Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, A Web of Fantasies examines the complexities, symbolism and interactions between gaze and image in Ovid’s ...Metamorphoses and forms a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a feminist study of Ovid’s epic, which includes many stories about change, in which discussions of viewers, viewing, and imagery strive to illuminate Ovid’s constructions of male and female. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell discusses the text from the perspective of three types of gazes: of characters looking, of the poet who narrates visually charged stories, and of the reader who “sees” the woven images in the text. Arguing against certain theorists who deny the possibility of any feminine vision in a male-authored poem, the author maintains that the female point of view can be released through the traditional feminine occupation of weaving, featuring the woven images of Arachne (involved in a weaving contest in which she tried to best the goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider) and Philomela (who had her tongue cut out, so had to weave a tapestry depicting her rape and mutilation). The book observes that while feminist models of the gaze can create productive readings of the poem, these models are too limited and reductive for such a protean and complex text as Metamorphoses. This work brings forth the pervasive importance of the act of looking in the poem which will affect future readings of Ovid’s epic.
Sleepers wake / Virginia Tiger -- Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- Through the Wall / Sharon R. Wilson -- Margaret Atwood's The ...blind assassin as spiritual adventure / Earl G. Ingersoll -- And they went to bury her / Debrah Raschke and Sarah Appleton -- Atwood's space crone / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Roberta Rubenstein -- On the road again / Sally Chivers -- So much depends upon a ya-ya scrapbook / Sandra Singer -- Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush / Susan Berry Brill De Ramírez -- Soul murder and rebirth / Jeanie E. Warnock
Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary ...study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban- specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of ...domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat "private" family violence?Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fictiontraces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century.Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and readsDombey and Sonand Anne Brontë'sThe Tenant of Wildfell Hallin the context of the intense debates on wife assault and manliness in the late 1840s and early 1850s. Surridge explores George Eliot'sJanet's Repentancein light of the parliamentary debates on the 1857 Divorce Act. Marital cruelty trials provide the structure for both Wilkie Collins'sThe Woman in Whiteand Anthony Trollope'sHe Knew He Was Right.Locating the New Woman fiction of Mona Caird and the reassuring detective investigations of Sherlock Holmes in the context of late-Victorian feminism and the great marriage debate in theDaily Telegraph, Surridge illustrates how fin-de-siècle fiction brought male sexual violence and the viability of marriage itself under public scrutiny.Bleak Housesthus demonstrates how Victorian fiction was concerned about the wife-assault debates of the nineteenth century, debates which both constructed and invaded the privacy of the middle-class home.
This study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller’s realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction. The story of reading in Keller’s fiction is a self-conscious meditation on the ...schism between life and its literary representation—and it emphasizes the incapacity of that representation to actually and substantially influence the life it is based on. This has consequences for the didactic writer. The act of reading here generally involves a collision between fiction and its other and a move (or tragic failure to move) toward an acceptance and affirmation of the non-correspondence between life and literature, a process that renders moral didacticism a quixotic project. This position runs counter to the prevailing view of Keller as a consciously didactic author who tried to create a credible copy of reality in order to revise and repair the real world by inspiring readers to make the depicted improvements in their nonfictional universe.
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of ...literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has displayed a history of spatial colonization, which we see as a pattern we turn to a variety of seemingly disconnected forced migrations. With chapters that focus on migrations related the Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, the migration of peoples placed in Japanese American internment camps, and the migration of Southwestern migrant labor, Manzella makes some fascinating connections across narratives that would not typically be brought together. Ultimately, this project lays bare the oppressive practices of U.S. policy and reveals the resistance individual groups accessed as they completed these internal migrations.
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to ...explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to matters of race, nation, and difference.
Dinge sind schon seit einiger Zeit zu einem der wichtigsten kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfelder avanciert. Die zwanzig in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze widmen sich vormodernen Dingkulturen ...aus archäologischer, ethnologischer, historischer, kunsthistorischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Erzähltexten, womit zugleich die Brücke zur historischen Narratologie geschlagen wird. Moderne dingtheoretische Ansätze, insbesondere das Konzept der agency und das der Mensch-Ding-Vernetzung sowie gabentheoretische Ansätze werden fruchtbar gemacht und reflektiert. Erstaunliche Dinge, signifikante Sachverhalte, dingtheoretisch aufschlussreiche Texte vom Waltharius bis zu Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring werden analysiert und interpretiert. Die untereinander vielfach vernetzten Beiträge widmen sich den folgenden Themen: 1. Objektbiographien, 2. Dinge als Gabe und weitere Formen von Zirkulation, 3. Funktionen und 4. Bedeutungen von Dingen in literarischen Texten, 5. Artifizialität und Ästhetik. So schlüsselt die Publikation Dimensionen des dingtheoretischen Zugangs auf und zeigt gleichzeitig, wie gewinnbringend die unterschiedlichen Fragerichtungen verknüpft werden können.?
The essays collected in Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction "follow the money" to illuminate literature's keen awareness of the multiple and often conflicting meanings of wealth and commons in ...formerly colonized spaces.
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