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Sekulic, Nada. "Interconnections between theory, history and imagination in anthropology." Sociologija 47, no. 4 (2005): 323–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc0504323s.

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The article examines the interconnections between theory, history and imagination in anthropology. Anthropology as academic discipline was established on the scholars? endeavors to raise the history above simple historiography descriptions to the level of theoretical knowledge and nomotetic science, based on the principles of rationality. Therefore, in a way, the contribution of imaginative thinking to the emergence of anthropology and its influence on the formative processes of multi-cultural exchange has been underestimated. An revised analysis of the importance of imagination in these processes makes possible revision of the history of anthropology asking for new anthropological "literacy" focused on understanding the formative aspects of imagination in constitution of knowledge.

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Rosa, Susan, and Alison Shell. "Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660." Sixteenth Century Journal 31, no. 4 (2000): 1119. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2671207.

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Lambert, David Arthur. "The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity." Journal of Jewish Studies 69, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 410–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/3383/jjs-2018.

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Ramos, Iolanda. "R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination." Open Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (December 20, 2017): 591–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0056.

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Abstract This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire and the imperial project, thus providing a contemporary perception of Victorian worldliness and outward endeavours.

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MANKIN, ROBERT. "LITERARY MURDER." Modern Intellectual History 3, no. 2 (August 2006): 371–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244306000825.

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John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination. English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 1997)John Brewer, Sentimental Murder. Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 2004)Times have changed. Consider how George Orwell, in 1946, imagined the reader sitting down to a moment of pleasure.

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Mills, R. J. W. "The Experimental Imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment." Seventeenth Century 35, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 125–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2019.1626275.

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Kramer, Loyd S. "Literatūra, kritika ir istorinė vaizduotė: Haydeno White'o ir Dominicko LaCapra'os literatūrinis iššūkis." Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 1, no. 1 (April 4, 1997): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/socmintvei.1997.1.6613.

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Vertimas: Kramer, Loyd S. 1989. Literature, Critisism, and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. In: The New Cultural History, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press; 97-128.

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Reid, Margaret. "Narrative Silence in America's Stories." Keeping Ourselves Alive 3, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1993): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.3.2-3.11nar.

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Abstract In the historical event of the American Revolution, as well as in certain central texts of the American literary imagination, a tension between the power of a community to define itself through language and the resistance of experiential history to such enclosure is represented through a particular form of narrative silence. This narrative form may first suggest repression and the failures of memory. But the American imagination has used narrative silence as a way of representing events that lie outside of the known and planned, in order to preserve the residual life of experience and so to bear witness to the imagina-tion's dependence on the whole of history. In this essay, I argue that this narrative form reveals a central paradox of the American cultural imagination: This imagination successfully encodes its story of community exactly insofar as it creates a place—in language and in thought—for the safely silent acknowl-edgement of the power of experiential knowledge and untold secrets. (Culture studies; literary criticism)

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Berger, S. "Book Review: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, Cultural Memory and Historical Consciousness in the German-Speaking World since 1500, German Literature, History and the Nation, Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination." German History 24, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 320–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026635540602400224.

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Obradović, Dragana. "Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination." Scando-Slavica 63, no. 2 (July 3, 2017): 228–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2017.1399586.

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Halmi, Nicholas. "The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism." Common Knowledge 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 318–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-8906285.

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Ricci, Ronit. "Reading a History of Writing: heritage, religion and script change in Java." Itinerario 39, no. 3 (December 2015): 419–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115315000868.

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Scripts are sites of religious, cultural and political power. Although scripts are often viewed solely as technical devices in the service of meaning, the particular histories of scripts’ coming into being, their uses and sometimes disappearance can tell us much about shifting religious agendas, memory, and attachments to community, place, and particular literary cultures. In my essay I explore the history of writing in Java, including the story of the letters’ creation, to think about cultural and religious transformations, the relationship of foreign to local, and the powerful hold certain texts have on the imagination.

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Ellrodt, Robert. "Unchanging forms of identity in literary expression." European Review 7, no. 1 (February 1999): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700003781.

