All Outputs (15)

Using and Abusing Poetry and Music: Gosson's School, Sidney's Defence, and Gwinne's Oration (2024)
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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.

Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46 (2021)
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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.

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

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

Donovan Sherman, Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016) (2019)
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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

Hamlet and the Soul-Sleepers (2018)
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Brljak, V. (2018). Hamlet and the Soul-Sleepers. Reformation & Renaissance Review, 20(3), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2018.1498056

The article argues that the soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to be,’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is informed by soul-sleeping: the belief that on its separation from the body at death, the soul enters an unconscious state typically described as sleep or a sleep... Read More about Hamlet and the Soul-Sleepers.

The Age of Allegory (2017)
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Brljak, V. (2017). The Age of Allegory. Studies in philology, 114(4), 697-719. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2017.0025

The article traces the emergence of the myth of the Middle Ages as the "age of allegory"—from the formative developments of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through its classic statement in the work of Jacob Burckhardt, to its consolida... Read More about The Age of Allegory.

Notes on the Religious Element in Hamlet (2017)
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Brljak, V. (2017). Notes on the Religious Element in Hamlet. Notes & Queries, 64(2), 274-278. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjx039

ALTHOUGH Shakespeare’s Hamlet is now widely acknowledged to be pervaded by references and allusions to matters of religious doctrine and controversy, discussion on their overall import continues. The following notes seek to identify or clarify severa... Read More about Notes on the Religious Element in Hamlet.

Early Comments on Milton's Anti-Trinitarianism (2015)
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Brljak, V. (2015). Early Comments on Milton's Anti-Trinitarianism. Milton Quarterly, 49(1), 44-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12117

The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism (2015)
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Brljak, V. (2015). The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism. The Review of English Studies, 66(275), 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgv011

In an often quoted but imperfectly understood passage in John Milton’s Paradise Regain’d, Satan professes to doubt whether the kingdom portended for Christ is ‘Real or Allegoric’. This article takes this passage, the only instance of the term allegor... Read More about The Satanic 'or': Milton and Protestant Anti-Allegorism.

Borges and the North (2011)
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Brljak, V. (2011). Borges and the North. Studies in medievalism, 20, 99-128

Unediting Deor (2011)
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Brljak, V. (2011). Unediting Deor. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 112(3), 297-321

Hamlet and Lameth (2011)
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Brljak, V. (2011). Hamlet and Lameth. Notes & Queries, 58(2),

An Allusion to Purgatory in Hamlet (2010)
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Brljak, V. (2010). An Allusion to Purgatory in Hamlet. Notes & Queries, 57(3),

The Lutheran 'Faustus' in Foxe's Acts and Monuments (2010)
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Brljak, V. (2010). The Lutheran 'Faustus' in Foxe's Acts and Monuments. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 23(4), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2010.517034