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The Figure of Mary Mother of God in Christus Patiens: Fragmenting Tragic Myth and Passion Narrative in a Byzantine Appropriation of Euripidean Tragedy
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11-07)
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Byzantine passion play <jats:italic>Christus Patiens</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Christ Suffering</jats:italic>) is a cento: composed of quotations and borrowings from other ...
Max Müller and the Comparative Method
(Edinburgh University Press, 2015-06-01)
‘Immaterial Labour and the Work of Modernist Literature’,
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-05-16)
This chapter draws on the concept of ‘immaterial labour’ to explore two key questions: ‘What is the work of literature?’ and ‘How might literary writing best be theorised as “work”?’ The activity of literary writing has ...
Ein Weites Feld as Post–Cold War Novel
(2015-08-01)
Memory, Community, and Textuality in Nonconformist Life Writings 1760–1810
(Wiley, 2018-07-01)
Reading for Hope: A conversation about texts and method
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-10-01)
In a conversation about their shared interests, the authors discuss methodology, reading strategies, and comparative historiographies relating to the recuperation of residues of hope that linger in the wake of failed ...
Woolf’s atom, Eliot’s catalyst, and Richardson’s waves of light: science and modernism in 1919
(UCL Press, 2018-10-08)
This chapter stages an argument about the importance of the ways in which three modernist writers engaged with scientific ideas and deployed explicitly scientific metaphors in the year 1919. It offers new insights into the ...
Work, Modernism and Thinking Through the Aesthetic
(Bloomsbury, 2019-08-01)
This chapter argues that, its fantastic premise notwithstanding, Kafka’s 1915 story Metamorphosis is much concerned with the banal realities of modern work, recounting both Gregor Samsa’s anxieties about his irksome job ...