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Situated Value and the New Cinephilia: The Case of ‘Wanda’

Girish Shambu’s manifesto ‘For a New Cinephilia’ is a call to replace an older ‘love of cinema’, which universalises its own very specific and contingent history, with a new cinephilia sensitive to political inequalities. In this insight, I use Shambu’s framework to discuss the reception history of Barbara Loden’s film Wanda (1970), which was recently…

Pipepoetics and the Infrastructures of Circulation

Energy Humanities have firmly established “petropoetics” as a pivotal term of modern literary studies for mapping the global flows of fossil fuels through eco-critical readings of world literature. However, the infrastructures of these circulations have largely been overlooked. Among the various means of transportation that poetics leverages, the pipeline takes precedence in its double capacity…

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(Un)veiling Language or Frames in al-Ḥarīrī’s ‘Maqāmāt’

In this insight, the literary device of framing is used to shed light on the systematic structure of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt (hereafter, Ḥarīriyya). The work has been criticised by modern scholars for being fragmented, short-breathed, and episodic. In contrast, I argue that all fifty episodes of the Ḥarīriyya are part of a symmetric, well-devised structure, which…

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