Female authorship of historical novels in the Romantic period (ca. 1750-1830) is critically established, but these insights have not yet come to fruition research on ballad collections. This article aims examine how Anne Bannerman (?1765-1829) uses form write fictional history. Her collection original ballads, Tales Superstition and Chivalry (1802), draws from margins past creates supernaturall...

This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in preface written by North Irish poet Seamus Heaney his retranslations Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account generic identity considering it as a textual subgenre where translator becomes metatranslator voice herself out invisibility, engages (self-reflexive) and “justification” commenting on choice translate...

Similar as to how films are accompanied with bonus features and extras on their dvd release, digital games too are sometimes released with supplemental materials which provide insight in the creative development process. Examples of these are behind-the-scenes documentaries, concept art, audio commentaries, and so on. In the study of digital games this material could easily be overlooked or pri...

In rethinking literacy education in light of unprecedented technological change, this paper reports on adolescent gamers and their accumulation of gaming capital. This is in opposition to more pervasive assumptions about gaming as mindless entertainment, learning simulations, ideological tools and interactive mediums for the masses. We see the need to research the medium of games in their entir...

The field of Gesnerian studies is still to a large extent underdeveloped. This statement sums up in a nutshell the state of research on the body of work of the Zurich physician. Yet, no place for pessimism in this succinct conclusion: in what follows we trace some major tendencies and developments in the study of the Gesnerian corpus. On the whole, it is mostly his illustrations that have drawn...