An open group for all members interested in literary theory, literary criticism, the history of literary theory and criticism, literary aesthetics or literary cultural studies, the theory of literary history, comparative literature, and literary and philological studies generally.
Miklos Mezosi deposited Как сделан Подъячий Мусоргского? An Opera Emerging from Gogol’s Sleeve—“Musical Synecdoche” in the making in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 day, 23 hours agoOne of the characteristic elements of Gogol’s poetic arsenal, a technique termed as the “Gogolian mask” by Boris Eikhenbaum, re-appears in Musorgsky—not in the comic “Gogol operas” but in a scene of Khovanshchina, his last and most somber opera. The paper focuses on how a particular literary legacy—the Gogolian mask—is adapted for a musical genre…[Read more]
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Miklos Mezosi deposited A hidalgó szédelgése a szökökútnál – Megváltás vagy kárhozat? Beavatás és sebezhetetlenség: a szakrális, a profán és a deszakralizáció hármasútján in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoA tanulmány középpontjában a Borisz Godunov dráma szökőkútjelenete áll. Először a jelenet szövegét vetem alá részletes, a motivikus rekurrenciákat feltérképező és értelmező poétikai elemzésnek, majd a tanulmány második felében a drámai szituációt a bibliai-szakrális konnotációk, motívumok és ezek költői transzformációi tükrébe helyezve pró…[Read more]
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Miklos Mezosi deposited How was Musorgsky’s Scribe Made? An Opera Emerging from Gogol’s Sleeve – Musical Synecdoche in the Making in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoA close-reading analysis of a scene in Musorgsky’s Khovanshcina leads to identifying a “musical tropes”—the musical metaphor termed as the “musical synecdoche.” The musical metaphor requires a more creative or integrative act on the part of the listener, one that leads to an emergent meaning—and probably a more complex meaning. Musical tro…[Read more]
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Miklos Mezosi deposited Kiútkeresés az érdek nélküli tetszés zsákutcájából Kalandozások a művészetterápia forrásvidékein – Dosztojevszkij, Mozart és az interperszonalitás / In Search for a Loophole from the Deadlock of Disinterested Pleasure.Wandering about in the Region of Sources of Art Therapy – Dostoevsky, Mozart and Interpersonality in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoIn Search for a Loophole from the Deadlock of Disinterested Pleasure.Wandering about in the Region of Sources of Art Therapy – Dostoevsky, Mozart and Interpersonality
Treating art- and bibliotherapy as one discipline, this paper aims to discuss interpersonality in Dostoevsky and Mozart as one of the main sources of art therapy.
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Miklos Mezosi deposited Sally Dalton-Brown, Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1997) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoBook review of S. Dalton-Brown’s monograph on Alexander Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin. Published by Bristol Classical Press in Critical Studies in Russian Literature. Series Editor: Neil Cornwell. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1997.
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Miklos Mezosi deposited A dráma válsága – vagy drámaiatlan-e a történelmi játék? [The Crisis of Drama – or is a Historical Play Undramatic?] in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoThis paper reflects on three crucial points of Peter Szondi’s concept of drama theory. The first has to do with literary history (Szondi ascribes the beginning of the crisis of drama to dramatists Chekhov and Ibsen); the second concerns the theory of drama (a historical play, according to Szondi, never constitutes a drama: “why is it that a his…[Read more]
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Miklos Mezosi deposited A „Borisz Godunov-szüzsé”: történet( és )írás Az autoritatív elbeszéléstől a művészi szkepszisig: Karamzin, Puskin és Muszorgszkij feldolgozásai in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 days, 23 hours agoAz orosz történetírásban hagyományosan szmutá-nak, “zavaros időszaknak” nevezett évtizedek három legmarkánsabb, művészi szempontból a legerőteljesebb feldolgozásának mindegyike különböző szemléletet és műfajt képvisel, ám egy dologban egyek: a kérdéses időszak adekvát elbeszélésére illetőleg megjelenítésére Borisz Godunov cár uralkodói pályáj…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Farhadpour, prismatically translated: philosophical prose and the activist agenda in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agochapter in The Routledge Handbook of Translation & Activism
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Poetry Translation Masterclass: Theory, Problems, Practice in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis course (held during Jan-Feb 2021) offers an introduction to the art of translating poetry from a practitioner’s perspective. It is designed for poetry lovers and translators of all backgrounds—ranging from those who have never translated before but are interested in understanding what it is all about, to those who have been translating for…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Gender Studies in the discussion
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoGender studies (feminist criticism, women or men’s studies, literature and sexuality etc.) has been a prominent interest in English literary studies in recent decades, and will presumably keep on that way. We might share here “things” we find relating to the subject or collection of subjects. E.g. today:
Kaur, Surinder. (…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited Bicultural Geographies: Narrating Anglo-Welsh Identities in the Novels Of Allen Raine in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month agoWritten around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Allen Raine’s novels and short stories predominantly depict life in a fictionalised version of the coastal area of south Cardiganshire in an unspecified but clearly Victorian past. Raine’s characters are portrayed as geographically and socially mobile as they overcome the met…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Through Wales in the Footsteps of William Gilpin: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Early French Tourists, 1768–1810 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month agoTaking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Observations on the River Wye (1782) as point of departure, this article examines three Anglophone illustrated travel accounts by French tourists during the Romantic period, focusing on the co-occurrence of text and images as they may confirm, d…[Read more]
Maciej Junkiert deposited Grecja i jej historia w twórczości Cypriana Norwida in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThe book is dedicated to the presence of Greek history in the works of Cyprian Norwid. According to the poet, the Greek origins contributed to the creation of mechanisms that make it possible to diagnose the spiritual condition of the contemporary times through analyzing its relation to the Greek myth of the “Golden Age”. Ideologization of the way…[Read more]
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