Exploration of how Mary Shelley uses her textual creation “Frankenstein” to engage with crippling feelings of growth panic that arose out of her recent adult self-actualization.

Why are academic and policy discourses on child soldiers relatively silent on sexual violence against boys in armed groups? Drawing from the experiences of boys forcibly conscripted into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), this Chapter seeks to transcend the gendered language of sexual slavery, concubines, forced pregnancy and rape. Most sexual a…[Read more]

In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]

Drawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.

In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

In the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]

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Este capítulo presenta de modo sucinto una introducción a la narratología estructuralista clásica, que seguidamente se aplica al estudio de la narrativa experimental de Beckett en el libro “Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva”. Se presentan los conceptos básicos de la estructura narrativa (tiempo, aspecto, voz, status, modo) definidos en relac…[Read more]

‘Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva’ es un estudio en profundidad de la escritura experimental de Beckett, en especial de la trilogía novelística ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone muere’ y ‘El Innombrable’, desde la perspectiva de la narratología estructuralista y las teorías estructuralistas sobre la enunciación. La introducción esboza un contexto estilí…[Read more]

In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]

Este artículo clasifica algunos de los elementos metaficcionales más corrientes desde una perspectiva narratológica, según pertenezcan al nivel de la acción, del relato, de la narración, o del discurso del autor. _________________________________________________________________________________

This paper classifies some of the more commo…[Read more]

The Line of Control arbitrarily bifurcates Neelum valley, Kashmir into Pakistan and India. While the border attempts to constrain and categorize, the daily movements and flows of human and more-than-human bodies via “unofficial” routes and routines generate an understanding of Kashmir that is not dependent on geopolitics. Neelum as sculpted and…[Read more]

This paper examines some of Samuel Beckett’s late narratives (“Company”, “Ill Seen Ill Said”, “Worstward Ho” and “Stirrings Still”), with a focus on the evolution of his metafictional techniques, and more specifically the growing importance acquired by the thematization of the compositional process itself, as well as the attention paid to closure.…[Read more]