Political, historical and literary significance of Aristophanes' Frogs in the new modern performance acted in the Greek theatre of Siracuse during the theatrical season INDA 2017. ; Significato storico, politico e letterario delle Rane di Aristofane nella nuova moderna rappresentazione portata in scena nel teatro greco di Siracusa in occasione della stagione teatrale organizzata dall'INDA (Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico) nel 2017.
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene , Othello , and The Merchant of Venice , she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways.
This book provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships. In 1974, Francoise d'Eaubonne coined the term "ecofeminism" to raise awareness about interconnections between women's oppression and nature's domination in an attempt to liberate women and nature from subordination. Since then, ecofeminism has attracted scholars and activists from various disciplines and positions to assess the relationship between the cultural human and the natural nonhuman through gender reconsiderations. The contributors to this volume present critical and constructive perspectives on ecofeminism throughout its history, from the beginnings of ecofeminism in the 1970s through to contemporary and emerging developments in the field, drawing on animal studies, postcolonialism, film studies, transgender studies, and political ecology. This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays demonstrates the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism as a way of understanding and responding to the complex interactions between genders, bodies, and the natural environment. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecofeminism as well as those involved in environmental studies and gender studies more broadly.
In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The collection of essays, German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives, connects spatial studies, German studies, and women's writing, and emphasizes a return to the written word as an original site of cultural interrogation
Over the past several years, the question of men's relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work - on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts - is opening up n
Introduction -- Korean Literature Wave: Transcultural and Transnational Reading of The Vegetarian and Bad Friend -- Korean Webtoon Wave: Narratological, Technological, and Medial Innovations of Korean Digital Comics -- Korean Mukbang Wave: Making Sense of Eating and Broadcasting and Its Techno-Mediated Narrative Environment.
"This book proposes that Ballard's novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centered around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard's novels reminds us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism"--
This book explores modernity under the spell of the 'primitive.' Proponents of the ideology of progress as well as critics of civilization, utopians dreaming of a re-enchanted existence and supporters and opponents of nascent fascism alike were all profoundly shaped by the phantasm of the ,primitive', a central element of which, this book argues, is the notion of 'primitive thought'. This comprises a distinct mode of thinking - characterized by turns as magical, mythical, mystical, or prelogical - that allows for a fundamentally different way of relating to the world. It was associated not only with indigenous cultures, but also with other figures of alterity, such as children and the mentally ill. The book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in the social sciences, writings on art and language, and - most centrally - literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, and Robert Müller
This paper analyses the intertextual relationship between Passionate Nomads, by the Argentine María Rosa Lojo, and the re-known Nineteenth- Century novel An Excursion to the Ranquels, by Lucio V. Mansilla. This analysis is based in the identification, description and interpretation of four main textual zones: 1. One in which issues related to the survival of the travelers are central (the text narrates what and how the travelers eat, sleep, move along); 2. A textual zone in which the poetics of return and its constant comparison between present and past structures the text; 3. A zone in which cultural criticism and satirical dialogues are recurrent; 4. An intimate zone, where the writing is centered in the explanation of moods, thoughts and feelings of the main character. These four textual zones delineate Passionate Nomads, a text in which the parodic ethos expresses homage to Mansilla and a cultural criticism toward Argentine society. ; Este trabajo analiza la relación intertextual entre La pasión de los nómades (1994) de la escritora argentina María Rosa Lojo y la célebre novela decimonónica Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (1871), de Lucio V. Mansilla. Se parte de la identificación, descripción e interpretación de cuatro zonas textuales: 1. una zona textual de la sobrevivencia que da cuenta de cuestiones propias del relato de viajes (qué se come, dónde se duerme, cómo se avanza); 2. una zona textual de la poética del cotejo, en donde recurre la comparación entre pasado y presente; 3. una zona de crítica cultural y de sátira; 4. una zona textual intimista, autorreferencial, en donde el narrador da cuenta de sus "estados del alma". Estas cuatro zonas van delineando un relato de viajes y un Bildungsroman antiheroica en donde el ethos predominante es el homenaje literario a Mansilla y la crítica a la Argentina de los años noventa.
This article discusses the features of Ivan Franko's literary thinking in the context of his research views evolution and the role of a memoir evidence in his literary research. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the massive expanse of Ivan Franko literary interests.Memoir evidence occupies a signifi cant place in Franko's literary research work. They differed in value at different stages of the scholar's theoretical activity. In the period of social and political interpretation of literature, Franko used them rather to reinforce his point of view in his controversy with opponents, whereas at the stage of ample employment of psychological ideas in literary criticism, such evidence served as one of the main arguments in support of the voiced theses, which underlay the author's fundamental and comprehensive conclusions.Keywords: memoirs, literary studies, cultural-historical school, psychological school. ; Розглянуто особливості літературознавчого мислення Івана Франка в контексті еволюції його наукових поглядів та місце і роль мемуарних свідчень у літературознавчих працях ученого. Головним завданням дослідження є демонстрація масштабних обширів літературознавчих зацікавлень І. Франка. Особливе місце займає розгляд мемуарних свідчень у працях Франка-літературознавця. На наш погляд, вони мали відмінне значення на різних етапах наукової діяльності вченого. Якщо в період суспільно-політичного трактування ролі літератури І. Франко використовував їх радше для підсилення своєї позиції в полеміці з опонентами, то на етапі широкого за-стосування ним ідей психологічного напряму в літературознавстві такі свідчення слугували одним із головних аргументів на підтвердження висловлених тез, на підставі яких учений робив ґрунтовні та вичерпні висновки.Ключові слова: мемуари, літературознавство,культуро-історична школа, психологічна школа.
In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel's 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History revisits radically the terms of the Romantic contract that, in Romania and elsewhere, has typically been underwriting modern criticism. A form of critical realism and an exemplar of postmillennial Romanian literary and cultural studies, Iovănel's book is, in Moraru's view, not only provocative but also effectively transformative. To gauge the scope and nature of the changes advocated and enacted in the History, this article examines how Iovănel has put together what he calls the "system" of contemporary Romanian literature. Thus, Moraru is less concerned with which writers are included in the book and which are left out, seeking, instead, answers to a series of questions concerning primarily Iovănel's cultural-materialist and transnational studies-informed methodology. Along the same theoretical, historical, and political lines, Moraru discusses the project's makeup as well as the strength of the case the History makes for the need to have another look at a range of pre- and post-1990 literary movements, directions, styles, and authors, principally at postmodernism and its competition and successors in the twenty-first century.
Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish: literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new, hybrid genres to emerging literate audiences in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Whether to propagate 'national' language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls' education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. But as these essays show, translators were inventors, and their efforts might yield surprising results.
"This book analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary Spanish novel. Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author studies the post-colonial literary discourse about these regions in the contemporary novel"--