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Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning 人类世的漫画:启示录、重生和警告的图形叙事

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.03

Małgorzata Olsza

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Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville” 莫奈一瞥:米歇尔·罗伯茨《在特鲁维尔的海滩上》动态、生动的邂逅

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.28

Marta Goszczyńska

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How Deep Time Can Help Shape the Present: Existential Economics, “Joyful Insignificance” and the Future of the Ecological Transition 时间能在多大程度上塑造当下:存在主义经济学、“快乐的无足轻重”和生态转型的未来

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.06

C. Arnsperger

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“Productivity of Constraint”: Wit Pietrzak in Conversation with Philip Terry “约束的生产力”:皮特扎克与菲利普·特里的对话

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.31

Wit Píetrzak, P. Terry

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Echoes of Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 约瑟夫·康拉德《黑暗之心》中入会仪式与血祭的回声

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.24

A. Wicher

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“Did You See Last Night’s Episode of Ecotopia?”: How a TV Series Could Help Move Climate Action Forward. A Conversation with Elizabeth Watson “你看昨晚的《生态乌托邦》了吗?”:一部电视剧如何帮助推动气候行动。与伊丽莎白·沃森的对话

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.20

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, C. Arnsperger, Elizabeth A Watson

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A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021) 《可变对象评论:莎士比亚与投机挪用》，瓦莱丽·m·法泽尔和路易丝·格迪斯主编(爱丁堡UP出版社，2021年)

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.30

M. Cieślak

{"title":"A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)","authors":"M. Cieślak","doi":"10.18778/2083-2931.12.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.30","url":null,"abstract":"William Shakespeare, a literary and cultural icon, and his no less iconic texts continue to fuel the performance and adaptation landscape, various areas of pedagogy, and, inexhaustibly, academic criticism. Dynamically developing theoretical approaches, be it corpus linguistics, media studies, adaptation studies, or posthumanism, reach out to Shakespeare for stimulating research material, taking Shakespeare studies further into exciting and productive areas. One of the issues that keeps returning to the centre of various discourses is the question of what Shakespeare is, and how to approach, understand, and analyze this complex assemblage of meanings— the poet of Stratford-upon-Avon, the theatre person, the theatrical texts themselves, metonymically referred to by the name of the man, as well as their afterlives in print, performance, and appropriations across centuries, cultures, and media. What emerges as an intuitive answer to that question is “Shakespeare”—the Shakespeare object—easily recognizable through its numerous fragmentary landmarks. Variable Objects: and Speculative Appropriation , a collection M. and Geddes, ventures the exploration of that very concept. With its rich and stimulating interdisciplinary approach, it examines how “Shakespeare” keeps circulating in our world, but it does a lot more than discover ways to read Shakespeare’s texts anew. Recognizing “the interchangeability of humans and objects as its starting point” ( VO 2), the volume takes for granted the power of Shakespeare’s texts to generate an abundance of new ideas. What it does is to propose a focus on how fragments and objects, material and immaterial, human and non-human, rhizomatically networking away from the “Shakespeare”","PeriodicalId":41165,"journal":{"name":"Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84676030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Winter’s Tales

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.04

John Michael Greer

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“Enlightenment Is a Shared Enterprise”: Tree Ecosystems and the Legacy of Modernity in Richard Powers’s The Overstory “启蒙是一项共同的事业”:理查德·鲍尔斯《上层故事》中的树木生态系统和现代性遗产

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.17

Katarzyna Ostalska

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Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories 讲述马克·安东尼·贾曼故事中的奇迹

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.25

Jason A. Blake

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