Journal articles: 'Isolation in gothic landscapes'

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Laduke, Aaron. ""There's Never Been Much Use for Reality Out Here": Theorizing a Great Plains Regional Gothic in Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories." Great Plains Quarterly 44, no. 1 (January 2024): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2024.a941592.

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Abstract: Great Plains literature has long been dominated by the pioneer ideal put forth by authors such as Willa Cather. This essay claims that a thread of contemporary authors of the region are now challenging these myths and creating works that engage a repressed history of the Great Plains through a use of the Gothic genre. In her three collections of Wyoming stories, Annie Proulx creates a sober picture of the region that focuses on painful aspects such as isolation, violence, and an unforgiving landscape. Her fiction makes use of a wide range of Gothic tropes and builds on the tradition of the Southern Gothic. After defining a Great Plains Gothic and examining Proulx's work, the essay concludes by exploring other contemporary Plains writers working in a Gothic mode and countering mythic depictions of the region, several of whom take a particular focus on the repressed history concerning the oppression of Native Americans.

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Brabon, Benjamin A. "Surveying Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Landscapes." Literature Compass 3, no. 4 (July 2006): 840–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00357.x.

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NG, LAY SION. "The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading." F1000Research 10 (December 15, 2021): 1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75482.1.

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This article uncovers the gothic tropes manifest in the “rotten” food, human bodies, landscapes, and rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms through an eco-gothic perspective. It demonstrates how the rotten food, the disjointed bodies, the broken landscapes, and the gothic rain can be viewed in the novel as counter-narratives against the narratives of war, the military, and modern medicine. The first part of this article suggests interpreting war as a form of cannibalism by exploring the representations of rotten food and the connection between eating and killing. Next, the author focuses on how the body is fragmented both metaphorically and literally by the discourse of war, the military, and medical science. The third part uncovers the non-anthropocentric consciousness embedded within the protagonist’s narrative, followed by the gothicizing and romanticization of nature in the fourth section. Here, the protagonist’s linking of the human body to the natural landscape, the descriptions of the gothic rain, and the romanticized snow—all these, as the author argues, can be interpreted as a collective resistance against industrial, anthropocentric warfare.

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Ng, Lay Sion. "The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading." F1000Research 10 (November 23, 2022): 1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75482.2.

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This article uncovers the gothic tropes manifest in the “rotten” food, human bodies, landscapes, and rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms through an eco-gothic perspective. It demonstrates how the rotten food, the disjointed bodies, the broken landscapes, and the gothic rain can be viewed in the novel as counter-narratives against the narratives of war, the military, and modern medicine. The first part of this article suggests interpreting war as a form of cannibalism by exploring the representations of rotten food and the connection between eating and killing. Next, the author focuses on how the body is fragmented both metaphorically and literally by the discourse of war, the military, and medical science. The third part uncovers the non-anthropocentric consciousness embedded within the protagonist’s narrative, followed by the gothicizing and romanticization of nature in the fourth section. Here, the protagonist’s linking of the human body to the natural landscape, the descriptions of the gothic rain, and the romanticized snow—all these, as the author argues, can be interpreted as a collective resistance against industrial, anthropocentric warfare.

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Manning, Paul. "Somewhere in the outer darkness: Locating the frontier (eco)gothic of Ambrose Bierce." Horror Studies 14, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host_00069_1.

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This article examines the pioneering American weird literature writer Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) through the critical lens of the ecogothic, arguing that he resituates the gothic within the real or imagined landscapes of the American frontier, his ‘frontier gothic’ epitomized by the image of ‘the cabin in the woods’. In his writings, the frontier gothic becomes transitional boundary genre on the ‘frontier’ between the earlier gothic and later folk horror, where not just isolated cabins of lone prospectors, but whole rural communities find themselves in a similarly abject, ruinous moral condition. The liminal ‘frontier’ nature of the ecogothic is repeated in miniature in the specific way in which abandoned cabins in isolated gulches become ecogothic ‘day-old’ ruins, quite distinct from a gothic ruin in its lacking civilized boundaries between interior and exterior, culture and nature, epitomized by the image of ‘blank windows’ and doorless doorways.

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Elbert, Monika. "Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes." Text Matters, no. 6 (November 23, 2016): 53–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2016-0004.

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In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered in the light of EcoGothic considerations. The essay shows how Fuller’s journey disillusioned her about progress and led to abandoning the serene vision of nature and landscapes reflected in the works of Transcendentalists. The destruction of nature and landscape verging on an ecological catastrophe is presented by Fuller in the perspective of the Gothic, as a price for the technological development driven by the capitalist economy. The Gothic character of Summer on the Lakes derives from the mental condition of the writer and a pessimistic vision arising from the debunking of the myth of America as a virgin land. Fuller’s work constitutes an EcoGothic tribute to the indigenous inhabitants of America—but also a Gothic live burial of the Native Americans who do still live in the regions she visits—as well as to Mariana and Frederica, unusual and gothicized women excluded from society. By bringing together Fuller’s observations about nature, indigenous peoples and marginalized women, the essay shows how Fuller’s text prophetically announces the beginning of the end of the American environment.

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Ford, Susan Allen. "Ruined Landscapes, Flooding Tunnels, Dark Paths: Sara Paretsky's Gothic Vision." Clues: A Journal of Detection 25, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/clus.25.2.7-8.

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Cummings, Lindsay B. "Intimacy and Isolation in Jen Silverman’s Gothic Worlds." Modern Drama 63, no. 2 (May 2020): 154–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.63.2.1042.

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Yiannitsaros, Christopher. "Unhomely Counties: Gothic Surveillance and Incarceration in the Villages of Agatha Christie." Gothic Studies 23, no. 1 (March 2021): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0079.

