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Francesca Maria Frittella Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0034 Abstract The present article explores the profound impact of intercultural contact on identity, a topic that is gaining in relevance as multicultural experiences become increasingly common in globalised...
Lania Knight Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0036 Abstract The article traces the notion of empathy in fiction writing and how Cervantes’s treatment of characters in Don Quixote initiated a tradition which is ongoing in literature even...
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0027 Abstract Works of art seem to be used more and more frequently in scripted TV shows nowadays. Most often, they constitute a symbolic point of reference, an intertextual “interlude,”...
Kamal Sbiri Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0035 Abstract In studying certain autobiographical narratives of forced migration and exile, the experience of being caught between two worlds is always emphasized. The forced migrant narrative provides different pictures...
Javier Martín-Párraga Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0030 Abstract Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is one of the earliest and most influential novels in the history of Western literature. John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, published almost three...
Maren Lickhardt Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0033 Abstract This paper discusses plot structures and characters of the The Walking Dead TV series which can be traced back to the influence of computer games and gameplay. It...
Matteo Genovesi Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0032 Abstract One of the most important features in a transmedia structure, as Max Giovagnoli argues in his book Transmedia: Storytelling e Comunicazione [Transmedia: Storytelling and Communication], is the development...
Perched on the promenade adjoining the historical preservation district of Caesarea, originally built by Herod in the decades preceding the current era and featuring the remnants of a hippodrome, a theatre, and a palace,...
Xanthi Tsiftsi Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0026. Abstract The Holocaust today resides between memory and postmemory. Initially, children of survivors and their contemporaries inherited a mediated past and bore full responsibility for disseminating their...
Ewa Kołodziejczyk Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0031. Abstract The article traces the impact of Czesław Miłosz’s first American stay on his image of Central Europe in Rodzinna Europa [Native Realm]. In the United States,...
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