This issue of the PJES brings five new papers: E. M. Forster’s Last Love by Peter J Conradi Redeeming Time: Henry V’s Transition from ‘Comedian’ to King by David Livingstone Escaping the Women’s Sphere by Jana Valová Principles of Mood Selection in Psalm 20: A Diachronic Study on Psalm Translations from Old to Late Modern English by Kinga Lis…[Read more]

Issue of the PJES dedicated to old age in literature CONTENTS From the Editor Ageing into Old Age: Literary Conclusions and New Beginnings Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Ann Radcliffe’s Ruminations on the Ageing Body in The Romance of the Forest (1791) Roslyn Joy Irving, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Univ…[Read more]

In his essay “Lightning and Series – Event and Thunder,” originally written around 2003 and published in English in 2006, German media philosopher Friedrich Kittler writes: “Strangely enough, there are signals that exist in all mathematical purity, such as on the one hand the sinus tones that have lasted for eternities and that will continu…[Read more]

Most discourse on noise still considers it in opposition or juxtaposition to ‘sound’ and ‘music:’ an abject, transgressive, disruptive or subversive element. Contrary to this view, I argue noise is essential in recorded music. Noise is present in the attack of each sound, shaping its overtones and defining its specific sonic identity. This ‘noise-…[Read more]