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Literature, Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2021) – 3 articles

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Russian First World War Propaganda Literature through Its Anthologies. Some Observations on Russian Soldier-Literature and Journalistic Reporting
by Luca Cortesi
Literature 2021, 1(2), 58-70; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature1020008 - 15 Dec 2021
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In the Soviet era, Russian involvement in WWI long represented an ostracised and even forgotten event. This very attitude is reflected by Soviet literary criticism of WWI war literature. Taking into account both the studies which re-examined this part of Russian literature in [...] Read more.
In the Soviet era, Russian involvement in WWI long represented an ostracised and even forgotten event. This very attitude is reflected by Soviet literary criticism of WWI war literature. Taking into account both the studies which re-examined this part of Russian literature in a less ideologically biased manner and the stances that major writers of that period took towards the war, the aim of this paper is to investigate Russian Soldier-literature as presented in anthologies published in the wake of the First World War. The publishing of short stories, journalistic reporting and poems actually (or allegedly) composed by soldiers themselves can be interpreted as a symptomatic expression of a broader cultural discourse that was common at that time, and of which state propaganda publications often availed themselves. Full article
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Rethinking Love as Passion: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate
by Geoff M. Boucher
Literature 2021, 1(2), 44-57; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature1020007 - 24 Nov 2021
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Jeanette Winterson’s magical realist love stories, such as The Passion, have been read by some critics in terms of a tendency to idealise romance as a transformative passion that transcends social structures. In this article, I propose that Winterson’s recent gothic novel, [...] Read more.
Jeanette Winterson’s magical realist love stories, such as The Passion, have been read by some critics in terms of a tendency to idealise romance as a transformative passion that transcends social structures. In this article, I propose that Winterson’s recent gothic novel, The Daylight Gate, critically revises a set of Romantic themes first broached in The Passion, exposing and interrogating the fantasy scenario at the centre of romantic love. This narrative about magic and the devil explores the ambivalence of passion as possession—diabolical and contractual—before using this to critique the desire for transcendence implied by “undying love”. Metaphysics becomes a metaphor for metapsychology, where the Romantic motif of undying love as connected to fatal desire is complicated by a traversal of the fantasy of the union of two immortal souls. These revisions have the effect of reversing the implications of Winterson’s earlier treatment of romantic love, turning it back from the personal towards engagement with the political. Full article
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Editorial
Environmental Literature, Climate Crises, and Pandemics
by Jerome F. A. Bump
Literature 2021, 1(2), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature1020006 - 29 Oct 2021
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We are living in the sixth major extinction event on this planet [...] Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Literature, Climate Crises, and Pandemics)
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