Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Nested Revelations: Bely Translations and Misplaced Pages in 'After Blok'
Published Spring 202As it turns out, Nabokov wrote a lecture about and also translated some of Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg'. In the very same unpublished lecture we can also find three stray pages missing from another.Article -
Vengeful Marionettes and Strategies of Reform: A Quanzhou Marionette Production of the Orphan Of Zhao
Published 2014In 2012, the Quanzhou Marionette Company premiered their production of The Orphan of Zhao. It went on to feature in prominent festivals, including the World Minnan Cultural Festival in June 2013 and the 10th China Arts ...Open AccessArticle -
Sowing the Seeds for Strong Relations: Seeds and Plants as Diplomatic Gifts for the Russian Empress Maria Fedorovna
Published 2017The article examines the role of botany in diplomatic relationships between Britain and Russia around the turn of the nineteenth century by looking at three gifts of exotic seeds and plants sent by different British ...Open AccessArticle -
Grand tour memories In Maria Feodorovna’s Pavlovsk Park, St Petersburg, 1782–1825
Published 2020The gardens surrounding Pavlovsk Palace, just outside St Petersburg, at the turn of the nineteenth century were recognized by contemporaries as the most visually appealing in the Russian Empire. This status was largely ...Article -
Glossary to "The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor".
Published 2023This is an annotated compilation of humour research-related terms. Complete with references and examples of usage, it supplements the article by J. Milner Davis and J. Hofmann, "The humor transaction schema: A conceptual ...Open AccessReport, Research