VOLUME 3(2) • 2020
Steele and Addison: the periodical essay and the rise of the domestic novel
ABSTRACT. The Review, The Tatler and The Spectator were major events in the history of English prose writing at the beginning of the eighteenth century. These publications made the periodical essay fashionable, providing a model of writing with style for many generations to come. The three main hero..
The utopia of regionalism: W. H. Hudson and the environmental essay
ABSTRACT. W. H. Hudson, the author of the famous utopian novel, The Crystal Age, was also one of the most important Edwardian essayists. Due to his South-American background, he brought new light on English environment in his numerous books on landscape. Hudson was one of the first to see the threat..
Ecotopia rising: the quest for the future in two novels by Ernest Callenbach
ABSTRACT. Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia emerging (1981) (the latter a prequel to the initial novel) are relevant for both the ecological paradigm and the birth of a neo-Utopian cast of mind in our age. The novels are together almost an anticipatory treatise of sorts on the questio..
Creative conceptions of citizenship: a cosmopolitan account from the perspective of migrants
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we draw the profile of a citizen who possesses both a pragmatic spirit and a cosmopolitan élan; a citizen who – following the modern notions of a moral and political agent – is a rational and autonomous individual. This citizen is an immigrant. We start by showing that the i..
Creatively retelling a catholic legend in Hisaye Yamamoto’s The Eskimo Connection
ABSTRACT. The delineation of interethnic relations between Japanese Americans and other ethnic minorities in the work of a Japanese American author, Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011), has been a major research focus in the field of Asian American literature. The Eskimo Connection (1983) presents such an i..
Studying while playing with the weaving and patching of the cloak
ABSTRACT. The writer, a harlequin himself, speculates on ways that modern harlequins (Cioran, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Proust, Mann, Joyce and Kafka) weave their textual cloaks which are at times torn by life or language. The game of creation is quite originally analyzed through the prism of Pamf..
Zecharia Sitchin on the Earth Chronicles: a concise lexicon of Sumerian lore
ABSTRACT. The anthropological and SF equation was enriched in the 19th and 20th centuries by the massive discoveries in Assyriology. Zecharia Sitchin (1920–2010) proposed in this sense a consistent system of decryption of the vast history of humanity as it unfolded especially in the past 6000 years,..