Humanities, Volume 13, Issue 6

Insofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic transport’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oed...

By modernizing Gothic tropes within a narrative exploring the trauma of intimate partner violence, the latest film adaptation of The Invisible Man from Leigh Whannel draws attention to the invisibility of the psychological and societal horrors of abu...

The flower, recognized as a very important concept worldwide from the earliest ages, is considered a symbol that expresses emotions and thoughts within the shared understanding of humanity. The flower is also found in literature and, therefore, in po...

This paper addresses the fifth-century comic coinage gnômotupos, which has not otherwise received scholarly attention. Translators of Aristophanes and Aristotle have typically glossed it into English as “maxim-coining” (with equival...

The coherence and indeed the reality of the sophists as a philosophical school or movement has been contested and debated in modern scholarship, with inconclusive results. While their collective identity, not to mention their exemplarity, is subject...

This essay argues that Nobel laureate Verner von Heidenstam’s campaign against naturalist aesthetics in late nineteenth-century Swedish literature was motivated, in part, by the sense of estrangement he developed from Swedish cultural life duri...

This article locates the clinic as a historically contingent space which faced cultural resistance and remained alien to the colonized population in India. It corroborates the socio-political tension in setting up a clinic within the colony and inves...

In 2024, Eilish Quin published the novel Medea, which is a feminist approach to the Medea myth from Greek mythology. Medea’s myth is heavily influenced by Euripides’ play Medea, a play in which she kills her children to enact revenge on h...

This study focuses on the broken world that the Prague German writer and musician Hermann Grab (1903–1949) first encountered in 1924 with his study of sociology at Heidelberg. While Grab initially sought to comprehend the new world and make an...

This essay introduces the Reed ASJ as a new primary source for the early reception of Laurence Sterne’s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) and draws on recent developments in marginalia studies to locate it with...