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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to explore and critically interrogate Isabel Allende’s popularity cross-culturally in Britain and Spain. It analyses readers’ responses to Allende’s works as well as the discourses surrounding her public representation, an approach that is ‘readerly’ but must also take account of production and text. This approach is intended to further the understanding of Allende’s work which so far has always been analysed from a textual perspective. However, the relationship between Allende’s popularity, her texts, public representation and readers has not been yet analysed in detail.This thesis is innovative in other ways too. Methodologically, it approaches readers through the under studied cultural form of the reading group. It also incorporates a comparative dimension by looking at the reception of Allende in two different cultural contexts: the British and Spanish respectively. Finding out about Allende’s popularity has involved asking readers about their reading experiences as well as analysing the production of discourses around her public representation. Paul Ricoeur’s (1984, 1988) perspective on authorial intentions and readers’ responses to texts helps in understanding the intricacies surrounding what is involved in reading any text. It draws attention to Allende’s and her publishers’ authorial strategies, her ‘strategies of persuasion’ and the specificity of the lives and contexts of British and Spanish reading publics. Equally, this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, this thesis contributes to the understanding of Allende’s cross-cultural popularity by situating readers at the centre
Ana Davis González. Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán Buenosayres, Berlín: Peter Lang, 2021
No full textBook Review: Isabel Abellán Chuecos sobre Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán Buenosayres (Peter Lang, 2021) Ana Davis González. 320 p. ISBN: 9783631854440.Reseña de Isabel Abellán Chuecos sobre Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán Buenosayres (Peter Lang, 2021) Ana Davis González. 320 p. ISBN: 9783631854440
Isabel Benavides de Davis (Lima, 1922 - 2010)
No full textSer curador de la exposición Del sanmarkos al retablo ayacuchano, el año 2003, me trajo muchas satisfacciones entre las que destaco sin dudarlo el haber conocido de cerca a los esposos John e Isabel Davis. Ambos, por haber desempeñado un rol decisivo a favor de la plástica popular del Perú afianzando su apreciación en Lima y difundiéndola en el extranjero, conservaban un conjunto de piezas notables, algunas de las cuales incluí en la muestra
Introduction — Unfamiliar families: investigating marriage and the family in the past
No full textBook synopsis: This volume addresses the current fashion for research on the family and domesticity in the past. It draws together work from various disciplines - historical, art-historical and literary - with their very different source materials and from a broad geographical area, including some countries - such as Croatia and Poland - which are not usually considered in standard text books on the medieval family. This volume considers the various affective relationships within and around the family and the manner in which those relationships were regulated and ritualized in more public arenas. Despite their disparate approaches and geographical spread, these essays share many thematic concerns; the ideologies which structured gender roles, inheritance rights, incest law and the ethics of domestic violence, for example, are all considered here. This collection originates from the Leeds IMC in 2001 when the special strand was entitled Domus and Familia and attracted huge participation. This book aims to reflect that richness and variety whilst contributing to an expanding area of historical enquiry
Ana Davis González. Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán Buenosayres. Berlín: Peter Lang, 2021
No full textReseña de Isabel Abellán Chuecos sobre Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán Buenosayres (Peter Lang, 2021) Ana Davis González. 320 p. ISBN: 978363185444
Introduction
No full textFama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages.
The work of Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama, both from the classical world and from the work of his contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids for literary authority. This volume tracks debates on fama which were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period.
This introduction offers a reading of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', establishing the grounds of discussion in the essays which follow in this volume
Writing masculinity in the later Middle Ages
No full textBook synopsis: Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living. She analyses how five major London writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries constructed the male self: William Langland, Thomas Usk, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve. These literary texts, while they have often been considered for what they say about the feminine role and identity, have rarely been thought of as evidence for masculinity; this study seeks to redress that imbalance. Looking again at the texts themselves, and their cultural contexts, Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain
A Discussion About Writing Fiction and Creative Prose with Isabel Huggan
No full textAward-winning Canadian author Isabel Huggan talks to students about writing, with a focus on fiction and creative non-fiction.Presentation for English 2905 (Introduction to Creative Writing), taught by Dr. Stepanie McKenzie
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