence of Sidney's Defence of Poesy on Matthew Gwinne's 1582 Oration in Praise of Music, making it the earliest known evidence for Sidney's essay, with important implications for its dating, its relation to Stephen Gos... Read More about Using and Abusing Poetry and Music: Gosson's School, Sidney's Defence, and Gwinne's Oration.

The Defence of Poesy (2023)
Book Chapter
Brljak, V. (in press). The Defence of Poesy. In The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney. Oxford University Press

Allegory, 'Allegory', and _Allegory_: Ends and Beginnings, c.1500-1700' (2023)
Book Chapter
Brljak, V. (in press). Allegory, 'Allegory', and _Allegory_: Ends and Beginnings, c.1500-1700'. In D. Parry (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Allegory. Oxford University Press

Reading Milton's Universe (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2022, December). Reading Milton's Universe. Paper presented at Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York

When Did Space Turn Dark? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2022, December). When Did Space Turn Dark?. Paper presented at Work in Progress Seminar, The Warburg Institute

When Did Space Turn Dark? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2021, December). When Did Space Turn Dark?. Paper presented at NYU Space Talks, New York University

Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46 (2021)
Journal Article
Brljak, V. (2021). Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46. Old English newsletter, 47(1),

This special issue adds to a substantial and steadily growing scholarly literature on Borges' engagement with Old Germanic tradition, including monographs by Uwe Ebel, Martín Hadis, and M. J. Toswell.1 Understandably, most of the attention has been d... Read More about Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46.

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives (2021)
Book
Brljak, V. (Ed.). (2022). Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183341

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The vol... Read More about Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives.

Introduction: Allegory Past and Present (2021)
Book Chapter
Brljak, V. (2022). Introduction: Allegory Past and Present. In V. Brljak (Ed.), Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives (1-40). Routledge

Since the 1950s, however, allegory has increasingly been approached in ways that bring these perspectives into closer alignment: as a phenomenon in its own right, inviting a broad historical and theoretical outlook. So construed, allegory studies hav... Read More about Introduction: Allegory Past and Present.

Introduction: Poetics as Classical Reception (2021)
Journal Article
Brljak, V., & Lazarus, M. (2021). Introduction: Poetics as Classical Reception. Classical Receptions Journal, 13(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/claa028

Artes poeticae: Formations and Transformations, 1500-1650 [Special Issue: Classical Receptions Journal, 13 (1)] (2021)
Book
Brljak, V., & Lazarus, M. (Eds.). (2021). Artes poeticae: Formations and Transformations, 1500-1650 [Special Issue: Classical Receptions Journal, 13 (1)]. Oxford University Press

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2020, December). From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading. Paper presented at Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies Seminar., University of Birmingham

Milton and the Space Age: Premodern Universes and Modern Readers (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2020, December). Milton and the Space Age: Premodern Universes and Modern Readers. Paper presented at British Milton Seminar, University of Birmingham

Inventing a Renaissance: Modernity, Allegory, and the History of Literary Theory (2020)
Book Chapter
Brljak, V. (2020). Inventing a Renaissance: Modernity, Allegory, and the History of Literary Theory. In B. Brazeau (Ed.), The reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and beyond : new directions in criticism (60-93). Bloomsbury

Andrew Escobedo, Volition's Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017) (2020)
Journal Article
Brljak, V. (2020). Andrew Escobedo, Volition's Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017). Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval through Contemporary, 117(3), E173-E180. https://doi.org/10.1086/707144

Milton and the Space Age: Premodern Universes and Modern Readers (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2019, December). Milton and the Space Age: Premodern Universes and Modern Readers. Paper presented at 12th International Milton Symposium, Strasbourg

Donovan Sherman, Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016) (2019)
Journal Article
Brljak, V. (2019). Donovan Sherman, Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Shakespeare Quarterly, 70(1), 85-88. https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quz004

Inventing Renaissance Poetics: Modernity, Allegory, and the History of Literary Theory (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brljak, V. (2018, December). Inventing Renaissance Poetics: Modernity, Allegory, and the History of Literary Theory. Paper presented at Workshop in Poetics, Stanford University