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This article examines the ways in which Agatha Christie's fictional villages may be interpreted as fundamentally gothic spaces. It makes the case that within the novels The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) and The Moving Finger (1943), outdoor spaces do not offer the potential release from captivity that is set out in more traditional gothic paradigms. Instead, exterior landscapes surrounding and connecting homes function as a continuation of domestic interiority, thus acting as able accomplices in a gothic transformation of ‘home’ into ‘prison’. By examining the shifting meanings of panoptic surveillance present within these villages, and the outward extension of private family romances into more public forms of cruelty and humiliation, this article suggests that far from creating idyllic exemplars of English rurality, Christie's fictional villages work to unmask the dark, ‘unhomely’ core that lies buried at the very heart of the English ‘Home Counties’.

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Vasil’yeva, El’mira V. "ON THE PECULIARITIES OF CHRONOTOPE IN NEW ENGLAND GOTHIC: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE BY SHIRLEY HARDIE JACKSON." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 1 (2020): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-1-87-92.

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The article deals with Mikhail Bakhtin’s term «the chronotope of the castle» analysed on the material of two New England Gothic novels – «The House of the Seven Gables» by Nathaniel Hawthorne and «The Haunting of Hill House» by Shirley Hardie Jackson. The author assumes that chronotope is not just a spacetime characteristic, but a set of motifs – the motive of dark past, the motif of spatial and temporal isolation, and the motif of «sentient» house. All of these motifs were used by classic Gothic novel writers of the 1760s to 1830s, and were as well employed in later quasi-Gothic texts. At the turn of the 19th century, Gothic novel commenced its parallel development in American literature, where it subsequently became one of the national genres. American writers aspired to adapt Gothic poetics to the cultural context of the country. For instance, in New England Gothic fi ction, the chronotope of the castle was transformed into the chronotope of the «bad» house. However, the set of motifs has remained the same: both Hawthorne and Jackson consistently used the motifs, provided by British Gothic fi ction, yet they further explored them and came up with their own interpretations.

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Dang, Trang, Elizabeth Parker, and Michelle Poland. "EcoGothic: An Interview with Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland." REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 3, no. 2 (May 15, 2022): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/reden.2022.3.1822.

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Elizabeth Parker is the author of the monograph The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination, published by Palgrave Gothic in March 2020. She is the founding editor of the open-access journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothicand television editor for The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. She has co-organised several conferences on space, place, and the relationship between the Gothic and the more-than-human, has published her work in various titles such as Plant Horror!: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film and Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, and is co-editor of Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place. She has taught English Literature and courses on Popular Culture at a number of universities across the UK and Ireland, and currently works in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at St Mary’s University Twickenham. Michelle Poland is the Research Impact Manager at Nottingham Trent University, a role which involves supporting researchers across the institution to identify ways than can enable their research to make a meaningful difference in the world. Michelle is a passionate advocate for the role research plays in enhancing our prosperity, health, and quality of life and is currently working towards developing impact from her own research on the Gothic, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene. She received her PhD in English from the University of Lincoln in 2019, is Co-Editor of the open-access peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Gothic Nature, and has published work in Critical Survey and Green Letters.

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Passey, Joan. "Gothic Landscapes and Seascapes: Dark Regions in Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Secret." Studies in Gothic Fiction 5, no. 2 (January 27, 2017): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18573/j.2016.10106.

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Haider, Amna. "War Trauma and Gothic Landscapes of Dispossession and Dislocation in Pat Barker'sRegenerationTrilogy." Gothic Studies 14, no. 2 (November 2012): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/gs.14.2.5.

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Aravindan, Aswathy M., and Sneha Mishra. "Haunted Landscapes and Gothic Characters: An Ecogothic Reading of László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó." International Journal of Literary Humanities 23, no. 1 (2024): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v23i01/61-75.

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Waham, Jihad Jaafar. "The Art of Gothic Literature: An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." International Linguistics Research 6, no. 2 (April 25, 2023): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v6n2p1.

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This article examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as an example of Gothic literature. The author analyzes the novel's themes, characters, and literary devices to explore how Shelley uses Gothic elements to create a complex and emotionally resonant work. The article also delves into the historical and cultural context in which the novel was written, highlighting the influence of Romanticism and Enlightenment philosophy. Ultimately, the article argues that Frankenstein is a masterpiece of Gothic literature that continues to captivate readers and inspire new interpretations. In "The Art of Gothic Literature: An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," the author examines Shelley's famous novel and its contribution to the Gothic literary tradition. The article explores the novel's themes, including the dangers of scientific progress, the limits of human knowledge, and the consequences of playing god. The author also analyzes the novel's structure, characterization, and use of symbolism, highlighting the ways in which Shelley draws upon Gothic conventions while also subverting them. Ultimately, the article argues that Frankenstein remains a powerful and influential work of Gothic literature that continues to captivate readers more than two centuries after its publication. This article analyzes Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" through the lens of gothic literature. The author explores how Shelley incorporates various gothic elements such as supernatural occurrences, grotesque imagery, and emotional intensity to create a dark and unsettling atmosphere. The article also delves into the themes of the novel, including the dangers of playing god and the isolation and alienation experienced by the creature. Through a close reading of the text, the author highlights the literary techniques that Shelley employs to convey these themes and to create a timeless work of gothic literature. Ultimately, the article argues that "Frankenstein" remains a relevant and powerful example of the gothic genre due to its ability to evoke fear, explore complex themes, and showcase the artistry of its author.

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SNELL, K. D. M., and RACHAEL JONES. "Churchyard Memorials, ‘Dispensing with God Gradually’: Rustication, Decline of the Gothic and the Emergence of Art Deco in the British Isles." Rural History 29, no. 1 (March 19, 2018): 45–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793318000031.

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Abstract:This article considers rusticated memorials in many churchyards and cemeteries in England and Wales, between c. 1850 and the present day, analysing their forms, chronology, and their wider social and artistic significances. These memorials have hitherto been a neglected form among British memorial styles. The discussion here focuses on the English Midlands, Kensal Green Cemetery (London), and Montgomeryshire in Wales. It appraises how such memorial rustication may relate to changing attitudes to rurality, ‘natural’ landscapes, and secularisation over time. As an analysis of shifting memorial tastes, the article assesses the chronology of rustication against the periodisation of two more dominant memorial types: namely Gothic memorials, which prevailed in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Art Deco memorials, which gained popularity from the 1920s. It appraises regional differences in memorial style change, showing little English and Welsh variation in this after the mid-nineteenth century. There is attention to the hitherto little studied decline of the Gothic, and to the wider significance of the more secularised memorial forms that followed it. The role of these Gothic, rusticated, and Art Deco memorials for an understanding of social, attitudinal, religious and secularising change is emphasised.

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Dupin, Leonardo Vilaça, and Beatriz Ribeiro Machado. "Landscapes of Isolation and Disaster in Brazil." NACLA Report on the Americas 52, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 324–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2020.1809102.

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Conlon, David. "True Crime’s Gothic Realism: Uncanny Masculinities, Haunted Meatscapes, and the Aesthetics of Adjacency in Selva Almada’s Chicas muertas." Crime Fiction Studies 5, no. 2 (September 2024): 136–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2024.0120.

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This article analyses Selva Almada’s Chicas muertas (2014), a nonfiction crime novel that centres on three femicides that occurred in 1980s Argentina. While the novel can be classified as true crime, the article is concerned with uncovering a discernible tension between true crime’s commitment to a rationalist presentation of facts, on the one hand, and the text’s Gothic elements, on the other. Far from eliding true crime’s reality principle, however, these elements are core to Almada’s detective work and can be construed as part of a project whose objective is to cognitively and affectively map femicide. By favouring a logic of synchronicity and adjacency over diachronicity and causality, Almada exposes the limitations of inscribing femicide within a conventional investigative framework, while also unveiling the uncanny aspects to the structures and figurative landscapes that accompany and abet femicide. The article goes on to make some general observations about true crime as Gothic realism.

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Calio, Gianluca. "“None of Them Knows About Floods or Anything About the Rivers:” Monstrous Kinships and Agency in Michael McDowell’s The Flood and The Levee." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 89 (2024): 137–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2024.89.08.

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This paper explores the disruption of the human/non-human binary in Michael McDowell’s Blackwater series, focusing on how the character of Elinor Dammert challenges traditional distinctions between humans and environment. Set in the Southern Gothic landscape of Lower Alabama, the analysis scrutinizes Elinor’s relationship with the region’s fluvial environment, emphasizing her role as a complex, shape-shifting gothic figure. Emerging mysteriously from the river after a flood, Elinor’s actions reflect a deep connection with both the human and non-human worlds, as she intervenes against anthropogenic alterations, particularly deforestation and proposed hydrogeological projects. By highlighting Elinor’s efforts to disrupt destructive human practices, the paper argues that her character can be seen as attempting to create kinship between humans and the landscape of Perdido, embodying an ecoGothic figure that transcends moral binaries. Elinor’s interventions will therefore reveal an alternative form of ecological agency that emphasizes kin-making rather than domination or revenge. portray both the wonders and horrors of nautical landscapes, Deep Blue Sea (1999) and The

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Ricketts. "The Matrix Matters: Effective Isolation in Fragmented Landscapes." American Naturalist 158, no. 1 (2001): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3078900.

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Ricketts, Taylor H. "The Matrix Matters: Effective Isolation in Fragmented Landscapes." American Naturalist 158, no. 1 (July 2001): 87–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/320863.

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Lawrenson, Sonja, and Matt Foley. "From Melmoth to Maqroll: The Wanderer in Latin America." Gothic Studies 26, no. 2 (July 2024): 214–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2024.0198.

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From Roberto Jorge Payró’s Violines y toneles (1908) to Álvaro Mutis’s Maqroll novellas (1986–1993), Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) repeatedly resurfaces across Latin America’s shifting cultural landscapes of the twentieth century. This article argues that the text’s influence testifies to the malleability and dynamism of Gothic’s transnational transmission from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on the concept of ‘globalgothic’, it traces the elaborate nexus of cultural and political channels through which Melmoth circulated in Latin America. The mapping of Melmoth’s journey across Latin America reveals a world of gothic interchange that traverses and, at times, transcends national, temporal, and generic boundaries. In so doing, this article situates the text and its afterlives within an intricate yet uneven economy of colonial and postcolonial exchange where generic and national hierarchies are often mutually reinforcing but equally unstable. Ultimately, Melmoth’s Latin American afterlives evidence a dynamic interplay between nation, genre, and form in the globalgothic.

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Nally, Claire, and Matthew Worley. "Editors’ introduction." Punk & Post-Punk 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2024): 143–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/punk_00259_2.

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This introduction offers a way into Punk & Post-Punk’s Special Issue on ‘Goth Histories’. It points to recent traces of the subculture in popular culture and recognises key trends in a relatively vibrant scholarship. The issue was stimulated by a discussion between the two editors as to the whys and wherefores of this at a conference of the Subcultures Network in April 2023. The collected articles hope to give some sense of the different ways by which the Gothic retains a punk-inflected presence into the twenty-first century. Long may it continue to haunt our mindscapes, mediascapes and landscapes.

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Baydikov, Ivan A. "Anthropogenic landscapes of the Chornobyl radiation-ecological biosphere reserve." Physical Geography and Geomorphology 44, no. 2 (2021): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/phgg.2021.4-6.03.

