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From feminist literary criticism to cultural gender studies University of Antwerp
Footnotes to Flemish film criticism and culture University of Antwerp
The meta-tragic experience of Kassandra: the symbolic revelation of a new religious experience as criticism on moral degeneration in modern culture Ghent University
Despite the vast research on revisions of ancient myths in early 20th century European literature(52), the German drama-adaptation (1915) of the Kassandra myth, written by the neoclassical author Paul Ernst (1866-1933), has received only little scholarly interest. This drama presents a complex intermixture of ancient and modern as well as mythical and mystical motives. In this article, I analyze the symbolical meaning of the mythical Trojan ...
Nota asupra traducerii patristice in cultura romana de azi. Raspuns unei critici insuficient contextualizate KU Leuven
A polemical discussion on the role of the academic translations of the Church Fathers, with an emphasis on Romanian culture.
Edward Said and the authority of literary criticism Ghent University
This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of Orientalism turned literary criticism into a form of political intervention. Tracing Said’s shifting conceptions of ‘literature’ and ‘agency’ in relation to the history of (American) literary studies in the thirty years or so between the end of World War II and the ...
On Dialogue as Performative Art Criticism Hasselt University
On various occasion, Jean François Lyotard employed the dialogue as a narrative technique when discussing works of visual art. While the conversations with the painters Jacques Monory and René Guiffrey are filmed conversations around their work, in What to Paint? (1987) and Karel Appel. A Gesture of Colour (1998/ 2009) Lyotard invents imaginary voices that debate the creation and the experience of painting. The following paper interprets the ...