This essay explores a selection of mid-eighteenth-century stage works, all of which have a starting point in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, in order to consider the term ‘adaptation’ and ways in which it is applied in contemporary Adaptation Studies. It suggests that the appropriation of narrative elements from a literary precursor remains paramount in the identification of works …

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Islam is increasingly being viewed asthe Otherof an enlightened and tolerant Germany. Turkish-German author Feridun Zaimoglu and his co-writer Gu ¨nter Senkel destabilize these Western assumptions in the play Schwarze Jungfrauen (2006), in which performed monologues from the perspective of Muslim women evoke both fundamentalist and mystical (Sufi) manifesta…

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This article opens by identifying the vocabularyof ranking and proportion in recent discussions of terrorism, in particular after the attacks of September 11th 2001, and goes on to question the viability of this sort of language. Readings of literary works by Albert Camus and Mohammed Dib demonstrate how difficult it is to differentiate between justifiable and excessive levels of terrorist viol…

This article explores the poetry of Katerina Gogou, a Greek poet of the 1970s, as regards her engagement with anarchist terrorism in Greece’s post-dictatorship period. Gogou is perhaps one of the most celebrated poets among anarchist circles in Greece,but remains largely omitted from the literary can on. Heranti-authoritarian stance in both her life and her work invites are assessment of the …

In this paper, I argue that Jarett Kobek’s ATTA (2011), portraying one of the terrorists of September 11th, and Nick Flynn’s The Ticking isthe Bomb (2010), focusing on the ensuing ‘Waron Terror’, are the first texts responding directly to the global effects of 9/11. Both do so by mapping and ‘producing’ urban and global space through relationality, and by recomplicating and recontem…

As recent work by historians and critical theorists reminds us, the senses have a history. Whether we judge sight or hearing to be the ‘superior’sense, how we differentiate sounds from noise, what power relationships we find inscribed in these distinctions, what kind of information we glean from the myriad sensory stimuli constantly available to our organs of perception – these matt…

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Thornton Wilder’s tragic and elegiac historical novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) focuses throughout on the universal themes of death, transience, and love; the historical past serves mainly to enhance its concern with time and what if anything will survive it. The resemblances of Philip Larkin’s ‘An Arundel Tomb’ to this neglected American masterpiece are striking and justify a c…