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Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro (2018)
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Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2018). Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro. Remate de Males, 38(1), https://doi.org/10.20396/remate.v38i1.8651356

“Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho, nomeadamente a abordagem da estória aos indícios do mar Índico, funciona como um ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre questões de lei, autoridade, força e violência. A estória suplementa literariamen... Read More about Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro.

‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) (2018)
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Mertens, B. (2018). ‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999). Dutch Crossing, https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2018.1476800

Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has... Read More about ‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999).

De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique (2018)
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Ridon, J. (2018). De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique. Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, 16, 17-28

L’ailleurs géographique recherché par les voyageurs du 20ième siècle s’est souvent doublé d’une dimension spirituelle. Dans cette quête d’une source mystique à l’existence l’Orient est devenu pour les voyageurs occidentaux le lieu privilégié d’un ail... Read More about De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique.

In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall (2018)
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Hegarty, P. (2018). In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall. Angelaki, 23(3), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2018.1473933

Blanchot took Mallarmé’s “Book” as the paradigm for an artwork that aspired to such excess it could not exist. And yet it partly did, in the form of the poem Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. For Blanchot, this ultimate literary work acted a... Read More about In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall.

Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921 (2018)
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Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (2018). Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921. Labor History, 59(6), 692-719. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2018.1470064

This article examines labour organisation in Gibraltar and its hinterland from c.1902-1921. It demonstrates that the traditionally strong links which had existed between organisations in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain - links based upon a shared be... Read More about Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921.

William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience (2018)
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Carroll, J. (2018). William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience. History of the Human Sciences, 31(3), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118764060

This article discusses the common ground between William James and the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Recent commentators on this overlap have characterised philosophical anthropology as combining science (in particular biology and medicine... Read More about William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience.

Slavery in Enlightenment America - Crèvecoeur's bilingual approach (2018)
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Still, J. (2018). Slavery in Enlightenment America - Crèvecoeur's bilingual approach. Journal of Romance Studies, 18(1), 103-129. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2018.6

© 2018, Institute of Modern Languages Research. Crèvecoeur's reception has been skewed by a focus on his writing in English. His work on slavery has been neglected - with the exception of one extract on a bestial Southern atrocity, and even that lett... Read More about Slavery in Enlightenment America - Crèvecoeur's bilingual approach.