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The development of self-consciousness and the questioning of identity appear to be closely linked in literary history and theory. The postmodernist assumption that the self is only a heterogeneous cultural construct is unwarranted. Besides inner experience, there is an objective basis for the singularity of the self in biology, psychoanalysis and psychology. The exploration of the modes of consciousness and imagination mirrored in literary creation can bring evidence of structures and correlations unnoticed in personality studies. The presence and permanent nature of individual traits and their characteristic interrelations may be detected in the works of the English Metaphysical poets and John Milton.

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CONNELL, PHILIP. "BRITISH IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF ANCIENT POETRY IN LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND." Historical Journal 49, no. 1 (February 24, 2006): 161–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x0500508x.

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This article examines the scholarly recovery and popular reception of ‘ancient poetry’ in later eighteenth-century England, with a view to elucidating the relationship between cultural primitivism and more overtly politicized discourses of national identity. The publication of the poems of Ossian, in the early 1760s, gave a new prominence to the earliest cultural productions of Celtic antiquity, and inspired the attempts of English literary historians, such as Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton, to provide an alternative ‘Gothic’ genealogy for the English literary imagination. However, both the English reception of Ossian, and the Gothicist scholarship of Percy and Warton, were complicated by the growing strength of English radical patriotism. As popular political discourse assumed an increasingly insular preoccupation with Saxon liberties and ancient constitutional rights, more conservative literary historians found their own attempts to ground English poetic tradition in some form of Gothic inheritance progressively compromised. The persistence of ancient constitutionalism as a divisive element of English political argument thus curtailed the ability of Gothicist literary scholarship to function as an effective vehicle for English cultural patriotism.

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Conrad, Thomas. "Ewa Szypula, Balzac’s Love Letters. Correspondence and the literary imagination." Studi Francesi, no. 185 (LXII | II) (August 1, 2018): 335–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.13755.

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Quinney, Anne. "Cultural Colonies: France and the Romanian Imagination." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 11, no. 3 (August 2007): 445–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409290701537621.

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Shore, Paul. "The Muslim Body in the Baroque Jesuit Imagination." Al-Qanṭara 36, no. 2 (December 30, 2015): 531–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2015.016.

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Akam, Everett H. "Community and Cultural Crisis: The “Transfiguring Imagination” of Alain Locke." American Literary History 3, no. 2 (1991): 255–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/3.2.255.

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Enciso, Patricia E. "Stories Lost and Found." Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice 66, no. 1 (July 14, 2017): 29–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381336917718813.

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As literacy scholars, we continually engage with the ongoing politics of imagination in everyday life across silenced histories and uncertain futures. In this article, I draw on sociocultural theories and philosophies of imagination as well as narrative and global discourse theories to argue that literacy research, in the context of social inequality, depends on our capacity to imagine otherwise and to tell and listen to stories without colonizing what is unknown and unfamiliar. I illustrate the consequences of (im)mobilizing imagination, and the effort to speak and be heard despite inequalities, by telling stories from my family’s history and by analyzing youth conarrations of their cross-cultural lives.

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Warren, Andrew. "Between Form and Formalization: Angus Fletcher’s The Topological Imagination." boundary 2 48, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 207–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8821486.

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This is a review essay of Angus Fletcher’s posthumous The Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands (2016). Fletcher’s guiding intuition is that topology—a vast, foundational, formally rigorous pillar of modern mathematics—can offer fresh, useful ways of seeing and thinking about our world. These novel modes of perception and cognition are, Fletcher contends, naturally anticipated by literary creation and theories of it—hence the book’s title, The Topological Imagination. Half of my essay is consequently devoted to fleshing out the larger contexts of Fletcher’s investigation: topology’s core concepts, Romantic theories of the imagination, and earlier encounters between topology and literary and philosophical thought, particularly that of Blanchot and Deleuze. The other half of this essay asks whether Fletcher’s accounts of topology and the (Romantic) imagination are accurate and compatible, and what true compatibility might look like. To answer this final question, I turn to recent debates about form and formalization and A. R. Ammons’s book-length poem, Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974).

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Adolph, Robert. "APOCALYPSE THEN AND NOW: HISTORY, MYTH AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION." Canadian Review of American Studies 18, no. 2 (May 1987): 279–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-018-02-13.

