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From Insular Territory to Global Terrains of Consciousness: The Case of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures
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No full textThe Introduction provides an overview of the most recent development in spatial studies and develops the notion of 'scape' as a new conceptualiztion of spatiality as a material environment that enables human actions as well as inter-actions with objects and non-human agents in that environment
Women and the Country House: Enlightenment Critiques of Property Law and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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No full textThe Introduction makes a case for reuniting memory studies and affect studies: like twins separated at birth, these two vibrant fields of in the study of Renaissance literature and culture have existed alongside each other, in spite of their conceptual entanglement, since antiquity. An overview of recent developments in contemporary theorizations of memory and affect is followed by an investigation of how they might be connected in the historical frameworks of early modern faculty psychology, Galenic humoralism, and, to use a modern term, distributed cognition
Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts
No full textDie Frage nach den Rechten der Frau ist auch im 18. Jahrhundert nicht notwendig mit der feministischen Perspektive auf Frauenrechte, im Sinne einer Zuschreibung subjektiver Rechte, und damit auf eine juristische Egalität der Geschlechter verbunden. Vielmehr bedienen sich die verschiedensten Disziplinen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung der Gesetze auch dazu, die Ungleichheit, ja die Unterdrückung und Versklavung der Frau in Familie, Gesellschaft und Staat zu legitimieren, aufrechtzuerhalten oder gar zu verstärken
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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
Tele-pathos
No full textTaking inspiration from Elizabeth Bronfen’s trajectory in crossmapping the gestures of the cultural imaginary, the essay concentrates on the linkages between mourning and hysteria. Against the background also of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, we investigate the particular case of the studies of death and lamentation presented by Italian anthropologist Ernesto de Martino who, beginning in the 1950s, studied the funerary rituals of Southern Italy as incarnations of pathos formulas that recur from the most ancient times and in the most varied formats. The expressive resources of the specifically female mourners were documented in de Martino’s own figurative “Atlas”, and they form a poetic repertoire of bodily poses and movements that at one and the same time evoke the resistance of the hysteric to her alienation and recall the iconography of the Hollywood diva
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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