Published in arcadia
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...
The preaching revival that began towards the end of the 12th c. left us an impressive body of manuscript sources: sermons by the thousand of course, but also a wide range of preaching aids, like collections of exempla or distinctiones, florilegia, biblical tools, etc. The preachers could delve into this materia praedicabilis or 'preaching material'...
Published in Journal of Literary Semantics
Kamel Daoud’s debut novel Meursault, contre-enquête is a recasting of Camus’ seminal novel, L’Étranger. Daoud creates an overt and deliberate set of intertextual references to Camus’ text by describing the same events from the point of view of the brother of the nameless ‘Arab’ murdered by Meursault in L’Étranger. Thus the differences in character ...
Due to the fact that Andocides is nowhere mentioned in Cicero’s oeuvre it is universally assumed that Cicero could not have read, let alone been inspired by, the works of Andocides. By comparing several passages from both orators, this paper argues that this is not necessarily the case. In terms of both language and content, these texts bear so clo...
Published in Journal of homosexuality
This analysis has two interlinked goals. First, drawing on Lee Edelman, Dudley Andrew and Laura Mulvey, it theorizes the male homosexual optique, a mode of address that is predicated on the relationship between a film, its context of reception and its spectator, and which undermines the heterosexual exigencies of classical narrative style to implic...
The essay is dedicated to the work of the Mexican writer and film director Juan Manuel Torres (1938–1980), who had lived in Łódź in the 1960s for many years and studied directing at the film school there. His prose is strongly influenced by Polish literature and culture. Torres’ work is currently experiencing a rediscovery: the historical-critical ...
Published in Journal of Literary Theory
The essay proposes to think of the creative subject as an actor in a network, that is, following Bruno Latour, as a »moving target of a vast array of entities swarming toward it« (Latour 2005, 46). It explores what it means to bring a network analysis to lectures on poetics by employing both a structuralist visualization informed by a computational...
Published in Journal of Literary Theory
If, as George E.P. Box puts it, »all models are wrong, but some are useful« (Box in Ahnert et al. 2020, 79), what then, would be the merit and concrete gains of such an ambivalent model in the field of literature? This article stems from a hunch: that the use of the network metaphor to describe children’s literature (in the broad sense as referring...
peer reviewed / Intertextuality and textual transmission in the mid-18th dynasty Theban necropolis: Case studies from TT 84 and TT 95 The decoration of the tombs of the mid-18th dynasty Theban necropolis bears witness to a strong social and intellectual rivalry between the members of the contemporary elite. The lifetime competition between the memb...
Magistrsko delo se ukvarja z metafikcijskimi prvinami v romanih The Book of Form and Emptiness ameriške pisateljice Ruth Ozeki, Cloud Cuckoo Land ameriškega pisatelja Anthonyja Doerrja in Frankissstein angleške pisateljice Jeanette Winterson, ki so izšli v zadnjih štirih letih. Prva polovica dela predstavlja teorijo metafikcije kot literarnega nači...
