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- Ahlberg, Sofia
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The influence of psychedelics and toxicity in JG Ballard and Tom Wolfe's representations of petroculture
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 93:2, s. 258-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In my reading of Ballard's short story 'Dream Cargoes', I find a post-growth imaginary that focuses on a profound species-wide change of pace in the context of future nano- and biotech waste. I compare this to Tom Wolfe's heady account of the Merry Pranksters set during the Great Acceleration of the 1960s and 1970s. While Wolfe captured multiple fragmented points of view located in scattered time frames in his account of the Pranksters, Ballard is suggesting that time and its specific contemporary associations with extinction, renewability and futurity has become a central concern for humanity at large. I argue that literary representations of toxicity yield insight by awakening the reader to the ultimate limits of consumer culture. Thus, this essay offers an approach to fictions such as Ballard's and Wolfe's seeing them as essential resources for assessing toxicity in our lives as a source of insight as well as motivation to look for alternatives to petroculture.
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- Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-, et al.
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Is economic inequality also a literary problem?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Routledge. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 92:2, s. 149-158
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is an introduction to our special issue on literature and economic inequality. Beginning with a discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘Origin of Inequality’, and moving on to a brief analysis of the current juncture of the conditions of inequality and the conditions of literature and literary study, we introduce our seven contributions and try to frame the challenges literary study faces today.
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- Berglind Söderqvist, Erika
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Informational and relational functions of evidentiality in interaction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 92:1, s. 56-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using conversation data from the British National Corpus, this paper investigates the role played by relational functions in the use of evidentiality in interaction, and how such functions interact with the ‘core’ function of evidentiality: to signal access to a source of evidence for or against a proposition. Further, this study looks into the themes authority, cooperation, and negotiation, which have been discussed in previous studies of evidentiality in interaction, and at how these themes manifest and, crucially, intersect with one another in the use of evidential markers. The qualitative analysis of the data finds relational functions to be a highly salient effect of evidential marking in conversation; while evidential markers appear to place focus on the informational content of a proposition, the effect achieved by their presence in the data of this study is found to be allowing the speaker to negotiate and manifest authority in a cooperative manner.
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- Cöllen, Sebastian, dr. dr. 1981-, et al.
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Aspects of philology : Introductory remarks
- 2023
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Routledge. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 95:2, s. 173-179
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- Dunn, Michael
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From effluvia to chemicals : techniques of self and somatic ethics in tropical health travel narratives
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 93:2, s. 155-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent environmental humanities scholarship has argued that environmental illness memoirs perform important cultural work by recasting health as an environmental issue. In this article, I show how EI autobiography hearkens back to a longer tradition of health travel with deep colonial resonances. I explore such connections by means of a comparative analysis of two health travel narratives: The first, A winter in the West Indies and Florida, is an anonymous tract by a self-described 'northern invalid' dealing with his travels to the Caribbean as a remedy for his chronic pulmonary problems during the late 1830s. The second, drawn from a collection by disability activist Aurora Levins Morales, details the author's healing journey to Cuba during the summer of 2009. I argue that, while A Winter points forward to modern sociobiology, Levins Morales's narrative should be read as issuing from a biosocial community of EI sufferers. Finally, attending to the continuities and differences between EI autobiographies may deepen current debates on trans-corporeality, which tend to assume a direct relation between non-dualistic epistemologies and somatic ethics. In this sense, the article can be read as a commentary on overly rights-based approaches to illness and Q1 disability in the present biochemical age.
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- Ericson, Suzanne
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Reading Space for New Worlds in Jordan Abel's Un/inhabited
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 93:2, s. 219-229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel created Un/inhabited by rearranging and deleting large swathes of ninety-one western novels. Unsurprisingly, then, this poem is largely interpreted as an invitation to readers to join Abel in critically examining the colonial mindset underpinning the western genre. While this alone makes the poem a valuable resource in literary studies classrooms, I look beyond what readings Un/inhabited creates the conditions for to ask what reading practices it affords. The poem’s experimental form presents a challenge to readers as it resists attempts to read using conventional strategies. Taking a cue from the book's title, I ask what happens when readers enter the space of the poem as reader-discoverers, and how they can be helped to engage with it in meaningful ways. Guided by Abel’s decolonial poetics and his play on the metaphor of text as landscape, I draw on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s theories of nomadology and smooth, striated, and holey space to suggest that Un/inhabited’s own spaces invite anti-settler, nomadic modes of reading. These render texts porous, undermining their capacity to determine the shape of the worlds they narrate. Approaching texts in this way enables readers to shift from passive recipients of information to world shapers.
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- Fridell, Staffan, 1952-
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A Hamlet from Småland, Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 93:1, s. 1-3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the judgement book of 1604 from the province of Småland in the south of Sweden, there is an interesting case, where a thief named Jon is called an amblet. The only possible explanation for the word is that it is an appellative use of the name Hamlet in the form it has in the Saxo tradition: Amlethus etc. Since it is presented as an extenuating circumstance that Jon ‘was an amblet’ when he stole, the meaning ‘lunatic, madman’ suggests itself.
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- Jones, Ewan
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What is a computational emotion?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 93:2, s. 173-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much recent work in cognitive science and psychology has rediscovered the James-Lange hypothesis, which grounds affect in physiological states and processes. This article complements such an approach in a very different manner, through the computational analysis of large historical datasets. Rather than focusing attention upon the singular affective body […]’. By so doing, it seeks to extend James’s theory of emotion across much larger temporal and spatial scales. Rather than focusing attention upon the singular affective body, I examine a much wider cultural body – the hundreds of thousands of texts collected under Eighteenth Century Collections Online – in order to demonstrate the changing discourse on physiological affect. Computational modelling, I demonstrate, enables us to extend scholarly attention beyond canonical texts so as to consider more obscured or miscellaneous literature, ranging from surgical journals to midwifery manuals. By focusing upon a series of key words and terms – ‘irritability’, ‘sensibility’, ‘mental emotion’ – I demonstrate that such overlooked material anticipated the James-Lange hypothesis in unsuspected ways. I conclude by making a number of speculative analogies between the distributed nature of computational enquiry, on the one hand, and the distributed nature of embodied feeling, on the other.
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