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Language in Wonderland: Referentiality and Power in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
No full textFrom the study of language creation, it is gathered that in most cases the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary, except in the case of those words which have a very clear echoic origin (e.g. bubble). Nevertheless, after a close readingof Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the reader is encouraged to reflect upon this matter and to wonder who has the ability to establish this relationship and why; being this one of the main topics that this article covers. Additionally, some comments will be made on the procedure through which nonsense texts should be approached and the study will include some discussion on how the meaning of certain words may sometimes be intrinsic to the things themselves. Such would be the case of the nonsense poem, “Jabberwocky” and the names of the insects mentioned in Chapter III (e.g. Bread-and-butterfly). For all these reasons, throughout this work it will be studied up to what point is the name of things related to their nature; including cases in which the connection is lost, if ever (e.g. if a nonsense poem is analyzed and some sense is made out of it, is it still a nonsense poem?), as much as who is in charge of establishing those power relationships and what are the consequences of it in terms of power
Love, separated
No full textThrough the analysis of some fragments of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s Ash Wednesday (specifically from sections I, II and VI), this article attempts to evince how the reconciliation of the human and the spiritual nature of love is here addressed through the theme of sublimation, related to the Stilnovo tradition and introduced by Dante in his early work, Vita Nova. The human being, the faithful speaker, the lover, is finally kept suspended, and even if in hope, left in a state of tension that does not reach a final fulfilment
The merging of reality and fiction in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and her character ‘Rhoda’
Get PDFKnowledge and understanding constitute the dominant discourse that functions according to social rules in order to maintain a certain status quo. Madness can be seen as an attempt to transgress this discourse; a form of rebellion against the dominant order. Following Michel Foucault, who theorized this conflict, this paper analyzes the role of madness in Virginia Woolf’s works. In many of them, the English writer narrates, in between the lines, her psychological transitional passage after suffering a series of traumatic events in her infancy. It has been said that Virginia Woolf lived two lives: one on thereal world and one in her own interior world, the one reflected in her novels. It is our aim to find the connections between these two parallel lives. Her work is interesting precisely because it makes manifest her split self within narrative fiction. This borderline condition is more obvious in her novel The Waves. Thus, the paper will examine the characters’ thoughts, and establish connections with the realityof Woolf’s life and childhood. Alongside Foucault’s cultural analysis, the study employs a psychological perspective based on some basic aspects from Sigmund Freud’s theories. In terms of structure, the paper begins with a brief description of the socio-cultural aspects of the period in which Woolf lived, focusing on the situation of women and on the author’s main life events. This is followed by an in-depth study of Rhoda, one of the six characters of The Waves, who recalls Virginia Woolf’s own life to the point of anticipating her suicide. Underlying the discussion, the paper unveils intergeneric hybridity in 20th-century avant-garde by showing the crossings between autobiography and fiction
Wolverine and American Mythology: The Ultimate Anti-hero
No full textThe main aim of this project is to show the importance of graphic novels in American culture, as well as to analyze and justify the role of anti-heroes in a world where they match or even surpass the popularity of heroes, using as the main example the character known as Wolverine. An analysis of this character in terms of American literature and society, together with a brief review of the history of American superheroes, serves to demonstrate how Wolverine has become the ultimate American anti-hero