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The article comments on the announcement of the death of literature, diagnosis of strong circulation in the last twenty years. The starting point is the debate opened by this topic in France, to try to outline a perspective that also integrates the United States and Latin America. The article attempts to understand the different conceptions of literature underlying the discourses on the subject: essence, institution, ivory tower, undifferentiated discourse, spectrum, utopia. In conclusion, an attempt is made to question what are the crossroads and anguish that are expressed in the idea of the death of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In October 1689 Quirinus Kuhlmann, a Silesian poet laureate, millenarian and admirer of Jakob Boehme, met a heretic's end in Moscow, one of many cities visited by this self-styled 'son of the Son of God', 'Jesuel', in his attempt to establish his 'Kühlmonarchie', which would usher in the Last Days. His travels took him to Amsterdam, Paris, London, Edinburgh, and Turkey, where he hoped to convert the Sultan and enlist him in his campaign to overthrow the Roman Catholic Church. In the 1670s and 1680s Kuhlmann spent extended periods in England and Scotland, visiting York and Edinburgh, and lived for several years in Bromley-by-Bow, drawing on common ground shared with various English Nonconformist groups. These groups flourished not least because of the political upheavals following the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Interregnum, the Popish Plot of 1678, and the ensuing Exclusion Crisis. This article analyses the poems Kuhlmann wrote on the death of Charles II and the accession of his brother James to the throne in 1685, locating them within the Kühlpsalter, his poetic account of and commentary on his physical and spiritual journeys, and drawing links with his wider millenarian vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about author William Blake's book "The Book of Los" and his documented encounter with a female prophet. It discusses Blake's attitude towards women and religion. Blake's works also includes millenarianism of his times and the role of gender in prophetic speech. Blake's deception of imaginative redemption in discussed.

A literary criticism is presented for the book "The Advancement of Learning," by Francis Bacon. The depiction of the Old Testament's Book of Daniel within the aforementioned book, including in regard to Millenarianism, God, Jesus Christ and prophecy, is discussed. Bacon's perspective on the growth of knowledge during the early 17th century as portrayed within "The Advancement of Learning" is discussed.

In preparation for Christ's Second Coming, nineteenth-century Mormons worked tirelessly to build Zion, a holy city where they could weather the latter-days and plan for the Millennium. Among those who contributed their talents to Zion were poets who set their millennial longing in verse. Their body of work shows how early Mormons drew upon the Bible, new Mormon doctrines, and existing poetic forms to create a literary complement to the developing Mormon eschatology. It also shows how the Mormon concept of Zion evolved over time as historical circumstances necessitated doctrinal adaptations that affected the way Mormons envisioned their earthly haven. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses Magris's appropriation of classical myth in his postmillennial narrative. Since his early works of literary criticism Magris explored the world of myth and the mythopoeic power of literature, but only in his postmillennial texts has he undertaken the writing of what John J. White defines as "mythological" narratives, in which he engages with the reuse and not the creation of myths. This article focuses on three works: La mostra (2001), Alla cieca (2005), and Lei dunque capirà (2006). It evaluates them as a cycle of closely connected mythological texts, built upon the intertextualization of: the myth of Alcestis, the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Magris's postmodern investigation of individual and collective histories unveils their traumatic relationship to memory and the impossibility of their unequivocal and coherent representation. The monologue Lei dunque capirà is Magris's most focused and comprehensive reworking of a classical myth in which a modern Eurydice retells from her standpoint the story of Orpheus' descent to the underworld. The text is an investigation of myth from a feminist perspective and at the same time an exploration of the theme of love voiced with the mixture of judgment and understanding that only conjugal love allows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Puritan Studies in the twenty-first century. Topics discussed include definition of puritanism by historian John Coffey, Peter Damrau's "The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany" book and role of the Jews in early modern England and the extent to which they contributed to this millenarian fervor.

As Spain approached the end a millennium, writers became increasingly retrospective, a phenomenon explained by Rosa Montero as an attempt to understand the past so as to understand and control the present. This idea is rooted in Hegelian concepts of historical progress and Enlightenment thought. Recognizing that this premise has been repeatedly challenged, this article looks beyond Montero's explanation for recent interest in the Enlightenment. Here we explore two figures of the Ilustración, Francisco de Goya and his famous subject Cayetana, Duquesa de Alba, as they appear in Volavérunt (Antonio Larreta) and La Duquesa de Alba (Carmen Barberá), finding in these texts a profound re- evaluation of Enlightenment principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]