El Diario Pinciano (1787-1788), escrito por el erudito José Mariano Beristáin y Souza, contenía una sección literaria en la que se criticaban las dedicatorias en latín de los actos académicos. Esto ...generó en ocasiones intensos debates públicos entre los partidarios y detractores del periódico. Destacan en la polémica dos figuras enfrentadas: José Mariano Beristáin, el autor del periódico, y Francisco Guerra, catedrático de Griego. En este artículo se analiza el uso de las referencias al mundo y la cultura grecolatinas como arma dialéctica en los escritos a favor o en contra de estas críticas literarias. Se identificarán las alusiones más relevantes a la mitología, la historia o cualquier otro aspecto del mundo clásico y se estudiará cómo estas han sido adaptadas a un nuevo contexto de diatriba y mordacidad eruditas.
A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the
writing of James Joyce
In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853 ‒
1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, ...influenced
James Joyce's creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well
as Ulysses 's broader themes surrounding race, nationalism,
and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals
parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the
experience of double marginalization-which Altman felt as both a
Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire-is a major
idea explored in Joyce's work.
Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in
municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and
frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce's
youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in
the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most
identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman's
career on the Dubliners story "Ivy Day in the Committee
Room," as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses . Through
Altman's biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that
illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce's
Dublin.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles
In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as "the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside." Hannah ...Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes.The Outside Thingoffers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein's first novelQ.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall'sAdam's BreedandThe Well of Loneliness, and Barnes's early writing alongsideNightwood. Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist,The Outside Thingpresents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the "straight" traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research,The Outside Thingis a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.
Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on ...female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned.
The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to ...postmodern culture in America. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism is the first book-length scholarly study of this important literary figure. Drawing on new archival research - including explorations of Ford's correspondence with the likes of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Parker Tyler, and many others - the book explores the full impact of Ford's contribution to twentieth-century American literary culture.
Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era ...segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In Freedom Time—the second book to appear in the Callaloo African Diaspora Series—Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of black experimental writing that understands the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept with which to analyze the ways that writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques.
Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers—including N. H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey—Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s.
Freedom Time reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that, if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.
