In the article, based on theory of intertextuality (Roland Barth, Julia Kristeva), question influence E. T. A. Hoffmann formation satirical style Edgar Allan Poe in cycle stories Grotesques and Arabesques (Tales Grotesque Arabesque (1839)). The author argues that Hoffmann’s recognizable plots (“The Sandman”, “Princess Brambilla”, “Elixirs Satan”, etc.), which were popular during this period Eur...

WOLF LEPENIES, Melancholy and society, transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5). Melancholy has always been a catchall phrase as universal as the human condition: widespread, if disparate, in every epoch; an affliction of the young and old that has been virtually incapable of adequate definition; ...

1. introduction intertextuality is a literature theory which has been based on bakhtine’s dialogism theory. it was firstly stated by juliet kristova. according to this theory each text is produced and read in a dialogue with other texts. intertextual criticism is a way of reading texts which signifies texts to each other rather than the real world. the hypotext, habil (abel) and qabil (cain), w...

1. introduction some narratologists like kristeva and genette believe that if a text remembers another text, a dialogue has taken place between them and an inter-textual (or trans-textual) relationship has thus been established. some also believe that there is always a relationship between texts. among them, genette accompanied his claims by a theory and opened a new way before the narratologis...

As mobile computers’ processing and communications systems become more powerful, they can support interactive tools such as collaborative virtual environments. Similarly, mixed reality systems use some of the same technologies as ‘traditional’ collaborative virtual environments and virtual worlds, but they are increasingly coupled and interconnected with other media in a way that we usually ass...

In memory of Roland-François Lack Like Lina’s, the viewer’s suspicions are centred on glass milk. And it is this milk, putatively poisoned, that focal point my attempt in article, pursuing hints to be found writings both Gaston Bachelard and Jean-Paul Sartre, outline a psychoanalysis peculiarly blank substance. Milk liquid that, symbolic sense, superficially secure its identification with innoc...

The problem of woman’s identity, as a social construction imposed on the woman from the outside, makes the object of the present paper. Having as a starting point Simone de Beauvoir’s formula: « on ne naît pas femme, on le devient », this article attempts to show how woman’s identity is gradually constructed, within society. Drawing its source from the Marxist theory and from Julia Kristeva’s s...

This paper asks whether political participation confers psychological benefits. Four hypotheses were tested: that involvement in volunteer activities reduces subsequent psychological distress, that resisting perceived discrimination does, that the benefits of political involvement are more pronounced for respondents prone to psychological distress, and that any observed benefits of political in...

This paper draws on post-structural feminist theories of emotion to explore the significance of leisure within women’s narratives of recovery from depression. I engage with the stories of 48 women in rural and urban Australia to identify the gendered discourses governing depression and recovery. Leisure figured as a site of identity transformation where women enacted creative, embodied, and con...