Category: Issue

In 2012, the word ‘revolution’ crossed the globe rapidly, as the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring sparked protests and uprisings in different parts of the world. These contemporary events provide us with new means of looking at the significance of the term “revolution” itself. Are these revolutions? Is it perhaps necessary to reconsider our… Continue reading 25.2 | Revolution

Tracing the effects of novel technologies on human existence, posthumanism allows for, or stages, a reconceptualization of human identity. One might say that postmodernism previously posed a similar challenge to “the fixity of ‘human nature’” in emphasizing the fragmentary, non-fixed nature of human identity. This was reflected in the literature that went hand in hand… Continue reading 25.1 | Narrating Posthumanism

Main Articles Frank Brandsma | Verlangen als verhaalmotor: lust, list en liefde in de middeleeuwse literatuurAbstract and PDF Bette Talvacchia | Bronzino’s Del Pennello and the Pleasures of ArtAbstract and PDF Anne Morey & Claudia Nelson | Phallus and Void in Kipling’s ”The Vampire” and Its ProgenyAbstract and PDF Bart Smout | Het ontklede woord: Literatuur en… Continue reading 24.2 | Literatuur en Erotiek

Main Articles Birgit Mara Kaiser | Theory Today; Or, How are We to Read That?Abstract and PDF J. Hillis Miller | The Act of Reading Literature as Disconfirmation of TheoryAbstract and PDF Peter Brooks | Law and its Other in Literary TheoryAbstract and PDF Peter Lamarque | Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy of LiteratureAbstract and… Continue reading 24.1 | Theory Today

Main Articles Howard Stern |  On Mahler’s Cuckoos: Ironies of Text and MusicAbstract and PDF Gillis J. Dorleijn | Literaire muziek. Een demonstratie van een “intermediale” lectuur voorafgegaan door enkele opmerkingen over intermedialiteitAbstract and PDF Krisztina Lajosi | Wagner and the (Re)mediation of Art: Gesamtkunstwerk and Nineteenth-Century Theories of MediaAbstract and PDF Vincent Meelberg |… Continue reading 23.2 | Literatuur en Muziek

Main Articles Yasco Horsman | Breakdowns! Het naleven van de strip in grafische romans van Spiegelman, Ware en ClowesPDF Jan Baetens | Strips en sequential art, een moeilijke relatiePDF Erin La Cour | Representation of Truth and Trauma in Personal Narrative: The In-Sight of Graphic NovelsPDF Alexander Venetis | Introducing Robert William Overweg: Between Subjectivity, Technology and… Continue reading 23.1 | Graphic Novel

Main Articles Murat Aydemir | In Queer StreetAbstract and PDF Judith Roof | ”Aaa, Aaa, Aaa” Repetition/Compulsion, and Queer Comedy in Little BritainAbstract and PDF Lowrie Fawley | Everything I Know About Being a Girl, I Learned From a Drag QueenAbstract and PDF Dennis Allen | A Place for Us: Queer Space and the Lesbian… Continue reading 22.2 | Queer Studies

Main Articles Solange Leibovici | Over narrativiteit en fictionalisering in de (auto)biografische ruimteAbstract and PDF Machteld de Caluwé en Koen Rymenants | Leven en sterven van Rembrandt. De fictionele biografie tussen geschiedenis en psychologieAbstract and PDF Jürgen Pieters | Self-fashioning in de vroegmoderne literatuur- en cultuurgeschiedenisAbstract and PDF Ann Rigney | Embodied and Remembered LivesAbstract and PDF… Continue reading 22.1 | Life and Narrative

Main Articles Antoon de Baets | Power, Freedom and the Censorship of HistoryAbstract and PDF Nicholas J. Karolides | Suppression of Thought: Political Bans and Societal ConstraintsAbstract and PDF Andrew Hadfield | Censorship in Renaissance England: The Fate of Edmund SpenserAbstract and PDF Francesca Billiani | Aesthetic Censorship? Readers’ Reports from Fascist ItalyAbstract and PDF… Continue reading 21.2 | Censuur

Main Articles N. Katherine Hayles | Distributed Cognition at/in Work: Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryan’s slippingglimpseAbstract and PDF Kiene Brillenbrug Wurth | Intermediality and Postmediality in Contemporary CyberpoetryAbstract and PDF Samuel Vriezen | Totale verbinding: Flarf en de mogelijkheid van disruptie in een futloze wereldAbstract and PDF Noortje Kessels | De interventie van cyberpoëtica: Een… Continue reading 21.1 | Cyberpoetics