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Morris, Daniel. "Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination by Norman Finkelstein." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 38, no. 2 (2020): 319–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.2020.0020.

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Kao, Wei H. "James Connolly on stage: history, imagination, and interpretations." Irish Studies Review 24, no. 2 (February 25, 2016): 207–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2016.1151153.

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Swanson, Elizabeth. "Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity." Violence Against Women 25, no. 13 (September 10, 2019): 1613–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869551.

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This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity as it informs not only the perpetration of rape in wartime, but also the possibility for either perpetrator or victim to achieve subjectivity free from the burdens of brutally constraining gender norms.

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O'Hara, Daniel T., and Paul A. Bove. "Mask Plays: Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Fascist Imagination." boundary 2 17, no. 2 (1990): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/303568.

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Pugsley, Peter C. "Manufacturing the canon: Australia in the Chinese literary imagination." Journal of Australian Studies 28, no. 83 (January 2004): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050409387976.

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Burke, P. "The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock." Common Knowledge 14, no. 3 (October 1, 2008): 487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2008-013.

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King, John N. "Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination. David Loewenstein." Modern Philology 90, no. 2 (November 1992): 262–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/392064.

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Unwin, T. "Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris." French Studies 64, no. 1 (December 17, 2009): 97–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/knp221.

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Katz, S. "Power and Powerlessness: Niagara, Primitivism, and the Hebrew Literary Imagination." Modern Judaism 34, no. 2 (April 2, 2014): 233–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mj/kju003.

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Islas, Maya. "Emily Dickinson: Personal Impressions through Imagination." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 10, no. 2 (January 1997): 46–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08957699709602282.

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Bach, Jonathan, Heather L. Dichter, Kirkland Alexander Fulk, Alexander Wochnik, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and Carol Hager. "Book Reviews." German Politics and Society 34, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2016.340305.

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Jon Berndt Olsen, Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015) Reviewed by Jonathan BachMicahel Krüger, Christian Becker, and Stefan Nielsen, German Sports, Doping, and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) Reviewed by Heather L. DichterSusanne Rinner. The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013) Reviewed by Kirkland Alexander FulkKristen Kopp, Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012) Reviewed by Alexander WochnikSean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann, eds., Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture (Rochester: Camden House, 2012). Reviewed by Wilko Graf von HardenbergFrank Uekötter, The Greenest Nation? A New History of German Environmentalism (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014). Reviewed by Carol Hager

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Nardo, Anna K. "Romola and Milton: A Cultural History of Rewriting." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53, no. 3 (December 1, 1998): 328–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903043.

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George Eliot's novel of fifteenth-century Florence, Romola, represents her struggles with both the history of Western culture and her real and literary fathers by reimagining Milton's life and thought. As heir to both Renaissance humanism and Reformation zeal, as a central historical link between fifteenth-century Florence and Victorian England, as the patriarch of English letters, and as the father of rebellious daughters, Milton is the unacknowledged father in Romola, and the stories of his family are woven into the fabric of the novel. Recovering the cultural history of these stories-retold by biographers for two centuries and fictionalized throughout the nineteenth century-allows us to historicize and expand Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's insight that Milton is present in Romola, but also to confute their widely accepted conclusion (quoting Harold Bloom) that Milton was for Eliot, as for other women writers, "the great Inhibitor, the Sphinx who strangles even strong imaginations in their cradles."

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Chamberland, Celeste. "David E. Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 265. $85.00 (cloth)." Journal of British Studies 47, no. 4 (October 2008): 942–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/592905.

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Hutt, Michael. "Revealing What Is Dear: The Post-Earthquake Iconization of the Dharahara, Kathmandu." Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 03 (June 24, 2019): 549–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911819000172.

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On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation not only of the disaster but also of a national determination to recover and rebuild. Drawing upon media and literary discourse in the Nepali language, this article asks why the Dharahara tower, rather than the country's severely damaged World Heritage sites, loomed so large in the Nepali imagination in the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake, and why it became a rallying point for a resurgence of Nepali hill nationalism.

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Oripeloye, Henri. "Factional realities in Remi Raji's Gather My Blood Rivers of Song." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 170–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.11.

