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1 week ago

<em>Real maravilloso</em>, Simulakren und untote Körper. Zu Funktionen des Puppenspiels im erweiterten Kontext des hispanischen Diktatorenromans (Valle-Inclán, Asturias, Borges, Eloy Martínez) Im Kontext der hispanischen Variante der Gattung Diktatorenroman hat sich eine antirealistische Ästhetik herausgebildet, die in direkter Auseinandersetzung mit dem Figurentheater entsteht und sich auc...

"Real maravilloso, Simulakren und untote Körper. Zu Funktionen des Puppenspiels im erweiterten Kontext des hispanischen Diktatorenromans (Valle-Inclán, Asturias, Borges, Eloy Martínez)" by Michael Cuntz: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal SC: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action

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2 weeks ago

‚Zugleich unter den Bezauberten und Zauberern‘. Funktionen erzählten Figurentheaters von Goethe bis Hettche Der Beitrag untersucht Figurentheater als Sujet deutschsprachiger erzählender Literatur vom späten 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Dabei verfolgt er zwei Ziele. Erstens wird an einer Reihe von Beispielen...

"Zugleich unter den Bezauberten und Zauberern‘. Funktionen erzählten Figurentheaters von Goethe bis Hettche" by Claus-Michael Ort: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action

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2 weeks ago

The Zoharic Proverb: A One-Line Dialogue The zoharic proverb is a distinctive four-word aphoristic form embedded in the Zohar, a thirteenth-century mystical corpus. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony, the article considers how ...

“The Zoharic Proverb: A One-Line Dialogue” by Hillel Feuerstein: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Beyond Text: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality

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1 month ago

Poetry off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance The introduction to Poetry off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance collection.

Read the introduction to the #OLHJournal special collection “Poetry off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance”, guest edited by Helen Thomas, Andrea Brady and Peter Howarth: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

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1 month ago

A Manifesto That Reads Itself: Towards a palimpsest method for 'reading' site-specific works of art A method is proposed for reading video works as a palimpsest: examining the source texts (the original manifestos), the visual text, and, perhaps most importantly, the spatial context, and then adding...

“A Manifesto That Reads Itself: Towards a palimpsest method for 'reading' site-specific works of art” by Dori Ben Alon: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Beyond Text: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality

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2 months ago

Online Visual Reconceptualisation of Humorous Stereotypes: The Case of Catalonia Catalan people have traditionally been one of the targets of ethnic joking in Spanish humour. In canned jokes, Catalans are the butts of slurs that depict them as thrifty, stingy and business-oriented...

“Online Visual Reconceptualisation of Humorous Stereotypes: The Case of Catalonia” by Guillem Castañar-Rubio and Bai Zhimeng: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes

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2 months ago

Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober) The aim of the paper is to analyse the viral presence of the beaver in the contemporary Polish digital sphere to identify the features of a specific text that make it popular, recognised, and dissemin...

"Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober)" by Wladyslaw Chlopicki and Dorota Brzozowska: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes

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2 months ago

Racialized Contagion and Defensive Biopolitics in <em>The Last of Us</em> In the opening moments of the video game The Last of Us Part I, players are introduced to an emerging pandemic via Austin’s Texas Herald newspaper. Below a headline warning of mass hospitalizations fr...

"Racialized Contagion and Defensive Biopolitics in The Last of Us" by Robert Yeates (@bobyeates.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Gaming and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on The Last of Us (2013-)

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2 months ago

Suspense and Reversal: The Curfew Law in <em>The Seven Sages</em> This essay examines the medieval curfew law through its earliest literary appearance in the ‘Puteus’ fabliau, part of the Seven Sages of Rome frame narrative. Both tale and frame reveal how the curfew...

"Suspense and Reversal: The Curfew Law in The Seven Sages" by Jordan Kenneth Skinner: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal SC: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

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2 months ago

Margins of Ecocriticism: The Annotated Library of Luis Oyarzún (1920–1972) This article concerns the discovery of annotated volumes within the personal book collection of Chilean intellectual Luis Oyarzún (1920–1972). Beyond contextualizing the finding, it examines a corpus ...