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The isolation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone within the country and the consequent lack of intensive anthropogenic impacts on its landscapes made it possible to study them in detail, in particular by observing the restoration of their (landscapes) anthropogenic differences to the natural / conditional natural state in real time. This study was carried out within the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, in the landscape structure of which the main representative landscape complexes of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are presented, including their anthropogenic deviations. Within the territory of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, seven main landscapes are distinguished: Ivankivsky, Dymersko-Makarivsky, Korogodsko-Vilchansky, Uzhsky, Shepelychsky, Gdensky, Nizhnepripyatsky (Davidchuk et al., 2011). Each of these landscapes structurally includes anthropogenized forest, agricultural, water, as well as – industrial (primarily road) and residential landscape complexes (including abandoned settlements). Isolation and determination of features of anthropogenized differences of Chernobyl landscapes, by studying the current state of landscape complexes, representative of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl NPP, is the main purpose of this study. The analysis of the landscapes of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve was carried out at the level of tracts and localities, taking into account the features of aboriginal phyto- and zoobiota as important indicators of the state and degree of anthropogenic transformation of existing landscapes. For example, the degree of anthropogenization of forest (forest phytovariant) landscape complexes should be determined depending on the remoteness of their current state relative to their own initial (natural) state - taking into account changes in species composition. The peculiarities of the dynamics of changes in landscape complexes depending on the degree of anthropogenic influences on them are also noted. In general, the structure of anthropogenic landscapes within the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve is characterized by significant diversity due to the specifics and intensity of existing anthropogenic impacts, including due to a certain isolation of this area. This will contribute to the partial restoration of existing anthropogenically altered landscapes to a conditionally natural state.

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Cove, Patricia. "‘The Earth's Deep Entrails’: Gothic Landscapes and Grotesque Bodies in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." Gothic Studies 15, no. 2 (November 2013): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/gs.15.2.2.

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Canani, Marco. "Neo-Gothic and Neo-Romantic Features in Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein." CounterText 10, no. 2 (August 2024): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2024.0343.

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has been the object of multiple afterlives since Richard Brinsley Peake’s Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein was staged in 1823. Over the past two centuries, literary, dramatic, and multimedia adaptations of the novel have certainly fulfilled Mary Shelley’s hope that her ‘hideous progeny’ might ‘go forth and prosper’. In both highbrow and lowbrow revisitations, however, it is usually the Creature that undergoes various metamorphic processes. This article focuses on a different metamorphosis of Shelley’s novel, Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008), which refashions the story of the creator. Victor’s ambition and his downfall abandon Ingolstadt and the sublime landscapes of Mont Blanc to be re-located in nineteenth-century England, where the scientist finds his alterego in Percy Bysshe Shelley and meets his own creator, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. After discussing the novel in the context of postmodern theory, I contend that Ackroyd’s taste for pastiche has several implications. His Casebook rests on a complex narrative palimpsest made of allusions, which transforms the conventions of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Gothic novels and provides a negotiated version of their tropes that is simultaneously ‘Neo-Gothic’ and ‘Neo-Romantic’.

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van Strien, M. J., R. Holderegger, and H. J. Van Heck. "Isolation-by-distance in landscapes: considerations for landscape genetics." Heredity 114, no. 1 (July 23, 2014): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2014.62.

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Ritter, Camila D., Camila C. Ribas, Juliana Menger, Sergio H. Borges, Christine D. Bacon, Jean P. Metzger, John Bates, and Cintia Cornelius. "Landscape configuration of an Amazonian island-like ecosystem drives population structure and genetic diversity of a habitat-specialist bird." Landscape Ecology 36, no. 9 (June 19, 2021): 2565–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01281-z.

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Abstract Context Amazonian white-sand ecosystems (campinas) are open vegetation patches which form a natural island-like system in a matrix of tropical rainforest. Due to a clear distinction from the surrounding matrix, the spatial characteristics of campina patches may affect the genetic diversity and composition of their specialized organisms, such as the small and endemic passerine Elaenia ruficeps. Objectives To estimate the relative contribution of the current extension, configuration and geographical context of campina patches to the patterns of genetic diversity and population structure of E. ruficeps. Methods We sampled individuals of E. ruficeps from three landscapes in central Amazonia with contrasting campina spatial distribution, from landscapes with large and connected patches to landscapes with small and isolated patches. We estimated population structure, genetic diversity, and contemporary and historical migration within and among the three landscapes and used landscape metrics as predictor variables. Furthermore, we estimated genetic isolation by distance and resistance within landscapes. Results We identified three genetically distinct populations with asymmetrical gene flow among landscapes and a decreasing migration rate with distance. Within each landscape, we found low differentiation without genetic isolation by distance nor by resistance. In contrast, we found differentiation and spatial correlation between landscapes. Conclusions Together with previous studies, the population dynamics of E. ruficeps suggests that both regional context and landscape structure shape the connectivity among populations of campina specialist birds. Also, the spatial distribution of Amazonian landscapes, together with their associated biota, has changed in response to climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene.

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Hamad, Fatimah Harbi, and Mishaal Harb Mkhailef. "Orientalist Desires and Gothic Manifestations: A Study of William Beckford's 'Vathek'." BATARA DIDI : English Language Journal 3, no. 2 (August 26, 2024): 55–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.56209/badi.v3i2.109.

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This study offers a critical analysis of Gothic motifs and Orientalist themes in William Beckford’s Vathek with a view of how the latter contributes to the construction and reproduction of the ideological boundaries between the East and the West which are underpinned by cultural and moral differentialism. This way, the research illustrates how fear, horror and the supernatural are mobilised by Beckford to represent the Oriental as a space that is inherently dangerous and spiritually degenerate. The focus is also made on how the settings of the novel the confusing, infernal halls of Eblis, the vast, mysterious landscapes are not just the background, but characters themselves who embody and intensify the main character’s moral and spiritual degeneration. Furthermore, the penetration provided by the study gives insights as to how figures such as Nouronihar and Carathis exemplify yet disrupt the Orientalist stereotype of the fatal female. Due to this research, the interconnectivity between Gothic and Orientalist Studies has been presented, and it gives an insight into how socio-political imperialisms such as culture supremacy are perpetuated by Vathek. In other words, the findings enrich extant scholarly debate by offering an analytic of how the two architectonic styles weave together in the novel, to create cultural and moral ideologies.

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Reeves, Nancee. "Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and Environment. Edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism. Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden." Gothic Studies 22, no. 2 (July 2020): 214–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0050.

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Hassall, Linda. "Performance and the politics of distance: Exploring the psychology of identity and culture in politicized Australian performance landscapes." Applied Theatre Research 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 185–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/atr_00015_1.

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Abstract The politics of distance in Australia has shaped our history and informed the psychological landscape of Australian cultural identity since settlement and colonization. Distance is a subjective space for Australians, and as a result the national subjectivity can cause significant problems for immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and exiles from 'other' homelands who experience a disjunction of place and culture, and seek sanctuary. Drawing on current post-colonial Australian anxieties, this research investigates Australian concepts of distance alongside what has become a politically contested Australian racial and cultural agenda. Analysing these issues through the lens of Australian Gothic drama, the article also integrates examples from Hassall's performance research, Salvation (2013), to support the discussion.

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Pfaender, Jobst, Renny K. Hadiaty, Ulrich K. Schliewen, and Fabian Herder. "Rugged adaptive landscapes shape a complex, sympatric radiation." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1822 (January 13, 2016): 20152342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2342.

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Strong disruptive ecological selection can initiate speciation, even in the absence of physical isolation of diverging populations. Species evolving under disruptive ecological selection are expected to be ecologically distinct but, at least initially, genetically weakly differentiated. Strong selection and the associated fitness advantages of narrowly adapted individuals, coupled with assortative mating, are predicted to overcome the homogenizing effects of gene flow. Theoretical plausibility is, however, contrasted by limited evidence for the existence of rugged adaptive landscapes in nature. We found evidence for multiple, disruptive ecological selection regimes that have promoted divergence in the sympatric, incipient radiation of ‘sharpfin’ sailfin silverside fishes in ancient Lake Matano (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Various modes of ecological specialization have led to adaptive morphological differences between the species, and differently adapted morphs display significant but incomplete reproductive isolation. Individual fitness and variation in morphological key characters show that disruptive selection shapes a rugged adaptive landscape in this small but complex incipient lake fish radiation.

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Boscolo, Danilo, and Jean Paul Metzger. "Isolation determines patterns of species presence in highly fragmented landscapes." Ecography 34, no. 6 (March 7, 2011): 1018–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06763.x.

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Lillington-Martin, Christopher. "PROCOPIUS ON THE STRUGGLE FOR DARA IN 530 AND ROME IN 537–38: RECONCILING TEXTS AND LANDSCAPES." Late Antique Archaeology 8, no. 2 (January 25, 2013): 599–630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134522-90000019a.

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This paper examines Procopius’ descriptions of Roman and Persian strategies to control Dara in 530 and Roman and Gothic strategies to control Rome in 537–38 by reconciling texts with the landscapes of the areas concerned, drawing on satellite imagery, cartography and field visits. The traditional approach to this history has been to use written sources only, but, as will be shown, these are subject to multiple interpretations. Study of the landscape provides a different, complementary perspective, which is in some ways more reliable, as the physical features have not changed too significantly over the centuries, and modern technology has opened up new ways of reading them. These two case studies strongly suggest that Procopius is reliable when he is interpreted carefully, and this has implications for studies of the many other events for which he is the main source.

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Timmermann, Achim. "Jean de Berry’s Croix Couverte at Beaucaire (Gard) in its Pan-European Architectural-Cultural Contexts." Acta Historiae Artium 62, no. 1 (April 7, 2022): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/170.2021.00003.

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This contribution explores a remarkable but very much understudied late medieval roadside monument, the so-called Croix Couverte near Beaucaire in the eastern Languedoc. not only is it one of the earliest extant structures erected in the novel Flamboyant Gothic style, it can also be conclusively linked to the patronage of Jean de Valois, Duke of Berry from 1360, and resident as Lieutenant du Roi at Beaucaire from 1382 to 1384. This study investigates the Croix within several rings of inquiry, which gradually widen as the discussion proceeds, beginning with its local context, and proceeding with a detailed examination of the monument’s place within several architectural traditions (roadside furniture, covered crosses especially; ciboria and honorific baldachins). In order to better comprehend its cutting-edge design, the Croix is then positioned within broader (micro-)architectural trends around 1400, a period often referred to as the age of International Gothic. The final part is devoted to some of the architecturally themed miniatures in Jean de Berry’s famous book of hours, the Très Riches Heures, which reflect and refract many of the broader themes of this study, including the “signing” of landscapes through roadside monuments; the simultaneous control and sanctification of certain locales; and the late medieval fascination with turriform and ciboriform structures in the framing of both the sacred and the political.

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Naaf, Tobias, Jannis Till Feigs, Siyu Huang, Jörg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Pieter De Frenne, et al. "Sensitivity to habitat fragmentation across European landscapes in three temperate forest herbs." Landscape Ecology 36, no. 10 (July 7, 2021): 2831–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01292-w.

