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The study explores the surprising affinity of two seemingly remote phenomena: of literature and weather. In three contrasting cultural formations ¿ Shakespeare¿s early modern age, Goethe¿s enlightened society and Zoläs Second Empire ¿ the weather emerges as an important model for the self-reflection of literature and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances.

Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct contact with their real lives. This study explores the notion of touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance in Shakespeare's plays. By playing with touch and its metathe...

Literature and Weather. Shakespeare - Goethe - Zola" is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature's affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature's weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic a...

Is Feminism without the agency of sexed subjects possible? Can the problems of a highly gendered world be formulated and tackled without resorting to the notion of fundamental sexual difference? Is it possible for a Feminism that is not based on the assumption of sexed beings to gain any consistency and follow any concerted strategy? The project of this study is not only to show that all these questions can be answered with a full-hearted - Y...

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