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The direct impulse for the undertaking was the experience of scientific work and exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic as a first-hand touch of the “poetics of disappearance” (p. 16). It is, needless to say, an experience with which the writer of these words deeply sympathizes, as most of the people nowadays probably do. Therefore, the book can claim a wide appeal, resulting not only from...

"Emma" is a timeless novel of the English writer Jane Austen which was published in 1815. Similarly to other works of hers, Austen describes the quandaries of an English genteel woman living in the Regency period. This novel is deemed to be a comedy of manners. The titular character is Emma Woodhouse, a young spoiled woman who overestimates her matchmaker skills and overlooks the dangers which may...