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Abstract Context Evidence for effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on the viability of temperate forest herb populations in agricultural landscapes is so far based on population genetic studies of single species in single landscapes. However, forest herbs differ in their life histories, and landscapes have different environments, structures and histories, making generalizations difficult. Objectives We compare the response of three slow-colonizing forest herbs to habitat loss and fragmentation and set this in relation to differences in life-history traits, in particular their mating system and associated pollinators. Methods We analysed the herbs’ landscape-scale population genetic structure based on microsatellite markers from replicate forest fragments across seven European agricultural landscapes. Results All species responded to reductions in population size with a decrease in allelic richness and an increase in genetic differentiation among populations. Genetic differentiation also increased with enhanced spatial isolation. In addition, each species showed unique responses. Heterozygosity in the self-compatible Oxalis acetosella was reduced in smaller populations. The genetic diversity of Anemone nemorosa, whose main pollinators are less mobile, decreased with increasing spatial isolation, but not that of the bumblebee-pollinated Polygonatum multiflorum. Conclusions Our study indicates that habitat loss and fragmentation compromise the long-term viability of slow-colonizing forest herbs despite their ability to persist for many decades by clonal propagation. The distinct responses of the three species studied within the same landscapes confirm the need of multi-species approaches. The mobility of associated pollinators should be considered an important determinant of forest herbs’ sensitivity to habitat loss and fragmentation.

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Denysyk, Hryhoriy, Volodymyr Kanskyi, Viktoriia Kanska, Bohdan Denysyk, and Mykhailo Vinnytsia. "Anthropogenic landscapes of Ukraine and their reconstruction." Czasopismo Geograficzne 93, no. 3 (November 8, 2022): 417–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12657/czageo-93-16.

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The aim of the research was to analyze the structure of Ukraine’s anthropogenic landscape and the directions of its development for the purposes of further reconstruction and rational use. The current state of ten types of anthropogenic landscapes was assessed. In the research based on the maps of natural and contemporary landscapes, use was primarily made of historical and archaeological methods, including historical and genetic sequences. The present landscape of Ukraine can be described as the coexistence of three types of landscapes: natural, natural-anthropogenic and anthropogenic. Anthropogenic landscapes which are definitely dominating nowadays, started to be formed in the late Paleolithic. The classification of ten types of anthropogenic landscapes should be improved and supplemented as the new types of anthropogenic landscapes are created, e.g. garden and park landscapes. Anthropogenic landscapes do not exist in isolation, but interact with one another and with natural landscapes. What is particularly noteworthy is the reconstruction of the anthropogenic landscape of the Forest-Field zone. The restoration of landscapes should begin with the creation of an eco-network. The national ecological network is ineffective because it does not take into account anthropogenic landscape changes. The reconstruction of all types of anthropogenic landscapes must allow for their zonal and regional specificity as well as their cultural importance. The cultural landscape will be the basis of the new structure of the national eco-network and will increase its range.

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Schüepp, Christof, Felix Herzog, and Martin H. Entling. "Disentangling multiple drivers of pollination in a landscape-scale experiment." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1774 (January 7, 2014): 20132667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2667.

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Animal pollination is essential for the reproductive success of many wild and crop plants. Loss and isolation of (semi-)natural habitats in agricultural landscapes can cause declines of plants and pollinators and endanger pollination services. We investigated the independent effects of these drivers on pollination of young cherry trees in a landscape-scale experiment. We included (i) isolation of study trees from other cherry trees (up to 350 m), (ii) the amount of cherry trees in the landscape, (iii) the isolation from other woody habitats (up to 200 m) and (iv) the amount of woody habitats providing nesting and floral resources for pollinators. At the local scale, we considered effects of (v) cherry flower density and (vi) heterospecific flower density. Pollinators visited flowers more often in landscapes with high amount of woody habitat and at sites with lower isolation from the next cherry tree. Fruit set was reduced by isolation from the next cherry tree and by a high local density of heterospecific flowers but did not directly depend on pollinator visitation. These results reveal the importance of considering the plant's need for conspecific pollen and its pollen competition with co-flowering species rather than focusing only on pollinators’ habitat requirements and flower visitation. It proved to be important to disentangle habitat isolation from habitat loss, local from landscape-scale effects, and direct effects of pollen availability on fruit set from indirect effects via pollinator visitation to understand the delivery of an agriculturally important ecosystem service.

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Glasmeier, Amy K., and Tracey L. Farrigan. "Landscapes of Inequality: Spatial Segregation, Economic Isolation, and Contingent Residential Locations." Economic Geography 83, no. 3 (February 16, 2009): 221–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00352.x.

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Firmo, Catarina. "Lieux clos et paysages dans le théâtre de Ionesco : mémoires, rêves et évasions." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.11.

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"Enclosed Spaces and Landscapes in Ionesco’s Plays: Memories, Dreams and Escapes. In this study we aim to highlight the different stage spaces that are evoked by the memory of Ionesco’s characters. In Ionesco’s theatre, stage spaces representing ascent, escape, isolation and the abyss convey different symbols of time. We are interested in the theatrical dynamics of the alternation between the inside and the outside of stage spaces, as well as in their impact on the construction of memory. Keywords: Ionesco, memory, escape, landscapes, stage space "

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Ingram, Gordon Brent. "Lost Landscapes and the Spatial Contextualization of Queerness." UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 6 (May 1, 1994): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37694.

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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual1 habitation of outdoor and indoor environments has become a major topic in queer2 theory and spatial issues3 have come to represent new frontiers in the politics of our various communities. Homophobia, violence, and isolation in outdoor spaces arc coming to be framed as environmental problems. A host of possibilities for new alliances around queer space is emerging. But it is first necessary to ask a number of questions before specific interventions in the condition of outdoor areas can better define and strengthen our communities and improve our lives.

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Sheperd, B. Forrest, and Robert K. Swihart. "Spatial dynamics of fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in fragmented landscapes." Canadian Journal of Zoology 73, no. 11 (November 1, 1995): 2098–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z95-247.

