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Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19) (2015)
Journal Article
Horsley, A. (2015). Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19). Modern Language Review, 110(1), https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0085

This article uses the theoretical framework of James C. Scott's Domination and the Art of Resistance (1990) to analyse the trial and execution of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585–1619). It argues that Vanini's final actions were subversive acts of rebellio... Read More about Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19).

On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen" (2015)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2015). On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen". Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 20(2),

This paper provides an account of inferential evidential meaning in English and German, realized by seem and scheinen, respectively. The focus is on the grammaticalization of these verbs into semi-auxiliaries that take infinitive complements, a proce... Read More about On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen".

German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000 (2015)
Book
MCLELLAND, N. (2015). German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000. Harrassowitz

McLelland's pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500-2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland... Read More about German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000.

Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada (2014)
Book Chapter
Chapman, R. (2014). Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada. In N. Cheadle, J. Boissonneault, & A. Reguigui (Eds.), Language and territory: literary spaces/Langues et territoire: espaces littéraires. Laurentian University, Ontario

The writing of literary history opens up a range of questions about territory and boundaries. While recognising the energising role of Quebec nationalism in the emergence and affirmation of Québécois literature in the second half of the Twentieth Cen... Read More about Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada.

The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš (2014)
Journal Article
Zoric, V. (2014). The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš

The article examines Danilo Kiš’s essayistic and narrative articulations of the cultural space of Central Europe in the context of dissident debates and the Yugoslav political crisis. In mid-1980s, Kundera’s essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” spar... Read More about The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš.

Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit (2014)
Journal Article
Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2014). Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit

This article analyzes Jorge de Sena’s short story “A Grã-Canária” in the context of a wider discussion on the topographies of the South Atlantic taken as an ideological construct, to some extent always already textual(ized). The story emphasizes the... Read More about Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit.