In the opening moments of the video game The Last of Us Part I, players are introduced to an emerging pandemic via Austin’s Texas Herald newspaper. Below a headline warning of mass hospitalizations fr...

This paper reflects upon the research and development of two performances of The Seven Sages of Scotland, based on the late medieval Scottish Buke of the Sevyne Sagis, to consider the process, impact,...

La querelle des mendiants occupait une place importante en tant que matière récurrente dans les statuts synodaux du haut et du bas Moyen Âge publiés en série dans toute l’Europe1. Elle occupait les sy...

This study investigates the intersection of visual rhetoric and impartial humor in political cartoons portraying the Russo-Ukrainian War. Drawing on foundational works on visual rhetoric, the paper si...

The Dragomans Renaissance Research Platform represents a long-standing collaboration between the authors. The project explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours from ca. 1550 to ca. 1730. The project leverages surrogates and transcriptions from multiple archival and secondary sources to produce a structured data set that can be queried using SPARQL. The Dragomans use case illuminates the potential of library-partnered DH projects, like other unique collections, to become machine-readable research data sets made available through generalized, sustainable architectures that also suit researcher needs for UI-driven query and display.

In these interviews, the contemporary poets, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Anthony Joseph and Marsha Prescod, reflect upon their performance practice. They discuss the ways in which their innovative poetry ...

Ivories of different natures are one of the oldest materials of artistic expression, and they have been used widely through space and time. The purpose of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to ...

Edith Wharton shows a sustained preoccupation with the material and gendered dimensions of transience in her fiction.  Following an initial discussion of the formative influence of Theodore Dreiser’s ...

This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

Why do people reading poetry aloud stereotypically sound so sad? The term 'poet-voice' has recently gained currency to describe this vocal style, which is often cited - correctly - as a key characteristic of the spread of performance poetry in the 21st century. But this article shows that the roots of this style go back much further, and that to understand the contemporary aesthetics of poet-voice it is necessary to situate them in a genealogy that begins three centuries ago. I combine recent empirical analysis with insights from behavioural psychology on the one hand and critical theory on the other, in order to examine the affective stance that poet-voice projects and the historical structure behind it. That stance, I argue, is fundamentally one of uncontrol, and has to be understood as giving voice to a determinate set of hopes and anxieties concerning the control systems by which our contemporary moment has been shaped. The formation of poet-voice in its current technologically-mediated version is then explored via two case studies: first, the transitional instance of a BBC radio broadcast made by Yeats in 1931, and second, a YouTube video by Kae Tempest from 2011, showing how specific concerns around mediation, affect, and control have given the long-repeated cadences of poet-voice a new lease of life in the contemporary moment.

Using the Ottoman Forty Viziers as a starting point, this article discusses the basic structure of the Seven Sages of Rome narrative and its extensive flexibility that has not yet been fully appreciat...

While Oscar Wilde’s influence on James Joyce has been explored by many scholars, the flamboyant playwright, novelist, journalist, and critic’s importance to Ulysses remains elusive. We suggest that Wi...

The Sanskrit tale of the hasty father who kills the one who tried to protect his baby travels through medieval languages and cultures. While the narrative stays the same, the killed character changes ...

In From Bomba to Hip-Hop (2000: 193), the Afro-Latino American writer Juan Flores discusses the nature of community—comunidad in the Spanish. He says that it is both a phenomenon existing in something...

This study explores the social and psychological functions of humour in totalitarian societies, and traces how political jokes in Hungary between 1963 and 1989 may contribute to a more comprehensive u...

<p>The 11th century translations <i>Premnon physicon</i> by Alfanus of Salerno and <i>Pantegni</i> by Constantine the African offered to the Latin West two systematic descriptions of the human bodily ...

This study examines the interplay between the elements of funny and frightening in early 20th century Russian satirical magazines (1890–1905), focusing on zoomorphic caricatures that depict rival nati...

This article aims to critically examine a certain definition of political literature deployed in the French literary field, which considers it only, or overwhelmingly, under the prism of the ‘distribu...

<p>English Heritage Trust (EH) prides itself on communicating the histories of its sites through playful forms of engagement. In the recent scholarship of EH heritage managers David Sheldon (2011), Jo...