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This paper explores the transformative vision of the Nigerian poet, Remi Raji from imaginative mooring in his earlier works to factional realities in Gather My Blood Rivers of Song published in 2009. In some poems in this collection, Raji embraces factional realities as he grapples with the narration of actual existence in Nigeria. This signifies a movement away from the speculative construct of the imagination as he presents the tangible properties of events, not as history, but the facts in reality. This differentiates him from other writers who merely re-echo or document events. Based on the materialist frame of reference presented in some of the poems in this collection, Raji is able to enact plausible narrations that have identifiable referentiality through which he guides his poetic presenta- tion of actual human existence.

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Travnikov, Semyon. "The Aura of History and the Dialectical Imagination in Walter Benjamin’s Passages." Philosophical Literary Journal Logos 28, no. 1 (2018): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2018-1-217-230.

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Brantley, Richard E. "The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination. Eric G. Wilson." Wordsworth Circle 34, no. 4 (September 2003): 188–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24045022.

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Foulcher, Keith. "Biography, history and the Indonesian novel : Reading Salah Asuhan." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 161, no. 2 (2009): 247–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003709.

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The novel Salah Asuhan (Wrong Upbringing), written by the Indonesian nationalist politician and journalist Abdoel Moeis, has long held an honoured place in the modern Indonesian literary canon. It was originally published in 1928 by Balai Poestaka, the Netherlands Indies government printing house, and by 1995 it had been reprinted twenty-three times. In summary form, it has been studied by generations of Indonesian schoolchildren, and in 1972 it was adapted by Asrul Sani as a successful feature film. Critics and historians of modern Indonesian literature have always regarded Salah Asuhan as a literary milestone. It is admired for the maturity of its author’s literary imagination, as well as the modernity of its language and style. In linguistic terms, it is seen as one of the pioneering literary expressions of the language which was designated as Bahasa Indonesia in the very year of the novel’s publication. It exercises an additional fascination for literary critics and historians because of the circumstances of its publication. The form in which it was originally written is now unknown, for the novel was only published after a lengthy delay and a series of revisions which the author made to the text after seeing his manuscript languish for more than a year under the scrutiny of Balai Poestaka’s editors. As a result, the original conception of Salah Asuhan remains a mystery. Indeed, it is one of the greatest puzzles in a literary history that is so full of documentary lacunae that its serious study remains a source of ongoing challenge and frustration.

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Heynders, Odile. "The Everyday Life of a European Man: Knausgård’s Literary Project as Social Imagination." International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 6, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/hcm.544.

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Between 2009 and 2011, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård published a monumental novel project in six parts (over 3,500 pages) in which he described the minutiae of daily life: family troubles, ordinary routines, everyday discourse, drinking, strolling through town and so on. The literary project became a media sensation with translations in many languages, readers all over the Western world, and a lot of interviews and reviews to be found online. Why were the books so successful; what is it in them that engages readers? Drawing on theories of sociologist C. Wright Mills and philosopher Henri Lefebvre, this article argues that this ambitious as well as paradoxical literary project sheds light on the social and cultural position of the late modern subject in a European middle class. Knausgård in his self-narration creates an Everyman, while at the same time fashioning a self as an obsessed artist that is everything but ordinary. In a crucial part of the final book, Knausgård shows us Adolf Hitler as a bitter young man, but also as someone ‘whose youth resembles my own’. Here the self-positioning relates to ongoing European history as well as to the lack of historical perspective in our current age.

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Seeger, Sean, and Daniel Davison-Vecchione. "Dystopian literature and the sociological imagination." Thesis Eleven 155, no. 1 (November 16, 2019): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619888664.

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This article argues that sociologists have much to gain from a fuller engagement with dystopian literature. This is because (i) the speculation in dystopian literature tends to be more grounded in empirical social reality than in the case of utopian literature, and (ii) the literary conventions of the dystopia more readily illustrate the relationship between the inner life of the individual and the greater whole of social-historical reality. These conventional features mean dystopian literature is especially attuned to how historically-conditioned social forces shape the inner life and personal experience of the individual, and how acts of individuals can, in turn, shape the social structures in which they are situated. In other words, dystopian literature is a potent exercise of what C. Wright Mills famously termed ‘the sociological imagination’.

