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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
Q&A with the author of ‘Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide’
by Tommy Gustafsson Author Tommy Gustafsson discusses what inspired his research for his new book, Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide, and what most surprised him during the writing process. Tell us a bit about your book. Historical Media…
A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’
by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2. The New Americanist continues a tradition of research publication at the American Studies Center (University of Warsaw)—some iteration of the…
Making art is messy
by Simon Ellis Making art is messy. Artists make lots of decisions under less-than-ideal conditions without a clear understanding of how the work will turn out and how it will be felt and experienced by others. When we make artistic…
Lost Property at the British Museum
by Sarah Keenan It’s easy to get lost at the British Museum. The expansive central London building, set out over three floors and divided up into over 60 galleries, displays some 80,000 objects from all over the world. The British…
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor
by Brontë Hebdon Early in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023), Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais see each other for the first time. Their eyes meet across the room at one of the infamous post-terror bals des victims, and both are immediately…
A Q&A with Daniela Berghahn on Exotic Cinema
by Daniela Berghahn Exotic Cinema author Daniela Berghahn chats to EUP on the inspiration behind the book and what surprised her most during the writing process. Tell us a bit about your book With my latest book Exotic Cinema, I…
Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt
A Q&A with Heba Arafa Abdelfattah In this author Q&A, Heba Arafa Abdelfattah introduces her latest book, Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt, which explores the formative years of Egyptian film (1919–52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and…
Lady Justice as an Allegory in Motion
by Valérie Hayaert Animated by signs that are in essence mutable, Justitia (Lady Justice) may be perceived as an allegory in motion. Scholars who pretend to master the intricacies of this “science of images” (iconology) forget an important fact: allegories…
A Q&A with the authors of Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema
by Lis Sodl, Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman Lis Sodl (M.A. Student, English Department, Middle Tennessee State University) interviews Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman on their new book, Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema. Could you please briefly…