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María Jesús Sánchez García
Just as Surprised as Everybody Else
Literature

Applauded crime fiction author Louise Welsh published Plague Times, a cross-genre trilogy set in the context of a flu-like pandemic, only a few years...

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Cristina Arbués Caballé
Attempts to Avoid Traumatic Occurrences through the Posthuman in Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)
Literature

Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) explore the possible outcomes on the path toward a future riddled with artif...

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This submission proposes a timely and highly relevant comparative analysis of Don DeLillo’s *Zero K* and Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Klara and the Sun*, focusin...

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José M. Yebra
‘What hath God wrought’: Dystopia, Empathy and Revolution in Naomi Alderman’s The Future
Literature

. This article delves into Naomi Alderman’s The Future (2023), a sci-fi feminist dystopia that revisits and updates her previous novel, The Power (201...

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This article presents a timely and engaging analysis of Naomi Alderman’s latest novel, *The Future* (2023), positioning it as a significant evolution...

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JOSÉ PEÑA GONZÁLEZ
VALERA: UN ESPAÑOL DEL SUR
Literature

Hace doscientos años –el 18 de octubre de 1824– nació en Cabra de Córdoba Don Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano en el seno de una familia noble y de escaso...

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David J. Birnbaum, Igor Pilshchikov
Antonina Martynenko’s dissertation: “Traditions and Innovations in Russian Poetry of the Second Half of the 1830s: A Quantitative Study”. Readers reports
Literature

Antonina Martynenko’s dissertation: “Traditions and Innovations in Russian Poetry of the Second Half of the 1830s: A Quantitative Study”. Readers repo...

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The article "Antonina Martynenko’s dissertation: 'Traditions and Innovations in Russian Poetry of the Second Half of the 1830s: A Quantitative Study'....

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Barry P. Scherr (1945–2024), Michael Wachtel
The Russian Sonnet
Literature

This article describes the Russian sonnet as a verse structure. Highlighting the many deviations and innovations poets introduced – from adapting Petr...

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Igor Pilshchikov
New Applications of Jakobson’s “Broad Metrics”: Sung Poetry and Dual-Metered Verse
Literature

meter and rhythmThis article extends Roman Jakobson’s framework of “broad metrics” to sung poetry. Building on his dichotomies of verse design/instanc...

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This article presents an ambitious and theoretically sophisticated extension of Roman Jakobson’s "broad metrics" framework, specifically adapting it t...

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