A Simulacrum of the 'True Modern Cult': The Bayreuth Festival and French Novels of Pilgrimage at the Turn of the Century

Open access Oct 2026

From Schumann’s Waldszenen to Wagner’s Lohengrin: Textual Analysis of Romantic Music in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that integrates the philosophical implications of aestheticism and new hedonism within the Victorian-era society, providing a trajectory for a transformation of personality and identity. Within the novel’s narrative exists an alternative artistic value grounded in classical...

N. Mamedov · Journal of Arts, Humanities... · 0 citations

Open access 2026

THE POETICS OF JOHN BOYNE’S NOVEL «THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS». AN INTERMEDIAL ASPECT OF PLOT INTERPRETATION

This article examines the poetics and educational potential of John Boyne’s novel «The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas», as well as its film adaptation. The study leads to the following conclusions: a) from philosophical and intertextual per-spectives, the young protagonists of Boyne’s novel can symbolize the deceived Germa...

E. Radaeva · Izvestiya of the Samara Scie... · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Touching the Real in the Canon's Yeoman's Tale : Alchemy, Anecdote, and the Archives of London Goldwork

In Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale, when a self-styling alchemist needs someone to certify a bit of silver as the real thing, he turns to “som goldsmyth” of London to render conclusive judgment. This essay fixates on this minor incident in the tale as a critical focal point, attempting to reinscribe the scene with its...

Joe Stadolnik · Journal of medieval and earl... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Archaic Rituality and the Modern Novel: The Relic of the Chorus in Horcynus Orca

This essay employs Ernesto de Martino’s concept of the “relic” to analyze Stefano D’Arrigo’s novel Horcynus Orca (1975), arguing that by revitalizing archaic narrative forms the novel challenges modern cultural structures and creates new meaning in the face of a perceived “end of the world.” After examining the intelle...

D. Biagi · Quaderni d'Italianistica · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Study of the Fusion of Ugliness and Beauty in the Images of Major Characters in Western Drama—A Case Study of Quasimodo

The dramatic work Notre-Dame de Paris is adapted from the eponymous novel by the great French literary figure Victor Hugo and is a representative masterpiece of French musical theatre. This paper takes the main character Quasimodo in this musical as an example to conduct a study on the images of ugliness and beauty in...

Bin Li · Journal of Education and Cul... · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Strange and Whimsical Performances: William Smellie, Alexander Gillies, and the Paratexts to A Treatise of Modern Faulconry

Abstract:James Campbell's A Treatise of Modern Faulconry appeared in 1773, accompanied by an anonymous Preface and a long, anonymous Introduction. The Preface ignores the Treatise and offers a burlesque of the first volume of Lord Monboddo's The Origin and Progress of Language; the Introduction offers fantastic tales o...

E. Heath · Library · 0 citations