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Phantom Pregnancy and Phenomenology in Decameron viii. 3 and ix. 3

This insight explores two stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron, both featuring the character of Calandrino, through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. It argues that the comedy of both tales relies upon a disjuncture between what Merleau-Ponty terms the ‘lived body’ and the ‘objective body’. This phenomenological conception of embodiment is then used to explore the ways…

Bibliographic Data Management with Zotero on the ‘Articulations’ Publishing Platform

When thinking about the use of data, we always have to think about workflows and data management, too. Therefore, the aim of this contribution is to show how ‘Articulations’ handles bibliographic data through Zotero to manage and implement references to the platform—the advantages this has brought and the difficulties encountered in the implementation process.

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Framing Narratives in Muṣṭafā al-Kīlānī’s ‘Mayār’ (2017): A Contemporary Tunisian Perspective on Literary Framing Between Theory and Practice

Theories of narrative framing often resort to the ‘Arabian Nights’ as a prime example of how frame tales and embedded tales interact. This contribution aims to move beyond the classical understanding of narrative framing by exploring a contemporary Tunisian example. In his novel ‘Mayār: sarāb al-jamājim thumma māʾ’ [Mayār: The Mirage of Skulls, then Water]…

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