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Humanities, Volume 11, Issue 5

2022 October - 27 articles

Cover Story: In contrast to many writing contexts, modern Japanese routinely and concurrently uses multiple sets of linguistic symbols. At the same time, foreign language usages, and in particular derivations from English, play major intralinguistic roles in Japanese. Jacob Wayne Runner’s article Script and Language as Semiotic Media in Japanese Storytelling examines these issues of multiplicity and differentiation, presenting a framework for understanding the auxiliary associative, ideological, and emotive signification that can be achieved. The framework is then applied to a specific literary analysis of Haruki Murakami’s popular 1987 novel 『ノルウェイの森』 (Noruwei no mori; Norwegian Wood), emphasizing easily overlooked emblematic values and creative aesthetic potential in Japanese writing. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,050 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2022

In 2021, the unexpurgated second novel of American author Richard Wright was at last unearthed from the depths of the archive. In a vivid demonstration of the affective capacity of written sound, The Man Who Lived Underground tells the story of a man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,311 Views
12 Pages

16 October 2022

This study investigates the ability of science fiction to address issues that emerge in public health. The issues that form the focus of this paper include the spread of misinformation and disinformation, dependence on technology, and competent publi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,906 Views
23 Pages

9 October 2022

In the course of the twentieth century, the glorified image of Viking Age Scandinavia exerted an increasing attraction on intellectuals and nation builders in remote parts of Europe, especially those which self-identified as peripheral, marginalized,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,610 Views
18 Pages

3 October 2022

Lorenz Graham wrote two children’s books about the (in)famous abolitionist, John Brown—a picture book, John Brown’s Raid: A Picture History of the Attack on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (1972) and a biography for young adults, Joh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,657 Views
13 Pages

29 September 2022

Thomas Walton (known as Purser) and Clinton Atkinson (known as Clinton) were hanged for piracy in 1583. This article examines a range of texts relating to Purser and Clinton, including court depositions, plays and ballads, to consider the ways in whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,360 Views
10 Pages

23 September 2022

Without visual cues, modern viewers may not discern the ways that All’s Well That Ends Well brings together the bodies of horses and humans, asking viewers to consider the physical dependence and sometimes overlapping medical conditions the two...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
14,745 Views
11 Pages

Roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction

  • Lincoln Geraghty,
  • Bertha Chin,
  • Lori Morimoto,
  • Bethan Jones,
  • Kristina Busse,
  • Francesca Coppa,
  • Kristine Michelle “Khursten” Santos and
  • Louisa Ellen Stein

22 September 2022

Fanfiction as a cultural practice has rapidly evolved in recent years, from a community-based form of social interaction to a globally recognised form of narrative world-building [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,139 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2022

This article discusses a picture book, The Beautifull [sic] Cassandra, that was published by Juvenilia Press in 2021. The text was written by Jane Austen, most probably in 1788, and was edited and illustrated by Juliet McMaster some 200 years later....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,558 Views
44 Pages

12 September 2022

This essay focuses on Lola Ridge’s long poem “The Ghetto” in relation to the gendered imagery and visual construction of the modern laborer emerging across early twentieth-century print media. Perpetuating gendered notions of the mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
11,254 Views
12 Pages

9 September 2022

Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson are two canonical writers participating in a ‘literary slipstream’ through their ventures into science fiction, creating crossover texts that confuse the boundaries between the literary and the popul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,146 Views
10 Pages

9 September 2022

This article looks at the ways jazz legend John Coltrane was a muse for many Black Arts era poets and proceeds to discuss how Michael Harper rendered Coltrane in his work, focusing on editorial changes between the 1970 and 2000 versions of Michael Ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,943 Views
29 Pages

5 September 2022

In this essay I demonstrate how Barbara Guest’s experiments in visual poetry were influenced by Frederick Kiesler’s architectural designs: both artists, inspired by Surrealist poetics, sought to build visionary structures that took shape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,201 Views
14 Pages

‘OMG JANE AUSTEN’: Austen and Memes in the Post-#MeToo Era

  • Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou,
  • Maria Vara and
  • Georgios Chatziavgerinos

2 September 2022

This essay will focus on the central position that Jane Austen holds in the growing culture of memes in the Social Web and examine how these present-day cameo artefacts are both transforming the way Austen is perceived and appropriated today, and exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,293 Views
13 Pages

2 September 2022

This essay looks at ongoing efforts to revitalize arts and culture among the Yezidi and broader Iraqi Kurdish communities. The Yezidi are survivors of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS, also known by its Arabic acronym Da&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,977 Views
14 Pages

1 September 2022

Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name. Seldom mentio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,398 Views
14 Pages

1 September 2022

For a long time now, Old Norse literature has often been colonized and misappropriated by modern right-wing political groups for their own ideology, symbolism, and public appearance. A critical reading of Icelandic sagas, however, easily demonstrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,436 Views
10 Pages

31 August 2022

The violence in Béroul’s Tristran has discomforted many readers and even a few scholars. However, by examining the psychological motivations behind these graphic scenes, important structural elements are revealed. Mark and Iseut have fan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,964 Views
11 Pages

29 August 2022

Scandinavian Studies today are divided into (at least) three areas, which should ideally also be represented by their own chairs at the universities, if one wants to cover the subject as broadly as possible. Likewise, the four languages, Danish, Icel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,136 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2022

In contrast to the writing practices of many modern languages, Japanese routinely employs four denotative systems that operate in conjunction, but which are actively recognized as distinct from one another: kanji, hiragana, katakana, and the Roman al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,033 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2022

Children occupy a peripheral position in the novels of Jane Austen, with the result that they have received little critical attention. This article proposes that, despite their marginal status, children play a significant role in Austen’s work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,576 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2022

In February 2016, co-hosts Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring launched their comedy podcast The Baby-Sitters Club Club. The “joke” at the center of the podcast was, of course, that two adult, cishet, white men were exhaustively recapping...

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