Jochen Achilles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5964971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jochen Achilles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jochen |
| FAMILY NAME | Achilles |
| SIGNATURE | ACHILLES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5347-913X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exchanges, Challenges, and Concerns in the North Atlantic Triangle
For Alfred on his Eightieth Birthday
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“The Ghostly Terrors of the Nursery”
This essay contends that emotional oscillations between subordination and emancipation are responsible for the inconclusivity and evasiveness of Le Fanu’s plots, which critics often emphasise but rarely try to explain. The parallels between, on the one hand, the dual structures that pervade Le Fanu’s works and, on the other, the binaries of latent dream thoughts and manifest dream content, the familiar and the uncanny, which Sigmund Freud employs…
How to Strengthen Irish Studies throughout Europe? A Diagnosis Based on the German-Speaking Countries
1. Introduction Against the background of the larger European situation, this essay will primarily concern itself with the positioning of Irish Studies within the German and Austrian university system. It will also focus on the institutional basis of Irish Studies within German English departments and on career options for scholars specializing in Irish Studies. This survey
Environmental Liminalities
In Victor Turner’s view, liminality is part of a process of defamiliarization and potential de- and reconstruction, “marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen),”—Latin for threshold—“and aggregation” (94). These phases obviously also structure stories of initiation (Freese 52). As Turner argues in The Forest of Symbols (1967), liminality has an epistemological dimension, as it constitutes “a stage of reflection” (105) which “may perhap…
Transnational perspectives in Simon J. Ortiz’s short fiction
Contemporary American short stories from Simon J. Ortiz’s Men of the Moon (1999) can be considered a testing ground for conceptualizations of (trans)-national identities from Randolph Bourne’s ‘Transnational America’ (1916) to David Hollinger’s Postethnic America (1995). In these stories the aesthetic concretization of contingent experiences by Native Americans both confirms and critiques the theoretical concepts of postcolonial studies and trans…
Environmental Liminalities
In Victor Turner’s view, liminality is part of a process of defamiliarization and potential de- and reconstruction, “marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen),”—Latin for threshold—“and aggregation” (94). These phases obviously also structure stories of initiation (Freese 52). As Turner argues in The Forest of Symbols (1967), liminality has an epistemological dimension, as it constitutes “a stage of reflection” (105) which “may perhap…
Transnational perspectives in Simon J. Ortiz’s short fiction
Contemporary American short stories from Simon J. Ortiz’s Men of the Moon (1999) can be considered a testing ground for conceptualizations of (trans)-national identities from Randolph Bourne’s ‘Transnational America’ (1916) to David Hollinger’s Postethnic America (1995). In these stories the aesthetic concretization of contingent experiences by Native Americans both confirms and critiques the theoretical concepts of postcolonial studies and trans…
Environmental Liminalities
In Victor Turner’s view, liminality is part of a process of defamiliarization and potential de- and reconstruction, “marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen),”—Latin for threshold—“and aggregation” (94). These phases obviously also structure stories of initiation (Freese 52). As Turner argues in The Forest of Symbols (1967), liminality has an epistemological dimension, as it constitutes “a stage of reflection” (105) which “may perhap…
How to Strengthen Irish Studies throughout Europe? A Diagnosis Based on the German-Speaking Countries
1. Introduction Against the background of the larger European situation, this essay will primarily concern itself with the positioning of Irish Studies within the German and Austrian university system. It will also focus on the institutional basis of Irish Studies within German English departments and on career options for scholars specializing in Irish Studies. This survey
“The Ghostly Terrors of the Nursery”
This essay contends that emotional oscillations between subordination and emancipation are responsible for the inconclusivity and evasiveness of Le Fanu’s plots, which critics often emphasise but rarely try to explain. The parallels between, on the one hand, the dual structures that pervade Le Fanu’s works and, on the other, the binaries of latent dream thoughts and manifest dream content, the familiar and the uncanny, which Sigmund Freud employs…
For Alfred on his Eightieth Birthday
.
Exchanges, Challenges, and Concerns in the North Atlantic Triangle
American and British Literature Analysis (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Short Stories in Global Literature (2 works) · Atlantic hurricane (1 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (1 works) · Classical Studies and Philology (1 works) · Climate change (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Dream (1 works)