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The paper investigates descriptions of slavery in early 19th-century British travel writing about America and ponders the question of the presence of empathy in them. It shows that while most passages referring to the slaves’ situation can hardly be called empathetic, and that within the economy of suffering operating in the discussed travelogues t...
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Published in arcadia
Published in arcadia
Right-wing authoritarians in America today know that they need poetry for cultural legitimation but cannot seem to produce anything contemporary that would perform that function in intellectual life. Into this breach step Milo Yiannopoulos and Michele Malkin, with their “America First!” reading list, which includes, among other things, a fair bit o...
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This article examines Christa Wolf's Sommerstück (1989) through the lens of modernist utopian thinking and genre-theory. The novel challenges the common-sense definition of utopia as an imagined paradisiacal state and the idyll as an idealized vision of communal harmony, complicating the question of dwelling within a utopian idyll at the specific h...
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The South-Tyrolean author Sepp Mall, born in 1955, is renowned for his intricate artistic poems. For the writer, composing poetry is a practice of deceleration: an act of both reducing speed and slowing down. Similarly, he describes the process of reading poems as a practice of standing still, of reflecting, and as a highly attentive practice of pe...
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In the linguistic imagery of his texts and also in his consistent biographical retreat, the author Robert Walser presents the riddles of an aesthetic relationship between self and other to the world. From the diversity of his extremely relational view of the world emerges a tension-rich charge of his texts, which is taken up by numerous visual arti...
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Nizami Ganjavi’s fourth epic poem, Seven Beauties offers a cohesive picture of many variations or ‘colors’ of love and occupies a prominent position in his prolific oeuvre. Although much has been written on mystical love in Nizami’s works, the status of profane love remains somewhat neglected. A concept introduced through the Latin translation of a...
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In his film of King Lear (1971), Peter Brook reimagined his landmark production of the play on screen through an intricate interplay of theatrical and cinematic codes. This article revisits Brook’s adaptation, focusing on how its much-discussed debt to theatrical traditions relates to broader issues regarding the production and reception of Shakesp...
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