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We examined the spatial dynamics of fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) occupying 12 woodland sites in a predominantly agricultural landscape of west-central Indiana. The 12 sites represented woodlands of varying degrees of isolation and size. Forty-nine adult fox squirrels were fitted with radio collars and monitored from May 1993 through September 1994. No movements of collared adults were observed between wooded sites during the study, although squirrels traveled 200–500 m from woodlots along hedgerows, and 2.6% of observations occurred in agricultural fields. Multiple regression revealed a positive linear relationship between home-range size and woodland size, with larger home ranges in the growing season. Home-range size was not related to woodland isolation, squirrel density, or sex. We found no evidence of spatial interactions between pairs of squirrels (i.e., male–male, male–female, female–female) at resolutions of 20, 40, or 100 m. Excursions beyond a core area were of relatively greater magnitude for squirrels occupying continuous forest. Agriculturally induced fragmentation of forests appears to restrict movements of adult fox squirrels, despite the well-documented ability of the species to persist in such a landscape.

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Hobbs, Richard J. "Landscapes, ecology and wildlife management in highly modified environments - an Australian perspective." Wildlife Research 32, no. 5 (2005): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr03037.

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Landscapes in southern Australia have been extensively modified by a variety of human activities, predominantly agriculture and urban development. Over much of the area, native vegetation has been replaced with agriculture or buildings and infrastructure. A continuum exists from areas that remain largely intact, but are modified in some way (e.g. forests managed for timber production), to areas where the remaining native vegetation is fragmented to varying degrees. Habitat management will vary across this continuum, depending on the degree of habitat loss and isolation. In areas outside the main zones of agricultural and urban development, the process of habitat loss and fragmentation is less in evidence. Here, instead, the landscapes remain apparently structurally intact, in that the native vegetation is not actually removed. However, these landscapes have also, in many cases, been significantly modified, particularly by pastoralism and related activities, to the extent that their value as habitat is impaired. Declining habitat value in northern landscapes may lead to the same types of functional fragmentation as found in the south. An examination of the differences and similarities between southern and northern landscapes can highlight what can be learned from the southern experience which may be of value in savanna landscapes. In both cases, the importance of considering impacts in relation to species-specific responses needs to be emphasised.

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Richards, Daniel, Thomas R. Etherington, Alexander Herzig, and Sandra Lavorel. "The Importance of Spatial Configuration When Restoring Intensive Production Landscapes for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Multifunctionality." Land 13, no. 4 (April 5, 2024): 460. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13040460.

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Intensive production landscapes provide low levels of many ecosystem services and support limited biodiversity, so they require restoration to enhance their multifunctionality. International guidelines suggest that restoration should aim to establish natural woody vegetation cover across 30% of landscapes. Such restoration may be implemented in varied spatial configurations and complemented by additional land use changes from intensive to extensive semi-natural pastoral grasslands. To restore multifunctional landscapes, we need to understand the impacts of restoration spatial configuration and complementary grassland extensification, both in isolation and in combination. We used a virtual landscape simulation to systematically analyse the impacts of alternative restoration strategies on the provision of nine indicators of ecosystem services and biodiversity, and the overall multifunctionality of the landscapes. All restored landscapes achieved improvements in the performance of individual ecosystem services and multifunctionality compared to the baseline. The benefits of a given restored natural vegetation effort were increased by adding extensive grassland and modifying the spatial configuration of restoration. Randomly distributed patterns of restoration provided higher multifunctionality than restoration adjacent to existing natural areas or as large land blocks. The virtual landscape approach allowed systematic exploration of alternative restoration strategies, providing a mechanistic understanding that will inform restoration tailored to local priorities and conditions.

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De Brún, Sorcha. "“In a Sea of Wonders:” Eastern Europe and Transylvania in the Irish-Language Translation of Dracula." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 70–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0006.

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Abstract The publication of the Irish-language translation of Dracula in 1933 by Seán Ó Cuirrín was a landmark moment in the history of Irish-language letters. This article takes as its starting point the idea that language is a central theme in Dracula. However, the representation of Transylvania in the translation marked a departure from Bram Stoker’s original. A masterful translation, one of its most salient features is Ó Cuirrín’s complex use of the Irish language, particularly in relation to Eastern European language, character, and landscapes. The article examines Ó Cuirrín’s prose and will explore how his approaches to concrete and abstract elements of the novel affect plot, character, and narration. The first section explores how Dracula is treated by Ó Cuirrín in the Irish translation and how this impacts the Count’s persona and his identity as Transylvanian. Through Ó Cuirrín’s use of idiom, alliteration, and proverb, it will be shown how Dracula’s character is reimagined, creating a more nuanced narrative than the original. The second section shows how Ó Cuirrín translates Jonathan Harker’s point of view in relation to Dracula. It shows that, through the use of figurative language, Ó Cuirrín develops the gothic element to Dracula’s character. The article then examines Ó Cuirrín’s translations of Transylvanian landscapes and soundscapes. It will show how Ó Cuirrín’s translation matched Stoker’s original work to near perfection, but with additional poetic techniques, and how Ó Cuirrín created a soundscape of horror throughout the entirety of the translation.

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Khubanova, A. M., V. B. Khubanov, and D. A. Miyagashev. "Zoning of Desert, Steppe, Steppe-Forest and Forest Ecosystems By Carbon And Nitrogen Isotope in Mongolia and Western Transbaikalia." GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY 16, no. 3 (October 8, 2023): 14–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2023-2720.

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The Mongolian–Transbaikalian region of the Central Asia is known for its wide range of intracontinental ecosystems from desert through steppe to taiga forest and mountain tundra. Data on the isotopic composition of carbon and nitrogen in the bone and dental tissues of herbivorous animals inhabiting the desert, steppe, and forest–steppe landscapes of Outer Mongolia and Western Transbaikalia are presented. The maximum values of the carbon isotope ratio are observed in animals from the desert (Gobi Desert) and the semi-desert landscapes, median (mean) δ13C is -17.9‰. The minimum values of δ13C were obtained by herbivorous animals of the forest-steppe and the forest landscapes (Transbaikalia), which median δ13C is -23‰. The fauna of the steppes (median δ13C is -21.7‰) has intermediate values of the carbon isotopic composition. According to the isotope composition of nitrogen, the isotope-geochemical isolation of ecosystems is less pronounced.

