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Papers by Robert Rix

Contents: Editions of Pigott's works cited Introduction A Political Dictionary Explaining the... more Contents: Editions of Pigott's works cited Introduction A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words Annotations Cast of characters Bibliography.

Romantic textualities, Jun 24, 2023

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 2023

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 2019

In 1796, numerous English translations of the German writer Gottfried August Bürger"s poem "Lenor... more In 1796, numerous English translations of the German writer Gottfried August Bürger"s poem "Lenore" were published. Critics have long seen this intense publication activity (within just one calendar year) as both remarkable and difficult to explain. The article examines the factors that made the poem such an immediate sensation. By analyzing prefaces and reviews related to the English translations of "Lenore," it becomes clear that the poem offered something new: it was a Kunstballade that drew on vernacular poetic forms and thereby challenged existing verse genres. In order to understand the popularity of the ballad, the article revisits aspects of the theorist Itamar Even-Zohar"s polysystem theory, which provides a useful departure for a discussion of translations as the conduits through which a domestic repertoire of literary genres can be expanded and renewed. In this connection, it is important to look at how the various translations were aimed at different segments of the book market. However, as an innovation, Bürger"s poem was not universally welcomed. Conservative detractors and, remarkably, some of the translators themselves baulked at introducing Bürger"s superstitious ballad to an English reading public insofar as "Lenore" could be seen to contest British rationality and offend religious sensibilities.

'A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words' by Charles Pigott, 2004

Introduction 1. Categorizing the North and Its People 2. The Goths and the 'Out-of-Scandinavi... more Introduction 1. Categorizing the North and Its People 2. The Goths and the 'Out-of-Scandinavia' Legend 3. Ethnic History and European Peoples 4. Ancestral Rhetoric in Bede's Historia ecclesiastic agentis Anglorum 5. Scandinavian Ancestors in Anglo-Saxon Texts 6. Danes and Geatas: Heroes of the Legendary North

Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe

Romantik

Thearticle discussesthe transmissionoft he folktale at acritical juncturewhenitmoved into them ai... more Thearticle discussesthe transmissionoft he folktale at acritical juncturewhenitmoved into them ainstreamo fp olitel iterature. Thec ases tudy is Johann KarlA ugustM usäus' "Stumme Liebe",includedinVo lksmärchen derDeutschen (1782-1786), acollectionthat preceded theBrothersGrimm by nearly threedecades. Musäus helped sparkaninterestin thelow form of thefolktale by re-packagingoraltraditionaselegant andhumorousstories palatabletoamiddle-class readership.However,as"Stumme Liebe" wastransmitted in printbyothers, Musäus' conception of thefolktalewas challenged,and thestory itself was radicallychanged.The articlepaysparticularattention to theretellingofthe storyinBritain becauset he changesi tu nderwent in Englisht ranslation reveal an importantc ultural historyoffolktale reception, notleast in regard to theRomantic-period renegotiationofthe supernatural.

Over the past few decades, gender studies have reinvigorated the way in which we talk about roman... more Over the past few decades, gender studies have reinvigorated the way in which we talk about romanticism. The article discusses some of the key developments and their critical consequences. Critical interventions have not only redirected our reading of familiar texts, but also fundamentally destabilized the canon and even made us question the validity of the label 'romanticism' itself. Recent critical work is beginning to uncover a mobile syntax of gender roles. The article focuses on how criticism is beginning to discern an unstable distribution of gender characteristics across the spectrum of literary writing.

The satirical The Marriage of Heaven and Hell has long been recognised as a key work in William B... more The satirical The Marriage of Heaven and Hell has long been recognised as a key work in William Blake’s literary production. Yet the precise nature of his theological dispute with the mystic philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg in this text has never been fully explained. Reinserting Blake’s literary work into its original Swedenborgian context reveals it as a vivacious manifesto of antinomian theology. By examining Blake’s parody of central Swedenborgian passages, it is possible to shed new light on the little understood inversion of ‘devils ’ and ‘angels’, which has long frustrated analyses of the text.

Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy, 2020

Robert Rix discusses the interest in eighteenth-century and romantic-period Britain in the legend... more Robert Rix discusses the interest in eighteenth-century and romantic-period Britain in the legends surrounding Odin, the chief deity of the ancient Norse pantheon. As Rix observes, there had been, since the Middle Ages, a persistent attempt to interpret Odin as an historical figure from Asia who conquered the north of Europe, bringing with him a new language and the art of poetry. Rix’s account of how English writers took seriously the Odin migration idea not only explores a largely unstudied aspect of Anglo-Nordic cultural exchange but also provides a new perspective on the ongoing critical debate deriving ultimately from Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) about the uses of the East as an ‘Other’ and the ways in which that ‘Other’ was implicated in definitions of English literature.

Blake-an Illustrated Quarterly, 2016

This article examines how Swedenborgianism linked the conscious and unconscious mind through the ... more This article examines how Swedenborgianism linked the conscious and unconscious mind through the literary symbol. It has long warranted critical attention that Swedenborg, nearly two centuries before Jung, launched an exploration of archetypal images. What I will attempt below is a study of the reception history of Swedenborg, or, more precisely, an examination of how the psychological and literary dimensions of Swedenborg’s writing have been a significant attraction to readers. To cite as Rix, R.W., 2014, ‘Emanuel Swedenborg, Transpersonal Psychology and the Literary Text’, PsyArt 18, pp. 25–42. This article examines how Swedenborgianism linked the conscious and unconscious mind through the literary symbol. It has long warranted critical attention that Swedenborg, nearly two centuries before Jung, launched an exploration of archetypal images. What I will attempt below is a study of the reception history of Swedenborg, or, more precisely, an examination of how the psychological and ...

Some of the main experimental observations related to the occurrence of exchange bias in magnetic... more Some of the main experimental observations related to the occurrence of exchange bias in magnetic systems are reviewed, focusing the attention on the peculiar phenomenology associated to nanoparticles with core/shell structure as compared to thin film bilayers. The main open questions posed by the experimental observations are presented and contrasted to existing theories and models for exchange bias formulated up to date. We also present results of simulations based on a simple model of a core/shell nanoparticle in which the values of microscopic parameters such as anisotropy and exchange constants can be tuned in the core, shell and at the interfacial regions, offering new insight on the microscopic origin of the experimental phenomenology. A detailed study of the magnetic order of the interfacial spins shows compelling evidence that most of the experimentally observed effects can be qualitatively accounted within the context of this model and allows also to quantify the magnitude of the loop shifts in striking agreement with the macroscopic observed values.