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Watts, Andrew. "Balzac’s Love Letters: Correspondence and the Literary Imagination. By Ewa Szypula." French Studies 72, no. 4 (September 3, 2018): 610–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/kny193.

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Hamill, Thomas A. "Jeffrey Hill. Sport and the Literary Imagination: Essays in History, Literature, and Sport. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. Pp. 216. $47.95 (paper)." Journal of British Studies 47, no. 4 (October 2008): 977–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/592928.

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Long, Hoyt. "Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan: Toward a Hidden History of Public Space." Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 3 (August 2011): 754–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911811000891.

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Histories of public space generally assume a strong correlation between the health of a nation's civil society and the vibrancy of its public sites, in so much as the latter provide an observable venue for free assembly and popular protest. This essay, while not opposing such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is Japanese provincial writer Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) and his “Poran no hiroba” (Poran's Square), which survives as a piece of school theater and an evolving prose narrative about a rural youth who reclaims for his agrarian community a site of shared assembly. By interrogating public space as an object of the literary and theatrical imagination, specifically in the context of interwar rural Japan, the author argues that its less visible aspects have much to tell us about its relation to civil society, both perceived and actual, in the waning years of “Imperial Democracy.”

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MCMAHON, CHRISTINA S. "Mimesis and the Historical Imagination: (Re)Staging History in Cape Verde, West Africa." Theatre Research International 33, no. 1 (March 2008): 20–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883307003379.

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This article examines what is at stake when performers and playwright critically transfigure oral histories when staging them theatrically. Representations of race and colonial history are integral to a nation's conception of its own cultural identity. These issues are at the forefront of many theatre productions in Cape Verde, an intensely creolized West African nation whose islands bear traces of the Europeans and Africans who have commingled there for centuries. The article examines two performances rooted in Cape Verdean history that challenge existing theoretical paradigms for the mimetic relationship between actors and the historical personae they portray onstage. Proposing the concept of the ‘historical imagination’, it explores how theatre artists self-consciously alter the local history they circulate to an international theatre festival stage and, concomitantly, how the theatre festival context and media coverage profoundly impact how national history is told within a global performance arena.

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Hu, Qiulei. "In Search of a Perfect Match: Jian’an (196-220) Writing about Women and the Formation of a Literati Community." NAN Nü 21, no. 2 (December 11, 2019): 194–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00212p02.

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AbstractThe pursuit of divine women or women with divine beauty is a common theme in the earliest works of Chinese literature. Many fu (rhapsodies) composed at the Western Han courts feature the speaker’s failed pursuit of a beautiful woman. Yet during the Jian’an period, the image of a seductive yet inaccessible woman lost its prominence in the literary imagination and was replaced by a lonely beauty yearning for a worthy match and lamenting the swift passage of time. This transformation had much to do with the social and cultural transitions of this particular historical moment. This article places Jian’an representations of women in the context of group composition and literary communication at the Cao courts, and discusses the literary and political implications of these representations in comparison with previous court writing about women. The article argues that under a new environment of court writing, Jian’an literati transformed the image of beautiful women from the embodiment of imperial power and privilege into the symbol of their ideal personality and shared values. Writing about women became a crucial means to forming a literary and political community, and defining that community’s values and principles in a troubled time.

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Robertson, Sam. "John Hewitt's allegorical imagination." Irish Studies Review 17, no. 2 (May 2009): 167–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670880902885388.

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Phillips, Tom. "Unapprehended relations." Classical Receptions Journal 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/clz024.

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Abstract This article addresses P.B. Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Mercury’ and allusions to classical literature in ‘Ode to Liberty’. Congruities emerge between Shelley’s poetic practice, his conception of poetry’s social role, and his understanding of the relationship between antiquity and the present. When translating and reshaping ancient Greek poetry, he brings to the surface morally significant features of that poetry which only emerge in the dialogues that his writing creates. In doing so, he enacts literary history as a process that both reflects and enables expansions of the moral imagination.

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Laughlin, Fiona Mc. "The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal. By Tobias Warner." French Studies 74, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 494. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/knaa097.

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Dennis, Michael. "Race and the Southern Imagination: Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered." Canadian Review of American Studies 29, no. 3 (January 1999): 109–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-029-03-05.

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