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Cultural memory in classical poetry is carried not by isolated words but through textual relations, interpretive traditions, and paratextual frames. Taking “Nanshan” (南山) in the Shijing (詩經) as a mnemonic node,...

This article examines the evolution of literary genres within the contemporary media ecosystem shaped by convergence culture and participatory practices. Traditionally understood as classificatory and normative frameworks, genres are increasingly cha...

Neuroaesthetic research has often examined aesthetic experience through measurable categories such as beauty, pleasure, preference, prediction, and reward. Although these approaches have produced important insights, they do not fully explain how cult...

This article explores the lived experiences of transgender persons, with particular attention to how their gender identities are narrated and perceived in encounters with the healthcare system. Research consistently shows that transgender people expe...

This study examines the linguistic construction and cultural framing of tricksterhood in Dagaare folktales through an analysis of five narratives centered on the character of Badɛre (Spider). Drawing on discourse analysis and ethnopragmatics, th...

This article explores the complexities of revisiting, remembering and revising the cultural philosophies and aesthetics associated with the free festival and rave scenes of the early 1990s. The analysis here examines and comments on the rave sound sy...

In preparation for a MDPI-sponsored workshop on the topic of transdisciplinarity in the Humanities (23 May 2026), we put together a list of possible questions, issues, approaches, and contributions linking traditional Humanities with related discipli...

This comparative study examines the interplay between moral rhetoric and material deprivation in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. Focusing on scenes in which authority figures articulate ideals of c...

This article reconsiders Pjetër Budi’s Christian Doctrine as a formative work of early Albanian literature in which biblical reception, vernacular writing, and communal address become mutually constitutive. Rather than treating Budi’...

Single women and widows predominate in the short stories of Mary Lavin and the novels of Janet McNeill. Lavin and McNeill endow these figures with an unusual centrality and deploy their contrarian views of society and thwarted existences to explore u...

This article argues that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, together with the older flying-saucer and UFO formations only partially displaced by the contemporary acronym, should be read as a hauntological media formation. Through it, modern culture regis...

Folklore narratives often function as cultural mechanisms through which societies construct memories of origin, authority, and identity. This article examines how hierogamy narratives in Indonesian folklore transform sacred ancestry into genealogical...

This article puts Christina Sharpe’s theories of “the wake” and “wake work” and Kevin Quashie’s theory of “Black aliveness” in conversation with Peace Peloton, a nonprofit organization promoting Black b...

The text examines the formation and persistence of the Swiss national imaginary as a construct shaped by enduring symbols, narratives, and figurative images. Building on theories of collective identity and Charles Taylor’s concept of the social...

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 20.6 million new cancer cases each year, and its incidence is expected to rise as the global population ages. At the same time, new technologies and advanced treatments are increa...

In 2002, the students in my Performing Shakespeare seminar at Davidson College encountered many interpretive challenges when they mounted a full production of Love’s Labor’s Lost. Several cruces, they learned, came down to performance cho...

This article will focus on three poets I consider as having practised innovative modes of writing with a visual artwork in mind: Anne Carson, Emily Berry, and Deryn Rees-Jones. In contrast to more traditional ekphrasis—exemplified by William Ca...

This article examines how drama in English portrays men who anchor their self-worth to sexual potency and masculine performance, particularly when that confidence faces direct challenge or the quiet pressure of ageing. Through sustained close reading...

This article examines the intellectual discourse in the earlier writings of the German Jewish writer Anna Seghers (produced in the 1920s–40s) and reveals that her emerging focus on socio-political themes was not only motivated by an introductio...

This article examines Slavoj Žižek’s critique of ecocentrism through the lens of Lacanian ideology theory, asking how the ecological crisis is symbolically organized in contemporary discourse. Rather than treating ecocentrism as a coh...

This essay examines the potentially dire implications of artificial intelligence for the future of humanism, higher education, and the Humanities by introducing the philosophical conflict between Protagoras’ claim that humanity is the measure o...

The article investigates how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is represented in the following four literary works of the 21st century: October’s Child, Store Kongensgade 23, The Parakeet, and I Am What I Remember. The article argues that electro...

This article examines the narrative representation of high-technology clinical spaces and their challenging effects on the personhood of patient-protagonists in two Swiss hospital narratives: Walter Matthias Diggelmann’s Schatten (1979), a fict...

This study examines how Perumal Murugan’s Seasons of the Palm and Pyre represent the relationship between caste, ecology, and psychological suffering through the concept of solastalgia. While solastalgia is often understood in relation to envir...

This article examines the Popcretos, a series of collage works by Brazilian concrete poet Augusto de Campos, situating them within the broader trajectory of his experimental poetics and the political context of Brazil’s military dictatorship. W...

