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Baltasar deposited El contexto psicológico de la ciudad contemporánea in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoEl autor presenta una visión panorámica de la evolución histórica y conceptual de algunos temas clave de los estudios urbanos: el tamaño de la ciudad, el espacio urbano, el concepto de urbanita y ciudadano, y el modelo de ciudad ideal. Las propuestas de los sociólogos del siglo XIX y de la Escuela de Chicago, han dejado paso a un urbanismo postm…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori replied to the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe deadline for uploading the articles is September 1st, 2020.
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Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
British History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
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Flavio Gregori started the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, which I direct and is published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites to send article proposals on the topic:
The wonderful, the fantastic, and the preternatural and their verisimilar representation from the Gothic novel to Fin-de-Siècle Literature.
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Christian Frevel deposited Von streunenden Katzen und plündernden Soldaten. Eine Spurensuche zur Herkunft des Wortes in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoin: Sebastian Grätz, Axel Graupner, Jörf Lanckau, Ein Freund des Wortes. Festschrift Udo Rüterswörden, Göttingen 2019, 100-109.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sobrevenidas y exaptación: La ley de la calle in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEnglish abstract: A 2005 note on exaptation, a concept coined by Stephen Jay Gould, and its relationship with a famous dictum by William Gibson according to which ‘the street finds its own uses for things’. These uses can be studied only retrospectively, not prospectively or intentionally, as they are the products of history and of the contingency…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Repositioning The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953): Predecessors, Comparisons and Origin Narratives in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWhile there has been a growing acknowledgement of the existence of earlier examples of television science fiction, the typical history of the genre still privileges Nigel Kneale’s The Quatermass Experiment (1953) as foundational. This was a significant production, and an effective piece of television drama, but it was not the first piece of B…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoRitual-magical divination in manuscript Hs. 3227a of the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Camilla Hoel deposited Secret Plots: The False Endings of Dickens’s Novels in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoOliver Twist does not find wealth and family and live happily ever after. Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam never escape the workhouse. And Eugene Wrayburn does not revive to marry Lizzie Hexam and start a new and productive life. This article takes as its starting point the idea that a story can have ‘false’ endings and uses it as a way of app…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Carlos Gardini en el cambio de milenio in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTras el análisis de las tres novelas que Carlos Gardini publica en este siglo, se observa que la característica formal más notable es una trama concebida para conducir a un instante de revelación plena sobre el mundo, re-conocido ahora en un momento de luminosa anagnórisis. Esta anagnórisis consiste en la comprensión por parte de un protag…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Mexico con X de Galaxia. La ciencia ficción de Mexico DF. Hugo Hiriart y ‘La destrucción de todas las cosas’ in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el caso de cierta CF escrita en México, hay una doble invasión: espacial y temporal. Ocurre así, por ejemplo, en La destrucción de todas las cosas (1992), de Hugo Hiriart, y en “La catástrofe” (1984), recogido en La sangre de Medusa de José Emilio Pacheco.211 En estos textos, se emplea un género que se percibe como ajeno para abordar la disloca…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Angélica Gorodischer. ‘Trafalgar’ (1979) y ‘Kalpa Imperial’ (1983-1984) in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNo sólo la calidad une Trafalgar y Kalpa Imperial, o el hecho de que cierren un primer periodo de la obra de Gorodischer. En ambos libros la fi gura central es un narrador que relata aventuras y acontecimientos en lo que es, explícita o implícitamente, otro planeta, muchos en Trafalgar, uno solo en Kalpa Imperial. Estos planetas y estos ac…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Hacia un modelo de la ciencia ficción. La práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el capítulo 1 se ofrece un modelo del funcionamiento del género de la ciencia ficción construido desde una cierta mirada del latinoamericanista. El capítulo 2 examina la práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina.
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Extranjero en tierra extraña. El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina [Introducción] in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLa ciencia ficción latinoamericana es, ante todo, ficción latinoamericana. Participa íntegramente de las corrientes culturales y artísticas que nutren la literatura de América Latina, al tiempo que constituye un específi co punto de articulación de éstas. Englobable en la literatura de lo insólito, la ciencia ficción (CF a partir de ahora) es…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited “‘Let Me Enter the Heaven of Her Consciousness.’ Cosmopolitan Ghosts in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel.” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMy purpose in this article is to analyze Bioy’s novel in terms of two concepts from two well-known studies on specters and haunting, and to connect this spectral dimension of the novel to current discussions of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The first idea I will use is Derrida’s njunction that one needs “to learn to live with ghosts” (Specte…[Read more]
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Jose Ángel Salgado Loureiro started the topic International Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology” (Call for papers) in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoInternational Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology”
(Santiago de Compostela, July 28-29th, 2020)
Eschatology is one of the central components of medieval Christian culture. The end of the world, the Last Judgment, salvation, Messianism, the Antichrist, the Apocalypticism and millenarianism are inescapable elements in what we may generally…[Read more] -
Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoDo you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help…[Read more] -
Evina Steinova deposited Call for Papers | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (Oct 22-23 2020, Amsterdam) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:
• Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
• Application of network analysis to cor…[Read more] - Load More