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Muhammad Ridho Fajar Nugraha and Robby Satria. "Image Archetypal from the Novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley." INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa 11, no. 2 (October 11, 2024): 335–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36232/interactionjournal.v11i2.47.

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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a crucial work in Gothic literature and science fiction, exploring human ambition, innovation, and isolation. Using Carl Jung's archetypal imagery, this study examines the novel’s key themes and characters. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on the text and secondary literary sources. Prominent archetypes identified include the Overreacher, the Monster, the Promethean Figure, the Wanderer, and the Tragic Hero. Victor Frankenstein is analyzed as both the Overreacher and the Tragic Hero, symbolizing hubris and downfall. The Monster embodies isolation and alienation, while Victor’s act of creation reflects the Promethean Figure, symbolizing innovation and ethical dilemmas. Both characters are portrayed as Wanderers, emphasizing their existential quests for meaning and belonging. These archetypes play a central role in the narrative. Shelley’s use of archetypal imagery enhances the novel’s critique of scientific advancement and ethical responsibility. Victor’s tragic heroism serves as a cautionary tale about unchecked ambition, while the Monster’s plight underscores the societal need for empathy and acceptance.

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Ryser, Remo, Johanna Häussler, Markus Stark, Ulrich Brose, Björn C. Rall, and Christian Guill. "The biggest losers: habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1908 (July 31, 2019): 20191177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1177.

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Habitat fragmentation threatens global biodiversity. To date, there is only limited understanding of how the different aspects of habitat fragmentation (habitat loss, number of fragments and isolation) affect species diversity within complex ecological networks such as food webs. Here, we present a dynamic and spatially explicit food web model which integrates complex food web dynamics at the local scale and species-specific dispersal dynamics at the landscape scale, allowing us to study the interplay of local and spatial processes in metacommunities. We here explore how the number of habitat patches, i.e. the number of fragments, and an increase of habitat isolation affect the species diversity patterns of complex food webs ( α -, β -, γ -diversities). We specifically test whether there is a trophic dependency in the effect of these two factors on species diversity. In our model, habitat isolation is the main driver causing species loss and diversity decline. Our results emphasize that large-bodied consumer species at high trophic positions go extinct faster than smaller species at lower trophic levels, despite being superior dispersers that connect fragmented landscapes better. We attribute the loss of top species to a combined effect of higher biomass loss during dispersal with increasing habitat isolation in general, and the associated energy limitation in highly fragmented landscapes, preventing higher trophic levels to persist. To maintain trophic-complex and species-rich communities calls for effective conservation planning which considers the interdependence of trophic and spatial dynamics as well as the spatial context of a landscape and its energy availability.

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McManus, Jeannine, Matthew P. E. Schurch, Stefan Goets, Lauriane Faraut, Vanessa Couldridge, and Bool Smuts. "Delineating Functional Corridors Linking Leopard Habitat in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa." Conservation 2, no. 1 (February 23, 2022): 99–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/conservation2010009.

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Natural landscapes are increasingly fragmented due to human activity. This contributes to isolation and inadequate gene flow among wildlife populations. These threats intensify where populations are already low, and gene flow is compromised. Ensuring habitat connectivity despite transformed landscapes can mitigate these risks. Leopards are associated with high levels of biodiversity and are the last widely occurring, free-roaming apex predator in South Africa. Although highly adaptable, leopard survival is reduced by human-caused mortality and habitat destruction. We aimed to assess the connectivity of leopard habitat in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, South Africa. We predicted leopard habitat by correlating GPS data from 31 leopards to environmental features that included human-associated and natural landscapes. We used circuit theory to delineate corridors linking known leopard populations. Finally, using camera traps, we tested whether five predicted corridors were used by leopards. Leopard habitat was strongly correlated to moderate slopes and areas of natural land-cover and plantations, highlighting mountainous areas as important habitat with high connectivity probability. While most habitat patches showed some level of connectivity, leopards avoided highly transformed landscapes, potentially isolating some populations. Where corridors are not functional, active conservation measures for species connectivity becomes important.

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Dirin, D. A., and Paul Fryer. "The Sayan borderlands: Tuva’s ethnocultural landscapes in changing natural and sociocultural environments." GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-76.

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The paper is devoted to ethno-cultural landscapes of the Republic of Tuva. Ethnocultural landscapes (ECLs) are specific socio-environmental systems that developed as a result of the interaction of ethnic groups with their natural and social environments and are in a constant process of transformation. An attempt is made to identify the mechanisms of the formation, functioning and dynamics of ethnocultural landscapes in the specific conditions of the intracontinental cross-border mountain region, as well as to establish the main factors-catalysts of their modern changes. For the first time an attempt is made to delimit and map the ethnocultural landscapes of Tuva. For this, literary sources, statistical data and thematic maps of different times are analyzed using geoinformation methods. The results of 2014-2018 field studies are also used, during which interviews with representatives of different ethno-territorial, gender, age and social groups were taken. It is revealed that the key factors of Tuva’s ethnocultural landscape genesis are the natural isolation of its territory; the features of its landscape structure; the role of government; population migrations from other regions and the cultural diffusion provoked by them. 13 ethnocultural landscapes are identified at the regional level. Their modern transformation is determined by the shift of climatic cycles, aridisation, globalisation of sociocultural processes, changes in economic specialisation and ethnopsychological stereotypes.

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