This article argues that Denise Levertov’s Vietnam-era poetry develops a poetics of language ethics: a formal practice through which words are tested against bodies, suffering, agency, and moral judgment. Focusing on “During the Eichmann...

Referred to by Julian Huxley in his 1957 work New Bottles for New Wine, transhumanism champions the use of science and technology to transcend human biological limits and attain a “posthuman” state. While science fiction frequently famili...

Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, both in its incomplete, revised version (published 1590) and the original ‘Old Arcadia’, features a number of remarkable adventures that explore gender identities and identit...

This article argues that parental memoirs of schizophrenia are fruitful sites for producing relational knowledge, a form of understanding that emerges through interactions among care recipients, caregivers, and clinicians rather than residing in any...

The following article investigates the way in which popular media in Western culture reinforces a shared imagination linked to the treatment and care of people experiencing mental health conditions that are often associated with horror, violence, and...

This paper investigates the identity and circumstances of Nampo Joshi (南芳女史) (Ōzawa Nampo 大澤南芳, b. 1845; born Takei Tsuru), the woman artist who painted the kachō-ga (bird-and-flower p...

The essay rereads the literary field of the mid-twentieth century as structured by “the art of the insult”—a game the literati, exemplified by James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, are invested in. In essays and interviews, these writers...

Chad Hartigan’s science fiction romantic drama Little Fish was released in 2020, soon after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the disease plaguing communities in Little Fish is not affecting people’s bodies but their minds&mdas...

Mixtapes are a form of autobiography and are a tool for storytelling. Summer Pierre’s graphic music memoir All the Sad Songs uses the mixtape to curate and deconstruct memories. Through a series of mixtapes discarded in her basement, Pierre det...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015), a role-playing game developed by CD Projekt RED, exhibits enduring appeal even ten years after its release. The game features European folkloric and Gothic aesthetics that highlight its uniqueness and gained good rece...

The article analyzes the constructions of the racial and social “other” in portraits of or for members of the Danish royal family held in The Royal Danish Collection at Rosenborg Castle and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg...

Türkiye’s Early Republican Era (1923–1946) was a period marked by profound ideological shifts, during which social values and national identity were reshaped. During this time, monuments and statues was utilized by Republican intelle...

Deborah Rodriguez’s The Kabul Beauty School belongs to the body of Western humanitarian literature produced post-9/11 portraying the significant role of America in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. This study analyzes how the memoir embodies w...

This article presents a sociohistorical analysis of Assamese popular science writing (bigyan sahitya) over nearly two centuries (1846–2018), arguing that what has often been described as a regional literary tradition is more usefully understood...

Mo Yan’s stage play Crocodile (Eyu) marks a shift away from novel-centered scholarship in Mo Yan studies. Centered on a continually fed, ever-growing crocodile, the play moves the animal from a textual symbol to a stage image. Existing studies...

This essay argues that Bernard Shaw and Richard Rorty, two of the most accomplished figures of the modernist age in their respective vocations—one an Anglo-Irish dramatist and polemicist; the other, an American philosopher and university profes...

This article examines the structuring tension between the occurrence and non-occurrence of sexual events in Elizabeth Bowen’s novels Friends and Relations (1931) and The House in Paris (1935), arguing that the conflict between sex and...

In The Gypsy Goddess (2014), Meena Kandasamy offers a searing retelling of the 1968 Kilvenmani Massacre, in which at least forty-four lower-caste agricultural workers, including women and children, were brutally murdered while mobilizing for better l...

This contribution to the Special Issue on J. M. Coetzee’s use of epistolary forms examines the unique and unconventional deployment of epistolarity in Age of Iron (1990). It argues that, instead of following traditional epistolary conventions,...

The marriage bar was a widespread rule requiring women to give up their jobs upon marriage. It is generally familiar to many as a peculiarity of Ireland’s past. However, the precise details and history of its operation are frequently misunderst...

Since ancient times, interpretations of the dragon image in China have followed two distinct yet intertwined paths: one official and one popular. As seen in The Scholars and the late Qing novels of exposure, the dragon is often used to refer to offic...

This article offers a comparative reading of Ayla Kutlu’s Bir Göçmen Kuştu O and Zülfü Livaneli’s Huzursuzluk, examining how the two novels represent historical migration and contemporary displacement. It argues...

Nietzsche claimed, in The Birth of Tragedy, that the Platonic dialogues are the lifeboat on which Socrates rescues older poetry, only to finish off comedy. This article contests that claim. Distinguishing comedy (a mode organized around to geloion, w...

This article examines Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes (1868) to explore how memoirs written by Black women become literary spaces of rebellion. Writing from within elite white domestic interiors as a dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd...

This article examines Martha Graham’s radical reception of the women of Greek tragedy across her performing career, from the early 1930s to her retirement from the stage in 1969. I argue that Graham repeatedly turned to Greek tragic heroines&md...