"Margins of Ecocriticism: The Annotated Library of Luis Oyarzún (1920–1972)" by Arnaldo Donoso: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Production Archives 03: Archival Practices

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2 months ago

Between Horror and Humor: Depicting Countries as Beasts in Early 20th-Century Russian Cartoons This study examines the interplay between the elements of funny and frightening in early 20th century Russian satirical magazines (1890–1905), focusing on zoomorphic caricatures that depict rival nati...

Between Horror and Humor: Depicting Countries as Beasts in Early 20th-Century Russian Cartoons by Anna Rezvukhina: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes

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2 months ago

Towards a theory of ‘poet-voice’ Why do people reading poetry aloud stereotypically sound so sad? The term 'poet-voice' has recently gained currency to describe this vocal style, which is often cited - correctly - as a key characteristic of the spread of performance poetry in the 21st century. But this article shows that the roots of this style go back much further, and that to understand the contemporary aesthetics of poet-voice it is necessary to situate them in a genealogy that begins three centuries ago. I combine recent empirical analysis with insights from behavioural psychology on the one hand and critical theory on the other, in order to examine the affective stance that poet-voice projects and the historical structure behind it. That stance, I argue, is fundamentally one of uncontrol, and has to be understood as giving voice to a determinate set of hopes and anxieties concerning the control systems by which our contemporary moment has been shaped. The formation of poet-voice in its current technologically-mediated version is then explored via two case studies: first, the transitional instance of a BBC radio broadcast made by Yeats in 1931, and second, a YouTube video by Kae Tempest from 2011, showing how specific concerns around mediation, affect, and control have given the long-repeated cadences of poet-voice a new lease of life in the contemporary moment.

“Towards a theory of ‘poet-voice’” by Conrad Steel: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Poetry Off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance

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3 months ago

Women in Transit, Transient Women: Interpreting Ephemeral Materiality and Experience in Edith Wharton’s <em>The House of Mirth</em> and <em>The Glimpses of the Moon</em> Edith Wharton shows a sustained preoccupation with the material and gendered dimensions of transience in her fiction.  Following an initial discussion of the formative influence of Theodore Dreiser’s ...

"Women in Transit, Transient Women: Interpreting Ephemeral Materiality and Experience in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Glimpses of the Moon" by Emily Ridge: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal SC Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production

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3 months ago

Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em> This article compares three medieval versions of the ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ narrative: the Latin Dolopathos (1184–1212) and Historia septem sapientum (1300–1342) and the Hebrew Mishle Sendebar (1100–12...

New articles in the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

1) "Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social : doi.org/10.16995/olh...

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3 months ago

Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

Interesting contribution on free speech law and humour by my good chum @jennyflower.bsky.social

“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal special collection Humour as a Human Right

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3 months ago

‘Jeust twa folk ken’: Adapting and Performing <em>The Seven Sages of Scotland</em> This paper reflects upon the research and development of two performances of The Seven Sages of Scotland, based on the late medieval Scottish Buke of the Sevyne Sagis, to consider the process, impact,...

"‘Jeust twa folk ken’: Adapting and Performing The Seven Sages of Scotland" by Jane Elizabeth Bonsall and Daisy Black: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal SC: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

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3 months ago

Good trans kids and bad trans lovers as expressions of trans misogyny in the <em>Seven Sages/Sindbad</em> story matter and the <em>Roman de Silence</em> This article takes the theoretical framework of trans misogyny to two versions of the Seven Sages/Sindbad story matter – the Hebrew Mishle Sendebar and the Latin Historia septem sapientum– as well as ...

"Good trans kids and bad trans lovers as expressions of trans misogyny in the Seven Sages/Sindbad story matter and the Roman de Silence" by Bettina Bildhauer: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age

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3 months ago

The <em>Forty Veziers</em> as Part of the Global Narrative of The <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em> Using the Ottoman Forty Viziers as a starting point, this article discusses the basic structure of the Seven Sages of Rome narrative and its extensive flexibility that has not yet been fully appreciat...

