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The Joyous Excess of Eugenio Montejo’s Heteronymy' / 'El exceso jubiloso de la heteronimia de Eugenio Montejo (2018)
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Roberts, N. (2018). The Joyous Excess of Eugenio Montejo’s Heteronymy' / 'El exceso jubiloso de la heteronimia de Eugenio Montejo. Latin American literature today, 1(7),

Throughout the writing career of Eugenio Montejo, spanning some forty years – nearly fifty if we include the early and largely disowned Humano paraíso [Human Paradise] (1959) –, the figure of Orpheus is a constant. This is hardly a novel observation;... Read More about The Joyous Excess of Eugenio Montejo’s Heteronymy' / 'El exceso jubiloso de la heteronimia de Eugenio Montejo.

Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie (2018)
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Sunderland, L. (2018). Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy041

Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie is notable for its long descriptions of buildings and objects and for its focus on the emotions of characters. Drawing on historiographical work by Eelco Runia and Frank Ankersmit, amongst others, this article... Read More about Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.

Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings (2018)
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Zheng, B., & Xiang, X. (2018). Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings. Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction, 64(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00023.zhe

Recent research on liaison interpreting shows that the interpreters’ role in communicative events includes language facilitator and intercultural mediator. Being empowered with more coordinating functions rather than regarded as invisible conduits, h... Read More about Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings.

Rethinking Constructs of Maternity in the Novels of Elena Ferrante and Alice Sebold (2018)
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Wehling-Giorgi, K. (2019). Rethinking Constructs of Maternity in the Novels of Elena Ferrante and Alice Sebold. Women: A Cultural Review, 30(1), 66-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2018.1478541

This article explores how Alice Sebold and Elena Ferrante place the feminine—and indeed often the maternal—body at the very centre of their narratives. The body—as a locus that filters the broader tensions and conflicts experienced by their female pr... Read More about Rethinking Constructs of Maternity in the Novels of Elena Ferrante and Alice Sebold.

Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa (2018)
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Burdett, C. (2018). Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa. Italian Studies, 73(3), 274-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2018.1487108

Developing from a discussion of the importance of placing Italian culture in transnational perspective, this article addresses the representation of the Italian presence in East Africa during the colonial period and in the decades following the Secon... Read More about Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa.

Produzione dello spazio del vizio. Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk (2018)
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Pavanini, M. (2018). Produzione dello spazio del vizio. Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk. Kaiak, 5, 1-13

In the third volume of his Spheres trilogy, Foams, Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe, 1947) develops a topology of the human, namely a theory concerning the fundamental dimensions of the anthropogenesis. These dimensions represent the criteria, provided wh... Read More about Produzione dello spazio del vizio. Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk.

Destabilizing the Other in Baudelaire-Bertrand-Rimbaud (2018)
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Finch-Race, D., & Gosetti, V. (2018). Destabilizing the Other in Baudelaire-Bertrand-Rimbaud. Esprit Créateur, 58(1), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2018.0004

This joint article proposes a comparative encounter involving Baudelaire-Bertrand-Rimbaud to show that pieces of verse and prose by Charles Baudelaire and Aloysius Bertrand are as much about split identities as Arthur Rimbaud's poetry foregrounding t... Read More about Destabilizing the Other in Baudelaire-Bertrand-Rimbaud.

The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews (2018)
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Zheng, B., & Xie, M. (2018). The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews. Translation, cognition & behavior, 1(1), 119-146. https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00006.zhe

The present research triangulates questionnaire, retrospective interview and eyetracking data, aiming to investigate how Explanatory Captions (ECs) are received by different viewers with varied educational backgrounds, and whether or not the presence... Read More about The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews.

The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism (2018)
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Nitschke, C. (2018). The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 87(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2018.1433479

This article scrutinises the aporetic confrontation of different ultimate values in Kleist’s infamous Die Hermannsschlacht, namely nationalism and a basic notion of ‘human rights’. Kleist’s play does not settle for one of these priorities, but concep... Read More about The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism.

Music as post-traumatic discourse: Nikolay Myaskovsky’s Sixth Symphony (2018)
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Zuk, P. (2018). Music as post-traumatic discourse: Nikolay Myaskovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 17(1), 104-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022216684636

This essay explores ways in which musicologists might extend work undertaken by humanities scholars in the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies that has highlighted the centrality of traumatic experience to modernist creativity. It is focussed a... Read More about Music as post-traumatic discourse: Nikolay Myaskovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution (2018)
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Hamdar, A. (2018). The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution. Journal for Cultural Research, 22(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1429083

This essay explores the material, phenomenological and political meaning of the Syrian corpse and the question of its dignity as represented in a series of media and visual outputs from 2011 to the present. The essay begins by arguing that the violen... Read More about The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution.

“This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond (2018)
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Senatore, M. (2018). “This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond. Itinera, 15, 57-76. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-9251/10510

This essay traces Derrida’s interrogation of Nietzsche and Freud’s concept of cruelty and his attempt to think the beyond that this concept necessarily presupposes. On the one hand, it highlights the key traits of the Nietzschean and Freudian concept... Read More about “This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond.