Sexual Desire as Punishment in Euripides' Hippolytus
"Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest" (France, 1901, p.24). Anatole France in The Revolt of the Angels reconfigures...
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Deborah Zaccai
- Feb 5
- 8 min
Vampirism: Reality or Myth?
This article explores the evolution of the vampire archetype & its impact on pop culture, evaluating evidence for & against their existence.
Eugenia Ivanova
- Feb 5
- 5 min
Minimalism in Japanese Art and Architecture: Roots and Significance
Japanese minimalism, inspiring poets, artists and designers, is a unique system of of worldview that has evolved over the centuries.
Sara Manente
- Feb 5
- 9 min
Female Bodies and Posthumanism 101: Female Sexuality
Female sexuality and reproduction represent the grounds on which women’s monsterization is constructed.
Martin Chef
- Jan 30
- 7 min
Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology: Naturalism in the American countryside
Throughout the ages, many writers have endeavored to portray reality through their works and through the prism of different aesthetics,...
Gina Darwin-Gitonga
- Jan 30
- 8 min
Performance and Visual Art 101: Curating Performance
As the visual arts world expands, curating experiential works and experimental processes requires new curatorial strategies.
Eugenia Ivanova
- Jan 30
- 8 min
Moscow Romantic Conceptualism 101: The Celebration of Solitude
Pivovarov, speaking about his viewers, agrees that they were people who were “hungry, not in physical sense but in a cultural sense”.
Emily Duchenne
- Jan 29
- 6 min
Unbundling, Identity, and Othering: What's Happening to the Nation State?
With the demise of the Cold War and clamours towards globalisation, are we witnessing an unbundling of the Nation State as we know it?
Deborah Zaccai
- Jan 29
- 11 min
Survey of Italian Literature 101: 'Il Trecento' / The Three Crowns
Representing Italian literature in the 14th century, are the “Three Crowns": Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio.
Maria Stachouli
- Jan 28
- 9 min
Approaches to American Studies 101: Maps and American National Identity
The following series of articles aspires to highlight the cross-fertilization of two rapidly growing interdisciplinary fields: narrative geo
Angelina Fedorova
- Jan 27
- 6 min
Stereotypical Women's Representation in the Film Industry
The article discusses social theories and the division of resources in filmmaking, causing a stereotypical representation of women in film.
Eugenia Ivanova
- Jan 22
- 7 min
Illusion and Eternity in Pieter Janssens Elinga’s “Room in a Dutch House”
The work reveals the original talent of the artist with their subtle coloristic vision, the delicacy and accuracy in conveying the mood.
Emily Duchenne
- Jan 22
- 8 min
Anthropology and Kinship: Past, Present, and Future
Exploring the history and future of kinship through an anthropological perspective.
Anny Polyzogopoulou
- Jan 22
- 7 min
Film-Induced Tourism: The Case of Game of Thrones and Dubrovnik
Analysis of the role media-induced tourism played in the recent increase in visitations to the city of Dubrovnik.
Gina Darwin-Gitonga
- Jan 16
- 6 min
Performance and Visual Art 101: Participation and Social Practice
In a new age, the 21st century museum has to meet the demands of socially motivated practice.
Ana Isabel Bugeda Díaz
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Orlando: A Tale of Fury and Love
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) is mock biography whose eponymous male protagonist becomes a woman.
Anny Polyzogopoulou
- Jan 15
- 6 min
British Gothic Literature 101: Horror & Terror
Exploration of the two different strands of the Gothic - terror and horror - and the legacy of this division in contemporary debates.
Deborah Zaccai
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Survey of Italian Literature 101: The Origins and 'il Duecento'/ The Origins and the 13th Century
Survey of Italian Literature 101 series aims to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse Italian literary tradition.
Natàlia Vila
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Postfeminism: The Essential Evolution of Chick Flicks
Feminism has extended to all areas of social development, forms of art included. Since the 1980s, a great number of works have been...
Felix Purat
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Strategizing Over Dialect
This article explores the nature of translating dialects in literary translation.
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