“The Forty Veziers as Part of the Global Narrative of The Seven Sages of Rome” by Jutta Eming: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

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3 months ago

The <em>Forty Veziers</em> as Part of the Global Narrative of The <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em> Using the Ottoman Forty Viziers as a starting point, this article discusses the basic structure of the Seven Sages of Rome narrative and its extensive flexibility that has not yet been fully appreciat...

"The Forty Veziers as Part of the Global Narrative of The Seven Sages of Rome" by Jutta Eming: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

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4 months ago

Pluralising globality: Afropolitanism as epistemic self-assertion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s <em>Americanah</em> In From Bomba to Hip-Hop (2000: 193), the Afro-Latino American writer Juan Flores discusses the nature of community—comunidad in the Spanish. He says that it is both a phenomenon existing in something...

"Pluralising globality: Afropolitanism as epistemic self-assertion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah" by Chalo ũa Way: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

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4 months ago

La querelle des mendiants dans les synodes provinciaux et diocésains du bas Moyen Âge. Approches préliminaires La querelle des mendiants occupait une place importante en tant que matière récurrente dans les statuts synodaux du haut et du bas Moyen Âge publiés en série dans toute l’Europe1. Elle occupait les sy...

“La querelle des mendiants dans les synodes provinciaux et diocésains du bas Moyen Âge. Approches préliminaires” by Thomas Woelki: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Diversity and Competition within the Latin Church

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4 months ago

Who ate the baby? ‘Canis’’ adaptation history visualized The Sanskrit tale of the hasty father who kills the one who tried to protect his baby travels through medieval languages and cultures. While the narrative stays the same, the killed character changes ...

“Who ate the baby? ‘Canis’’ adaptation history visualized” by Lilli Hölzlhammer: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

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4 months ago

Visual Rhetoric in Mediating Impartial Humor: Political Cartoons on the Russo-Ukrainian War This study investigates the intersection of visual rhetoric and impartial humor in political cartoons portraying the Russo-Ukrainian War. Drawing on foundational works on visual rhetoric, the paper si...

“Visual Rhetoric in Mediating Impartial Humor: Political Cartoons on the Russo-Ukrainian War” by Orest Semotiuk: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes

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4 months ago

Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Visual Rhetorics of Humour: The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes: olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1421/i...

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5 months ago

Entangled Polemics? The Mendicant-Secular Controversy at the time of the Great Western Schism and beyond At the heart of the debates surrounding the privileges of the mendicants lies a central controversy regarding the role of the papacy. From the mid-13th century onwards, the pope was not merely a parti...

“Entangled Polemics? The Mendicant-Secular Controversy at the time of the Great Western Schism and beyond” by Bénédicte Sère: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection "Diversity and Competition within the Latin Church"

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5 months ago

The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation In James Joyce's Ulysses, both the ‘Cyclops’ episode and the parodic legal proceedings of ‘Circe’ treat sexual deviance as anti-Irish—a feminised foreign invader threatening the heterosexist, hypermas...

“The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation” by Casey Maria Lawrence: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection "Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde"

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5 months ago

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.

We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)

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6 months ago

Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing In the years following the First World War, memoirs of combatants and those who experienced war in other roles proliferated the print market with their autobiographies. People made sense of their war ...

“Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing” by Ann‑Marie Foster / @amfoster.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production

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6 months ago

Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” by Jennifer Young: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Humour as a Human Right

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6 months ago

Unveiling the Sculpture within the Marble Block: Erasure Poetry as Poetic Sculpturing – How to read Alex Ben-Ari's <em>Mayim Mayim</em> This article examines the boundaries of poetry as a textual form by exploring its intersections with visual arts, conceptual writing, and experimental poetics. Focusing on the techniques of Concrete p...

“Unveiling the Sculpture within the Marble Block: Erasure Poetry as Poetic Sculpturing – How to read Alex Ben‑Ari’s Mayim Mayim” by Ido Nitzan, now published in #OLHJournal: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

First piece in the Special Collection: Beyond Text: Cross‑disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality