Evert Jan Van Leeuwen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evert Jan Van Leeuwen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evert Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Leeuwen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LEEUWEN E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiteit Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden, the Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5240-7257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Animal Ownership and Ecological Consciousness in Three American Horror Texts
This essay explores three popular horror narratives' engagement with the commodification and exploitation of animals within American society.It reveals that the attitude towards animals as commodified products is a natural outgrowth of the modern materialistic American Dream in which possession of private property and the accumulation of material wealth is equated with getting ahead and living the good life.The essay also shows how the films Burn…
Algorithms for diversity and clustering in social networks through dot product graphs
In this paper, we investigate a graph-theoretical model of social networks. The dot product model assumes that two individuals are connected in the social network if their attributes or opinions are similar. In the model, a d -dimensional vector View the MathML source represents the extent to which individual v has each of a set of d attributes or opinions. Then two individuals u and v are assumed to be friends, that is, they are connected in the…
Though Hermes never taught thee
This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast in the role of gothic villain but instead can play the part of marginalised utopian idealist, whose dissident presence in the novel reveals that the seemingly enlightened community of Mettingen is…
Funeral Sermons and Graveyard Poetry
This article argues that Anglo‐American graveyard poetry is a form of religious poetry closely connected to the eighteenth‐century funeral sermon tradition. An analysis of graveyard poetry in the context of the funeral sermon reveals that the poems explore Christian themes of faith, doubt and the afterlife, in which death, the grave and its paraphernalia are not objects of fear and horror but objects of desire. Such an analysis also reveals that …
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Funeral Sermons and Graveyard Poetry
This article argues that Anglo‐American graveyard poetry is a form of religious poetry closely connected to the eighteenth‐century funeral sermon tradition. An analysis of graveyard poetry in the context of the funeral sermon reveals that the poems explore Christian themes of faith, doubt and the afterlife, in which death, the grave and its paraphernalia are not objects of fear and horror but objects of desire. Such an analysis also reveals that …
Though Hermes never taught thee
This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast in the role of gothic villain but instead can play the part of marginalised utopian idealist, whose dissident presence in the novel reveals that the seemingly enlightened community of Mettingen is…
Algorithms for diversity and clustering in social networks through dot product graphs
In this paper, we investigate a graph-theoretical model of social networks. The dot product model assumes that two individuals are connected in the social network if their attributes or opinions are similar. In the model, a d -dimensional vector View the MathML source represents the extent to which individual v has each of a set of d attributes or opinions. Then two individuals u and v are assumed to be friends, that is, they are connected in the…
Animal Ownership and Ecological Consciousness in Three American Horror Texts
This essay explores three popular horror narratives' engagement with the commodification and exploitation of animals within American society.It reveals that the attitude towards animals as commodified products is a natural outgrowth of the modern materialistic American Dream in which possession of private property and the accumulation of material wealth is equated with getting ahead and living the good life.The essay also shows how the films Burn…
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