Th is paper explores the approach to the construction of literary tourism site from the perspective of authenticity which is a keyword in heritage tourism. Since MacCannell (1973, 1976) introduced the concept of authenticity into studies of tourism motivations and experiences in 1970s, the various notions of tourism authenticity can be summarized into four types of theories objective authentici...

Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode uniquely suited to speak anxieties generated by current ecological crisis. In essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) part wave recent that mark sharp...

This special issue examines the multifaceted phenomenon of death in early modern Low Countries. When war, revolt, and disease ravaged Netherlands, experience came to be increasingly materialised vanitas art, funeral sermons, ars moriendi prints, mourning poetry, deathbed psalms, memento mori pendants, grave monuments, épitaphiers, commemoration masses. collection interdisciplinary essays brings...